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**Rain Man** · 10-11-2019, 10:10 PM

My wife and I drove by a house the other day that had a big fancy treehouse in the back. (It was on a corner lot so we saw it from the side, just in case you're wondering.)

It started a conversation about treehouses, and the requirements for one. You basically had to have...

...a kid who wants one, which is an easy requirement if there's a kid since all kids want one.

...a big tree with the right shape that's in an accessible location and not over a road or anything.

...generally a parent who is handy.

...a parent who actually has the time and interest to build a treehouse.

...probably a homeowning family that has the stability to afford a treehouse and live in the home long enough to justify the construction cost and effort.

We decided that this combination is rare, so treehouses are rare. My wife was also skeptical of my claim that nearly all boys want a treehouse growing up, as opposed to nearly all girls wanting a horse. But that's another issue.

Did you have a treehouse as a kid?

Poll coming as soon as I can nail in the boards.

oldman · 10-12-2019, 07:32 AM

My treehouse years were spent in western Kansas, so there's not a lot of trees big enough to have one. My buddies and I did find one that we could climb and sit on the branches, so we nailed a couple boards to the trunk and that was it.

tmax63 · 10-12-2019, 07:43 AM

Built a treehouse myself when I was a kid and later found an abandoned shed on our farm that I made a nice room in in one end. Used cardboard boxes flattened out for insulation and with a few candles or a very small campfire it would be nice and warm even when there was snow out. Went and looked at it later in life before it collapsed/demo'd and it didn't seem near as "cool" as it did at the time.

seclark · 10-12-2019, 07:49 AM

Not as a kid cause we lived in state parks. Not our trees.
Built a shitty one for my sons w a rope ladder.
Few years back helped my son build a real nice one for his kids, then he sold the house to two lesbians.
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**ChiTown** · 10-12-2019, 07:54 AM

We didn’t personally have one, but our neighbor behind us did and it was flipping amazing. He was an architect and build this thing to last forever. It was a double-decker, and there were many Summer nights spent inside that tree house as a kid. So many great memories and so much fun....

CrookedTrump · 10-12-2019, 08:07 AM

My wife found a kit she liked online but instead if ordering the kit (which was expensive) she went to Home Depot and ordered everything through them and planned building to that kits design. I had previously informed her that I wasn't up for at as I do and have done a lot of projects (additions, basement finishing, decks, pool decks, brick patios, retaining walls etc...) Like I said I just wasn't up for it. Anyways she figured she could do it herself and we had well over $1000 of lumber delivered. That was at least 3 years ago and what's left of the pile is out back behind the fence rotting. I did use some of the pressure treated lumber for a raised garden and a retaining wall but the rest just sits there. My youngest daughter is now 14 and isn't interested anymore. I knew when my wife bought the lumber it was never going to happen but is what it is....

patteeu · 10-12-2019, 01:18 PM

They seemed pretty common in the rural area I grew up in, but most of them were kid-built and probably weren't up to code.

seclark · 10-12-2019, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by patteeu

They seemed pretty common in the rural area I grew up in, but most of them were kid-built and probably weren't up to code.

I fell out of a couple.
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**MahiMike** · 10-12-2019, 01:51 PM

The nhood kids all got together and built a double-decker mega tree house. I built a little one at home. Both houses were built by kids no older than 14. That would never happen today.

patteeu · 10-12-2019, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by seclark

I fell out of a couple.
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I assume they had faulty railings and defective safety tethers. I saw many of those deathtraps in my youth.

**TimeForWasp** · 10-12-2019, 02:11 PM

Two of my sisters and I in our tree house platform. I was probably about 7 or 8 years old, so this would be approximately 1966, 1967

BWillie · 10-12-2019, 02:47 PM

My first girlfriend molested me in my treehouse.

**Rain Man** · 10-12-2019, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MahiMike

The nhood kids all got together and built a double-decker mega tree house. I built a little one at home. Both houses were built by kids no older than 14. That would never happen today.

Did they build it in someone's yard, or did they pick a park or vacant lot?

I knew a guy once who decided that he was going to build a castle. He started hauling small stones around to build the foundation, and then someone mentioned to him that he didn't own the land, so he abandoned it. He was probably 21 at the time and not the clearest thinker.

seclark · 10-12-2019, 04:28 PM

Bunch of us guys worked on a clubhouse that we were gonna move up in a tree, but that never came to be.
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**MahiMike** · 10-12-2019, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by CrookedTrump

My wife found a kit she liked online but instead if ordering the kit (which was expensive) she went to Home Depot and ordered everything through them and planned building to that kits design. I had previously informed her that I wasn't up for at as I do and have done a lot of projects (additions, basement finishing, decks, pool decks, brick patios, retaining walls etc...) Like I said I just wasn't up for it. Anyways she figured she could do it herself and we had well over $1000 of lumber delivered. That was at least 3 years ago and what's left of the pile is out back behind the fence rotting. I did use some of the pressure treated lumber for a raised garden and a retaining wall but the rest just sits there. My youngest daughter is now 14 and isn't interested anymore. I knew when my wife bought the lumber it was never going to happen but is what it is....

