as you can see below, my gift to myself for my birfday was a replacement patio slab. very nice job my friend did for me. in one spot, i thickened the slab into a bit of a footing. bent some #4's around a 16" x 4" diameter pvc sleeve, as a blockout. above said blockout, i set a water valve neck and cover in the slab.
this is going to be a sleeve to drop in a hammock type swing stand for my bride.we have no decent tree limbs to hang a rope from.
my intent is to make the strut/column out of curved,bent, laminated wood. maybe some carbon reinforcement, maybe fiberglass.
need to do some statics computations on it, just want to know if anyone has opinions or advice. i want to stay away from a metal column, wouldn't be elegant. would just look like a basketball hoop without the backboard...
i'm a happy boy, and she will soon be an ecstatic girl
Does that slope meet ADA requirements?
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ouch, was that based on my age? nice one, made me laugh
Little late now but I would have probably put a gutter in there to turn any water from going into the building. The hammock posts should be supported by a cable or other device. The bending moment from a load suspended will be much more that your body weight and will tend to bend the posts, kind of like the loads on a wire fence corner post. Make a plug and cap to fill the socket when the post is not in place, keeps the trash out from a place hard to clean hole and make some provision for the socket to drain from the bottom. At least those are the things I would be doing if it were my project.
jud
Good job,
you're a better man than I.
The last concrete pour I did, the truck showed up an hour late. It was warm and the concrete went off as soon as it came out of the shoot.
Intended to be a basketball court.
Result was more akin to a lava flow.
Does teach one to keep the dribble low though. And I don't have pesky neighbor kids coming by to use it. Downside was when the wife tried taking the charge when I was driving the lane (at least that's what I thought she was doing). She couldn't sit for a month. Didn't talk to me for 2 months. Good character building incident I told her. I like to throw those comments out there when I feel the need to work on my reflexes.
Anyways, looks good.
Start researching steam bent laminates in the woodworking boards. You can get a nice shape and crazy strength from the proper setup.
Good luck, and put a mattress on the drive the first time you try out your new hammock.
Don't ask me why I recommend that one.
starting to really lean toward 1/4" marine plywood laminations. this will be thin enough to forego the steam...will post more later
AHHHH! Fresh concrete. Looks good!
Did you write your name & year in it?
> Little late now but I would have probably put a gutter in there to turn any water from going into the building. The hammock posts should be supported by a cable or other device. The bending moment from a load suspended will be much more that your body weight and will tend to bend the posts, kind of like the loads on a wire fence corner post. Make a plug and cap to fill the socket when the post is not in place, keeps the trash out from a place hard to clean hole and make some provision for the socket to drain from the bottom. At least those are the things I would be doing if it were my project.
> jud"""
actually, we did cast a swale to a new drain. slopes work well, watched the rain yesterday in it.
this will be a single post project, suspending a hammock style chair. my bride loves those things. the sleeve i used was from an old water valve neck and cover, therefore i am dealing with an approx. 6" diameter column below grade. will transition to curvilinear above grade.
hella lot of thought is going into this, good to know we are in agreement
not this one, but in the lead walk, my bride and i have handprints, crossing at the thumbs. kind of like the butterfly gesture
