A swing with your own hands for toddlers and adults

When constructing a household plot, be sure to provide a place where there will be a swing. With their own hands to build a few simple devices for children is simple enough. And with a great desire, you can do a more complex model for adults. Swing for the garden - this is the very thing that will allow you to occupy the kids for a long time, releasing you extra time for country chores. Let's look at several different options.

If you have several kids, then build them a swing with their own hands from the board and a small piece of logs. You will spend only a couple of hours, and children will bring pleasure for the whole summer season. Where to begin? Of course, with the preparation of the necessary material. You will need a piece of logs slightly larger than the width of the board. Also pick up some remains of the bar, a thick and fairly long board, nails, a hammer, the remnants of bright paint, brushes and connect your imagination.

We put a piece of logs on the ground. So that it does not roll, we nail along each side along the bar. It turns out a kind of legs, giving stability to our structure. Mark the middle of the log and lay on it a prepared board so that it hangs from both sides to the same distance. If at each end of this cross-piece sits on the child, then pushing from the ground with their feet, they can swing. To the board does not move out of the log, we step back from it on each side for two centimeters and nail the locks of small pieces of the bar.

It will also be necessary to make a handle on each side of the board so that the kids can hold onto it. For this, trim from a plastic hoop is perfect. We measure the size of the seat. We select a suitable piece of the hoop and use several long nails or screws to attach it to the board. It remains only to color our swing with our own hands in colorful colors, wait until it dries and swings with pleasure.

If your site has a large spreading tree with a suitable thick branch, then you are very lucky. To make a swing with your own hands, you only need a comfortable seat plate and a strong rope. Suitable size and thickness of the board is well polished on all sides and painted in a bright color. On both sides, drill one hole for a thick rope or two for a thin cable. We measure two pieces of rope of the required length. We put one end into the hole and make a large knot that will hold the seat. With the other length of the rope do the same. Now we choose a branch safe for the swing and tie both ropes to it.

If you have a thin, but strong rope, then you need to prepare pieces twice as long. Picking up a convenient branch, we throw a piece of cable through it and align the ends. Each end of the cable is threaded into the drilled hole in the seat and we tie them together under the board. The same procedure is carried out with the second piece of cable. So that they do not rub over the branch when rocking, we put on them a piece from the bicycle tire. Having thrown a cable through a branch, and having equalized the ends, we advance a piece of the tire so that it was located on a branch. In that case, your mount will slide over the rubber, and not the branch, which will increase the service life of the swing.

Having an automobile tire on the site, you can make a swing for your own dacha . You need a cable or a strong chain. In this version, instead of wooden seating, we will use an unnecessary tire. We hang it in the same way to a thick and reliable tree branch. Kids can sit on such a seat for several people, thrusting his feet into the central hole. And the older guys can comfortably sit reclining.

Be sure to make a swing in the children's corner on the backyard. Then you can not worry about the leisure of children. They will be happy to entertain you under supervision, and not to seek adventures on the street.