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My wife follows the credo “If if it's free it's for me” and so I was dispatched to go pick up a trampoline the other day. It needs a new mat and some springs. Yesterday I came home in the middle of the day to assemble the frame for measurements to order a new mat, planning to disassemble it before our daughter came home from school and keep it a surprise. Well that didn't happen and she discovered it.
“Dad, you're building me a trampoline!” she exclaimed. I of course answered “no dear, I'm building a sprinkler”
She wasn't buying what I was selling
I tried to show her the slots where the springs go to say that's where the water sprinkles out, and that put a little doubt in her mind
So she decided whatever it is it's also a riding arena.
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Yea I don't think she fell for the sprinkler bit either, I knew it wouldn't work as it was leaving my lips but it was all I could come up with on the spur of the moment
I built that horse for Christmas when she was two or three.
Luckily there is a site http://www.funspot.com that makes mats and pads to order, this thing was made by Roadmaster out of Ogdon, Utah, no longer in business. It's not a 12' or a 13', it's 12'9″, a real oddball. I could have bought a new one for not much more than what it's taking to restore this one, but a new cheap one is just that, cheap. These folks in Georgia take pride in their work and make high quality stuff. Besides I want to give my money from one family owned business to another in the good ol USA.
I now know more about trampolines than I ever knew existed
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Those things look to me like a great way to kill old joints.
Or old idiots
Why didn't you use your new fangled forks to move this Eric?
How many times did you run over the ring before you got the rope “just right”
Nice job. Looks like it should last a couple years at least.
Jack
People are hilarious...
I'm supposed to choose and be in one of the 2 parties. And NEITHER is worth a damn! -
Acually Jack I put the thing together where it was upside down. The frame was a little tweaked and that was the only way to get the legs slid in. The bucket and rope were used to turn it right side up. After that picture I put a 2×4 under the frame, lowered the bucket, re-tied the rope and did it again. The only way I could figure to flip it by myself. Now that you mention it the forks would have given me more height
And I did try it out. 15 seconds was enough to tell it was good to go and that I have no business being on it -
Well you are a good father.
You 'load tested” it to insured it would safely hold your daughter. NOT! I'm thinking you are more like the rest of us…. just couldn't resist climbing up there.
Jack
People are hilarious...
I'm supposed to choose and be in one of the 2 parties. And NEITHER is worth a damn!
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Did you make the horse? Nice! Daughter is a cutie! 
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