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Big, Bad Treehouse

Bay Arean said:
... right by the zipline to the lake exit.
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I like this whole zipline to the lake concept as much as anybody except for two things:

1) I don't own the lakefront.
2) You'd hit a whole bunch of trees between here and there. :laughing


Still, the zipline thing has possibilities. The current zipline is close to the ground and can be ridden without a harness. You straddle a seat and hang on. If you fall off, you'd get jacked up, but wouldn't die. From this platform, the height would get really serious, really fast. If it ever happens, the kids will be quite a bit older. :)
 
tzrider said:
I like this whole zipline to the lake concept as much as anybody except for two things:

1) I don't own the lakefront.
It could stop at your property line, allowing the rider's trajectory to carry him/her to the lake


2) You'd hit a whole bunch of trees between here and there.
Need to borrow a chainsaw? :teeth


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Rhetorical question, good sir. I figure you not only have every power tool that I do, but also know how to use them better than I. I've come to terms with it.
 
tzrider said:
Yeah, I'm the only guy I know who not only has a drawknife but uses it. :laughing
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I have a spokeshave but sadly, my bike has mag wheels.

Really. Nyuk. I used to work at the Woodsmith Store in Berkeley and we had a lot of woodworking tools....
 
A bit of a side track, but the draw knife was for doing things like this:

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The logs on this bed are skip peeled, which is most easily done with a draw knife.
 
Child abuse! Fat Tire?? Can't you give them something good?
 
So much win here. Love the bed, nicely done!

Man, if I was a little kid in yer family, I'd have the Daniel Boone thing down. But I don't know if kids even know about him anymore...That's what I was lovin' about the treehouse, or what I'd call a fort. Everything was a fort. We had a hollowed out clay and brush lean-to above Canyon Way in Martinez that was a fort. We had a clearing of bamboo down by the creek (behind Muir House and before Highway 4 freeway was built) that was a fort.
A refrigerator box could be a fort. There was a sandstone cave above the tunnel that leads to the Alhambra Ave. trestle. We used it as a fort, but called it Hobo's Cave, just like in Tom Sawyer.
As for the treehouse, you just might have to work in some crenellations or arrow holes into the sidewalls for your sons' benefit. Danl Boone, Robin Hood, whomever, it's all there, baby. Make it defensible to repel intruders.
 
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yeah...him and his boys sleep in that thing for what...a week?
 
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