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| OFWW <OFWW@who.me>: Sep 27 11:55PM -0700 On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 02:41:13 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D." >Just to update this thread, we completed the 250 feet of steel cabling >today by lashing the two ends together using these cable clamps: > https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2942/15372056651_7a845164f7_c.jpg If you installed these without lock washers I would recommend you go back up and at least put nylock nuts as safety nuts. Heating and cooling will cause those nuts to walk off the u-bolts. >As you can imagine, we wear harnesses and we have static lines hanging >from all the trees, as you'd be amazed how many times you need them: > https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2945/15375216105_9961137c64_b.jpg I hate ladders like these, seen the two by's pull off after a short while especially if your shouldering a load going up or down. The rungs should be in notches. Hope no one or nothing falls. |
| "Danny D." <dannydiamico@gmail.com>: Sep 28 02:41AM Just to update this thread, we completed the 250 feet of steel cabling today by lashing the two ends together using these cable clamps: https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2942/15372056651_7a845164f7_c.jpg To keep the cables from cutting into the trees, and to allow the trees to grow outward, we put up a series of these wooden standoff blocks: https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2945/15188529430_6294070f9b_b.jpg You'll notice that we doubled the cables as they wrapped around the trees so that the strength is always two time 14,000 pounds, at all times: https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2944/15188634078_2b3de04150_c.jpg Here, you can see the two cables, hanging as two catenaries, from which we will hand the suspension bridge: https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2943/15188529300_bbedf3ba0c_c.jpg We're starting to get used to working in the heights, as you can see by this photo of my neighbor coming down from disentangling the lines: https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3901/15188714847_e77461b64d_c.jpg As you can imagine, we wear harnesses and we have static lines hanging from all the trees, as you'd be amazed how many times you need them: https://c3.staticflickr.com/3/2945/15375216105_9961137c64_b.jpg In fact, my unenviable job today was to stand at the TOP of this ladder and position the cables, which I did with two hands on the cables so I had to be wearing a harness or I would have fallen off in no time: https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3870/15188634228_37f45d19e2_b.jpg I'll let you know when we drill the redwoods to put in the tree bolts, which will anchor the house; but first, we're working on the suspension bridge (you can see our cargo netting in some of the pictures above). Tomorrow we're putting up WiFi on a neighbor's roof, so we wont' be working on the treehouse until next week. |
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