{"id":6359,"date":"2018-05-19T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T13:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wienoldusa.com\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:24:58","slug":"last-minute-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wienoldusa.com\/?p=6359","title":{"rendered":"Last Minute Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a couple days to go before Ryder\u2019s birthday party and I discovered that the tree that hit<\/a> the tree house<\/a> did more damage than I had previously thought. It broke one of the primary support members right in the middle which completely compromised the stability of the platform. I had to fix this before all the kids this weekend would pile on to it.<\/p>\n

From the looks of it, I chose the wood poorly for two reasons. 1) it was undersized. It should have been an \u00a02×10 or 2×12 to start with. 2) I chose a piece of lumber that had an elliptical \u00a0knot right in the middle of it. So with a good impact on the deck and the support bean gave way at the weak spot, thankfully the facia board held things together so I didn\u2019t lose \u00a0the whole platform.<\/p>\n

With only a day to spare, I was out in the rain attempting to weave a new much larger and heavier (this one weighs close to 150lbs) beam into place. I had to notch the slide support where it contoured the original, temporarily support the deck while I removed the broken beam and devise a way of hoisting the new one into place. My redneck engineering degree paid off and I\u2019m confident this new system will support any and all kids that venture onto Ryder\u2019s treehouse for years to come.<\/p>\n