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<\/a><\/p>\nI’m opting for a half-round treehouse for several reasons:<\/p>\n
1. Cost\/wood — a lot of the wood I’m using is reclaimed from when my deck was built (they are 2×8’s used to form the cement retaining wall)<\/p>\n
2. Time. I want to get it done sooner than later.<\/p>\n
3. I don’t want to kill the tree. The diameter isn’t that large, and I’m afraid that sticking a ton of lag bolts into the tree will kill it if I go entirely around the tree. Even with lag bolts half way around the tree could potentially get damaged, but, I don’t think anything will happen since redwoods are *very* resilient. These redwoods have survived a fire that happened a long time ago (at least over 35 years ago, since the main house has been there that long. )<\/p>\n
I’m a little late at writing my blog entry..since I’ve already got a start on the treehouse, but the next steps were to fabricate the treehouse brackets. That’ll be the next entry..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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