Large! Garden! Trampolines!

After spending the think end of 4 hours today assembling a 12 foot example of the marque.

Having to undo and redo several steps because hyroglyphic destructions that would, I suggest challenge anyone has brought me to the following conclusion.

There must be a special place reserved in hell for people to assemble the aforementioned.

The morning shift would be the old Chromoplastic SKS mudguards with the really knadgery stay bolts and a really dull junior hack saw to cut the stays…

Exclamation! Marks! not required; they’re reserved for politics threads.

0/10 for attempted spelling of hieroglyphics.

Walks away, shaking head and muttering.

If you think assembling one is a crappy task, consider the misery of packing one away, putting it into storage for 18months and then reassembling it from a mass of hastily zip tied together bent scaffolding poles and freezer bags full of random nuts and bolts.  Oh and it needs a new safety net, pads and bed.

I don’t know what party they’re in, but I’m not voting for them.

I hate them.
My boys however played on it for years.
Enjoy!

If you think assembling one is a crappy task, consider the misery of packing one away,

Or being the unfortunate people next door who’ve just seen the tone of the neighbourhood lowered by 90%.

Sunken trampolines avoid about 80% of the swearing, and if you go big enough there’s an excuse to rent a digger

Here’s hoping you’ve tethered it down considering the storms that are coming this weekend 🤣

Oh and it needs a new safety net, pads and bed.

I have spares from our storm damaged trampoline.

Recently replaced it with this, which was actually quite fun to erect

munrobiker

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Or being the unfortunate people next door who’ve just seen the tone of the neighbourhood lowered by 90%.

Remiss of me, curmudgeonly old giffers waiting for your half day out with the undertaker. 😋👌

The only ‘hard’ bit is attaching the mat itself to the springs – do that properly and it’s easy (veteran of two trampoline builds).

Absolute bastards. Built ours right at the start of the first lockdown. Eldest is about to land her first proper full summersault. Worth every single sweary second assembling the bastard.

We had a Plum trampoline, don’t remember to much hassle apart from connecting the last few springs. Our kids had many hours of fun on it. And our neighbours loved watching them, helps if they can do somersaults and twists.

Large! Garden! Trampolines!

I heard that they are too release a second album shortly.

I just there was a company that sold them pre-rusted and a bit broken and mouldy. It’d save all the hassle people seem to have getting them conditioned properly before installing them as a permanent feature at the bottom of their garden.

My boys however played on it for years

We rented a holiday home for a week near Carrbridge when our boys were small. It’s garden was on a steep bank to the main road, but at the back there was a huge trampoline. The boys spent hours every evening on that thing. One of the few times I remember them being utterly happy in each other’s company, with no bickering etc at all. Brilliant memories of children just being children.

I! Didn’t! Have! To! Build! It! Though! 😉

@reeksy – what is that trampoline?

It’s a Vuly Thunder(?) xl

You can see why every FB Marketplace ad for these says ‘buyer to dismantle’! 🙂

You can see why every FB Marketplace ad for these says ‘buyer to dismantle’!

I’ve family giving one away at the moment. Needs new mats. Damaged net. old tramp surface. Mouldy. Rusty. Needs dismantling. Must be collected this week.

FFS

I would say it is time well spent, my kids used to love ours when they were younger. They must have used it for several hundred hours over its lifetime. When their friends came over the first thing they would do it head for the trampoline, we would often have 8 or more kids all bouncing together. How we didn’t get a trip to A&E was a mystery! I am pretty sure they actually slept on it a few times in the summer.

Weird punctuation, are you new here OP?

At one point, to avoid conflicts, we had two in the garden. We don’t really have a big enough garden for two 12′ trampolines, but that was preferable to the arguments.

The boss suggested we might get rid of the remaining one this year, she was firmly put straight by my eldest (almost 15).

They’re great, and we’ve had barely any incidents with them…

I got  a free”buyer to dismantle” one off FB marketplace. OMG. Must have been an hour in the mud and rain taking that thing apart. I was knackered. Keeps the kids exercised but I’m not sure the neighbours like the screaming noises they seem to make all the time.

I tip I found when I took ours apart and no longer had the spring fitting tool, a mini paint roller does a good job at unhooking and re-hooking the springs. Once those are off it is pretty easy to take down.

I don’t know what party they’re in, but I’m not voting for them.

I don’t know, they’re saying the UK can bounce back from recession. And there’s a lot of demand for a spring election.

thegeneralist

Free Member

Weird punctuation, are you new here OP?

Nah, was fishing for see you next Tuesdays from pointless political threads.

Thanks for coming.😂

I’ve family giving one away at the moment. Needs new mats. Damaged net. old tramp surface. Mouldy. Rusty. Needs dismantling. Must be collected this week.

Next door dismantled theirs and took it to the Household Waste Recycling Site, didn’t consider it worth selling as it was in the quoted condition.

Another vote for loving trampolines – we got our kids their first one when they were about 5 (IIRC) and we had many hours all playing on it together. That gave up the ghost three years ago so we got another when the girls were 12 – it still gets used lots (especially at the beginning of the year when I put the nets and stuff back on after winter). They also have a ‘sprinkler’ on it which they love on really hot days. Last summer, at their birthday party, we had about twenty 14 yr old girls all playing on it at the same time with the water spraying and lots of washing up liquid 🙂 somehow we managed to avoid major injury.

Trampoline sprinkler…
https://www.vinsani.com/vinsani-trampoline-sprinkler-outdoor-waterpark-hose-water-sprayer-trampoline-accessories-for-summer-water-fun/

Someone is giving one away about half a mile away from me. Am I a fool for considering trying to get 2 of us to carry / roll it down the road?

Our boys would also just hang out on it with their mates like a comfy den.

Someone is giving one away about half a mile away from me. Am I a fool for considering trying to get 2 of us to carry / roll it down the road?

Just wait for the wind to be in the right direction, it will roll just nicely into a neighbours garden…

Maybe not this weekend.👌