Playground stuff?

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Has anyone here made their kids playground equipment? (Slide, merry go 'round, teeter totter, etc)  I know it's usually cheaper to buy, but don't have the option where I live.  I figured if there's anywhere that someone's made their own steel playground stuff, it'd be here.  I'm really looking for dimensions/drawings.  I can come pretty close guessing I think, but if someone happened to already have them...Thanks!
Reply:I think a member '' BLACKBART '' did some. Try a PM to him.
Reply:Yea, BlackBart did. There was another guy too.But Google shopoutfitters, they have some pretty cool ideas.Lincoln SA 200Esab Caddy 160Thermal Arc 201TSMiller Dialarc HFI don't like making plans for the day because then the word "premeditated" gets thrown around the courtroom....
Reply:There have been a few diggers made for kids as well to play on here.http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...Sandbox-Diggerhttp://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...Sandbox-Diggerhttp://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...sandbox-diggerSteel play ground equipment used to be the norm when I was growing up, but much of it has been long gone. Monkey bars, merry go rounds, teeter totters and so on, especially made of steel are often considered to hazardous around kids today sadly. Too many possible pinch points and just keep in mind that steel is pretty unyielding and kids running around who trip and fall against it will come out on the loosing end. If you want ideas a google images search will probably bring up plenty of the old play ground equipment made of steel to use for ideas. I thing one of the old steel sets of monkey bars would make a great project for some one looking to learn say tube fitting with all the pipe intersections..No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! Ronald Reagan
Reply:Originally Posted by DSWThere have been a few diggers made for kids as well to play on here.http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...Sandbox-Diggerhttp://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...Sandbox-Diggerhttp://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php...sandbox-diggerSteel play ground equipment used to be the norm when I was growing up, but much of it has been long gone. Monkey bars, merry go rounds, teeter totters and so on, especially made of steel are often considered to hazardous around kids today sadly. Too many possible pinch points and just keep in mind that steel is pretty unyielding and kids running around who trip and fall against it will come out on the loosing end. If you want ideas a google images search will probably bring up plenty of the old play ground equipment made of steel to use for ideas. I thing one of the old steel sets of monkey bars would make a great project for some one looking to learn say tube fitting with all the pipe intersections.
Reply:I have built many commercial and home playgrounds.  If you are building one for home use, daycare use, or commercial use it makes a huge difference.  CPSC and ASTM both have free publications of standards and measurements for both styles.  I usually just go to a park and measure what I want to copy.  Many schools and cities are getting rid of some of the fun stuff, it's usually easy to find.  I buy all my supplies from SII Child Works, but I am a dealer, I don't know if you can buy personally or not.  Commercial equipment is very expensive, if you have the talent, it is well worth your time to make it. Give me an idea of what your goals are and I will try to help. The biggest challange today, commercially, is making something that meets ASTM, CPSC, ADA codes and still make it fun.  Merry go rounds have hydraulic governors now, very few teeter-totters.  Slides are 30 degrees and slow. Almost nothing is steel anymore. Where do you live?Last edited by blackbart; 12-29-2014 at 11:00 PM.
Reply:I built some huge tire swings with backhoe tires.  I was going to make them into bumper swings until I saw the power and momentum that one created.  When it hit a tree, everyone flew off. Still have one at my house, but no where else. Originally Posted by William McCormickhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/ny...park.html?_r=0I guy just died in Manhattan, he was shadow boxing with a plastic swing, made to look like a tire. It acted like a dead blow hammer and killed him. Most people never learned real physics so they assume the metal hammer is more deadly then the plastic hammer, or even worse rawhide mallet.                       Sincerely,                            William McCormick
Reply:I'd look into building a roller coaster... likely safer than a teeter totter.
Reply:a friend of mine built some play ground equipment,  many years ago, but to day I would not even think about doing  it for liability purposes.   one gave him some ideas of the things we made as self powered two seat "merry go round",  had the seat and a hand/foot bar that pivoted and as one pumped it,  there was a arm on the center that would make it turn, but if some one walked in to that thing when moving some one was going to get hurt, and the kids could really get that thing moving.he made a some of spring loaded animal rides, (used a old compressor tank or bubble tank for the body and some thing for a head and foot pegs, on a coil spring, and some swings and some other things I do not remember them all,  made a rope for hand over hand  and crawling on, seem like a few other things as well,
Reply:fohire, I am going to have to build that one fore my house!
Reply:I say the hell with safety, the kids to day are soft soft I tell you , It was the survival of the fittest.  and if you couldn't keep up you were left behind !! But that walk to school was the real bummer up hill both ways and snow up  to my armpits all year long!!!  my swing was a 2x6 hung by a chain . And when you were sent a$$ over teakettle a few times you didn't walk up to some one swinging. some how we learned or knew by instinct not to put a climbing rope around are neck. or slide down a rope  with bare hands. The object lesson learned on the merry go round was to get it going as fast as possible and be the last one still on it (The WINNER).  I go stitches every year  from one miss adventure or another ,[I looked like a hockey play when I got out of grammar school. (aint much better now). We learned about Physics the hard way , gravity was a bitch !Last edited by gxbxc; 12-30-2014 at 11:53 PM.
Reply:In a lawsuit free world, yes.  But if you're building for the public the codes are pretty rediculus. Also, of course, the ASTM and CPSC codes don't always match.  Also california has their own version of the ADA which conflicts with the other 49 states ADA rules.  Inspection is voluntary, but would be used as the standard in a lawsuit.