This is a sad story.

**MahiMike** · 10-12-2019, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Did they build it in someone's yard, or did they pick a park or vacant lot?

I knew a guy once who decided that he was going to build a castle. He started hauling small stones around to build the foundation, and then someone mentioned to him that he didn't own the land, so he abandoned it. He was probably 21 at the time and not the clearest thinker.

I meant to add it was out in the middle of the woods. So even the work to get to the spot was impressive.

View Poll Results: Did you have a treehouse as a kid?
Yes, and it was a palace. It had standard home elements such as electricity and a roof and furniture.	1	1.92%
Yes, and it was good shelter. It had a roof and walls, but no fancy stuff like lights.	16	30.77%
Yes, but it was more of a well-built tree platform, with no roof or anything. It was a nice platform.	12	23.08%
Yes, but it was really just some loose boards nailed into a rickety platform. Not someplace I'd hang out in.	7	13.46%
Kind of. I nailed boards into a tree to make a ladder so I could sit in the branches.	2	3.85%
No, but I really wanted one. I just couldn't check all the boxes to get one.	5	9.62%
No. I kind of wanted one, but not enough to put up a hard fight for it.	6	11.54%
No, and I didn't really want one. I was non-arboreal.	2	3.85%
No, and I never really thought about one. I lived in saguaro country or some such thing.	1	1.92%
I have a prehensile tail.	0	0%
Voters: 52. You may not vote on this poll

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10-12-2019, 07:32 AM	#16
oldman Curmudgeon Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: North by Northwest Casino cash: $5836784	My treehouse years were spent in western Kansas, so there's not a lot of trees big enough to have one. My buddies and I did find one that we could climb and sit on the branches, so we nailed a couple boards to the trunk and that was it.
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10-12-2019, 07:43 AM	#17
tmax63 Veteran Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Colorado Casino cash: $3260400	Built a treehouse myself when I was a kid and later found an abandoned shed on our farm that I made a nice room in in one end. Used cardboard boxes flattened out for insulation and with a few candles or a very small campfire it would be nice and warm even when there was snow out. Went and looked at it later in life before it collapsed/demo'd and it didn't seem near as "cool" as it did at the time. __________________ An armed member of society is a citizen, an unarmed member is a subject.
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10-12-2019, 07:49 AM	#18
seclark MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: nemo Casino cash: $1709900	Not as a kid cause we lived in state parks. Not our trees. Built a shitty one for my sons w a rope ladder. Few years back helped my son build a real nice one for his kids, then he sold the house to two lesbians. Sec The property not just the tree house __________________ "Mr. seclark. Wrong for gravy, wrong for jelly, wrong for biscuits." -rj "If every Planeteer who was disliked by another Planeteer stopped being a Planeteer we wouldn't have any Planeteers." -rj
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ChiTown Stroking to the SB Champs! Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Flatlands of Kansas Casino cash: $3313962	We didn’t personally have one, but our neighbor behind us did and it was flipping amazing. He was an architect and build this thing to last forever. It was a double-decker, and there were many Summer nights spent inside that tree house as a kid. So many great memories and so much fun.... __________________
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10-12-2019, 08:07 AM	#20
CrookedTrump Banned Join Date: Jan 2019 Casino cash: $10000400	My wife found a kit she liked online but instead if ordering the kit (which was expensive) she went to Home Depot and ordered everything through them and planned building to that kits design. I had previously informed her that I wasn't up for at as I do and have done a lot of projects (additions, basement finishing, decks, pool decks, brick patios, retaining walls etc...) Like I said I just wasn't up for it. Anyways she figured she could do it herself and we had well over $1000 of lumber delivered. That was at least 3 years ago and what's left of the pile is out back behind the fence rotting. I did use some of the pressure treated lumber for a raised garden and a retaining wall but the rest just sits there. My youngest daughter is now 14 and isn't interested anymore. I knew when my wife bought the lumber it was never going to happen but is what it is....
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10-12-2019, 04:28 PM	#28
seclark MVP Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: nemo Casino cash: $1709900	Bunch of us guys worked on a clubhouse that we were gonna move up in a tree, but that never came to be. Sec __________________ "Mr. seclark. Wrong for gravy, wrong for jelly, wrong for biscuits." -rj "If every Planeteer who was disliked by another Planeteer stopped being a Planeteer we wouldn't have any Planeteers." -rj
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