Tree house

[arborworks1]

Anybody ever built a treehouse, fully supported, Big enough for a few adults to chill in?

 

[Dave Shepard]

I've always wanted to. I've got a couple of books on tree houses. There are even companies that do nothing but design and build tree houses. Can't imagine the permitting BS involved in that.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Fully supported? How could it not be otherwise?

 

[arborworks1]

Well I have seen some that are propped up with 4x4 posts. Some have actually been playhouses that were just built around a tree and labeled a treehouse.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I feel those don't really count as treehouses.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Most here are building them around the tree and supported by posts instead of the tree. Better for the tree IMO...

 

[brendonv]

I've always wanted to build on in a nice oak we have here. When I have my own place I'll def. build one, kinda like a "love shack" .

I've got this book call ironically "the treehouse book" by Nelson and Larkin. Houses in there are crazy.

I was thinking through bolts and have the frame supported by chains, only impact to the tree is the bolts, and the house would move with the tree too.

 

[arborworks1]

Bolts were my thought. Maybe rope to have a little play and make things interesting in the house. Replace every couple of years.

 

[sotc]

ive taken a few down

 

[sawinredneck]

Lag screws and bolts, then cable supports angularly to support the outer edges?

 

[tntree]

Lag screws and bolts, then cable supports angularly to support the outer edges?

Through bolts with links to the platform

 

[No_Bivy]

tree boat or portaledge

 

[lumberjack]

Click here to watch Tre-house

 

[Burnham]

Down Willie's way in southwestern Oregon.

http://www.treehouses.com/

And on the other side of the country.

http://www.thelivingtreehouse.com/

 

[pantheraba]

I built this in 1990...it's still there, needs some restoration.

 

[Mr. Sir]

That's cool! And it looks like the kids love it.

 

[Tucker943]

Tried building one as a kid. Climbed about 20 feet up some kind of tree with a set of lopping shears to cut some small branches out of my way. I fell face first out of the tree and landed with the loppers in my chin. Went into shock and got whisked away to the ER for stitches.

 

[sawinredneck]

Tried building one as a kid. Climbed about 20 feet up some kind of tree with a set of lopping shears to cut some small branches out of my way. I fell face first out of the tree and landed with the loppers in my chin. Went into shock and got whisked away to the ER for stitches.

Speechless!

 

[MasterBlaster]

When I was 16, my brother and I built one to have a place to hang out and party. It was most excellent, two storied... sorta. They were building some low income state housing down the street, so we stole everything we needed, including a sink. We had some amazing parties in that thing, along with just having a cool place to hang out. We had electricity and (sorta) running water and everything. It's demise was when a despondent friend came over as basically (we were doing that stoopid shit back then) killed himself huffing Pam. I was in Navy boot camp when that went down.

I did a tree job a while back that was close to where all that went down. I checked it out to see if I could find any evidence of the original treehouse, but there wasn't a thing to be found. Nature had claimed back everything. The tree, a split trunk Hackberry, was still standing.

All in all, it was a pretty damned cool TH. At one point we had a dozen or so people partying, jamming to Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. I didn't have a camera back then.