Archive for May, 2009

I’m still working on it, but here’s a short video of some of it.

Some pictures of a handlebar I last built. I prefer making the T run vertical; it avoids having the horizontal tube collect water.

The thing is light!

I want to cut down on the environmental impact for our wedding. So, I ordered biodegradable plates, cups and silverware from http://letsgogreen.biz/- I’ll find out how long they really take to biodegrade as I plan on composting them myself.

[EDIT: spelling of greening actually has a r in it]

Well! Today I finished the base platform. This is all I’m planning on doing for the wedding. Well, this and adding stairs. Sometime after honeymoon I will turn it into a real treehouse with walls and a roof. It turned out pretty neat, but a little shaky in the horizontal plane. I had let the brackets cool by themselves and didn’t harden them by quenching in water (or oil); I think this made them stay slightly flexible, which I thought would be a good thing. In addition, the half-circle design isn’t as strong as a complete circle which would prevent most lateral movement in the horizontal plane.

Here’s a sneak peek of the finished platform. I’ll hopefully write a blog entry on the making of it, and include some of the framing details.