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Taylor was our hangman...

by David and Tim Bayly on September 19, 2011 - 5:12am

Swings Saturday, Taylor climbed our American Elm tree and hung these two tire swings while Doug and I and Doug's sons, Jonathan, Nathan, and Josiah, helped as we could. Bayly watched. The rope is hemp, three quarters inch with a working load of eight-hundred plus pounds, the chain is rated for fifteen hundred, and all the hardware over seven hundred, so bring your piano--he can have a ride.

Two more swings wait to be hung, but they'll be in different trees and hung much lower. We have a swing for infants and another normal two-rope kind so we'll not need Taylor to hang them. Then next Spring we hope to hang a hammock and...

Tire-swing war absolutely will be permitted.

Thank you Taylor and Doug and Jonathan and Nathan and Josiah and Heather! (TB)

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Submitted by Daniel Meyer on September 19, 2011 - 10:33am

>>Tire-swing war absolutely will be permitted.

Reminds me of a family camping trip when I was a boy. My Dad found a park in a small town where there was an old-fashioned maypole, the kind without the safety bar preventing this kind of thing, and we each took a chain and wound up, my Dad first, then my mom, all the way down to my littlest sister, then we started around, the littler ones accelerating as their chains unwound off the others' till wheee! My littlest sister went flying around the top. Ever since, I've been watching for one of those maypoles. We'll build playground equipment like that again some day, I look forward to it.

Submitted by Emily Foster on September 19, 2011 - 11:32am

If it wasn't wet & gloomy out, I'd have to bring my boys over for a "test-swing."

Submitted by rob on September 24, 2011 - 7:02am

And what weight is the tree-limb rated for?

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