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TinyEvel
10-20-2009, 09:41 AM
:eek:

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Scorp
10-20-2009, 09:51 AM
At the end you hear a scream......a thud......and the camera goes black.

A staircase made from 2x4's. F*ck that!
Mr. Laz
10-20-2009, 09:57 AM
Hell no
thebrad84
10-20-2009, 10:02 AM
Holy $&#%! I'm afraid of heights and, I kid you not, it made me nervous watching that. That guy is insane.
Brock
10-20-2009, 10:02 AM
Made my palms sweat.
kc rush
10-20-2009, 10:10 AM
I like the concept, but the engineering is scary. The ladder and platform beginning at 3:12 is the worst of it.
ClevelandBronco
10-20-2009, 10:21 AM
I wonder what the actuarial department at his life insurance company would have to say about this.
BY1401
10-20-2009, 10:23 AM
I like the concept, but the engineering is scary. The ladder and platform beginning at 3:12 is the worst of it.

What engineering?
Chief Pote
10-20-2009, 10:24 AM
At the end you year a scream......a thud......and the camera goes black.

A staircase made from 2x4's. F*ck that!


Oh great...I watch the entire video and nothing. Like watching for a train wreck and nothing.
InChiefsHeaven
10-20-2009, 10:27 AM
That's pretty friggin cool. I'm not an engineer, but that looked remarkably sturdy to me.

...Swiss Family Robinson eat yer heart out...
MOhillbilly
10-20-2009, 10:31 AM
got a deer stand thats 80ish ft up. you gotta use a ladder i nailed to the tree for the first part, then its step climbers to the top. I get up there and get drunk and shit. its fun, you can shoot tree rats from 4 ft away.
Phobia
10-20-2009, 10:33 AM
I have no problem with the 2x4's - what do you think your staircase at home is made out of? I have a problem with the 2x4's being nailed into a living thing. When that tree grows, those 2x4's are gonna shift. The staircase will remain viable for a year or two. Beyond that, it's completely unsafe.
rockymtnchief
10-20-2009, 10:37 AM
Oh hell no! Trees sway in the wind, thereby loosening whatever kind of fasteners he used. 20 feet is about as high as I'd go after a few months.
Old Dog
10-20-2009, 10:37 AM
You couldn't pay me enough to climb that thing.
BY1401
10-20-2009, 10:51 AM
THIS (http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/stairway_photo.htm) is how you build a spiral staircase around a big tree.

The staiway in the video is fail just waiting to happen.
Frazod
10-20-2009, 11:03 AM
THIS (http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/stairway_photo.htm) is how you build a spiral staircase around a big tree.

The staiway in the video is fail just waiting to happen.

This entire thread is to fear of heights what Jaws was to fear of things in the water. :eek:
rockymtnchief
10-20-2009, 11:05 AM
THIS (http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/stairway_photo.htm) is how you build a spiral staircase around a big tree.


I'd climb that one!
Inspector
10-20-2009, 12:21 PM
In a way, this is really a stairway to heaven.
GoHuge
10-20-2009, 01:09 PM
In a way, this is really a stairway to heaven.I love heights and that looks like alot of fun, but if that platform is heaven I'll pass. Give me a bottle of Patron, two cans of whip cream, and a couple of Vivid girls instead.

That old dude has way too much free time on his hands along with a serious insurance liability. As a hunter I was thinking "well you won't have to worry about deer seeing you" that is until it showed the shitty house and parking lot below. To each his own I guess :bong:?
CoMoChief
10-20-2009, 01:13 PM
THIS (http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/stairway_photo.htm) is how you build a spiral staircase around a big tree.

The staiway in the video is fail just waiting to happen.

Fuck that bridge.
BY1401
10-20-2009, 03:21 PM
**** that bridge.

I'd have sex on it.
blazzin311
10-20-2009, 03:45 PM
I have no problem with the 2x4's - what do you think your staircase at home is made out of? I have a problem with the 2x4's being nailed into a living thing. When that tree grows, those 2x4's are gonna shift. The staircase will remain viable for a year or two. Beyond that, it's completely unsafe.

Safe or not, something tells me that tree is about done growing. Hell that damn thing is 75 feet. tall. It's huge.
SAUTO
10-20-2009, 03:56 PM
Safe or not, something tells me that tree is about done growing. Hell that damn thing is 75 feet. tall. It's huge.

:spock: are you serious? :shake: i dont think a living thing will quit growing unless it dies
GoHuge
10-20-2009, 04:26 PM
:spock: are you serious? :shake: i dont think a living thing will quit growing unless it diesUnless it's "full grown." That term does have a meaning and it's fairly specific. Done growing, fully developed, adult, mature, etc........

Using your logic by the time people are 75 they should be 16-20 ft tall :rolleyes:.
crispystl
10-20-2009, 06:53 PM
THIS (http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/stairway_photo.htm) is how you build a spiral staircase around a big tree.

The staiway in the video is fail just waiting to happen.

Meh the bridge is ghey
petegz28
10-20-2009, 07:03 PM
gotta give the fucker an A for effort if anything
'Hamas' Jenkins
10-20-2009, 07:12 PM
That is one dumb cocksucker.
petegz28
10-20-2009, 07:30 PM
That is one dumb one who sucks the penis.

Phobia would have done a much cleaner and sturdy job! :D
Shaid
10-20-2009, 10:08 PM
THIS (http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/stairway_photo.htm) is how you build a spiral staircase around a big tree.

The staiway in the video is fail just waiting to happen.

Reminds me of last Saturday.

http://www.cedarcreektreehouse.com/images/June2004-27.jpg
Saccopoo
10-20-2009, 10:10 PM
There's nine minutes of my life that I won't be wasting.