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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.

**Rain Man** · 10-12-2019, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by seclark

Bunch of us guys worked on a clubhouse that we were gonna move up in a tree, but that never came to be.
Sec

I'm not sure that was a viable plan anyway, if it makes you feel better.

**Rain Man** · 10-12-2019, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by seclark

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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The property not just the tree house

I bet they immediately took down the "No gurlz allowed" sign off the treehouse door.

threebag · 10-12-2019, 04:45 PM

We had a multi level multi tree palace with lookouts

**hometeam** · 10-12-2019, 05:39 PM

Me and my cousin built it on my grandparents land. years later we would sneak out and use it to smoke pot at thanksgiving. It was a strong platform, with railings, no roof.

KurtCobain · 10-12-2019, 05:46 PM

I stayed a couple of nights in someone's shitty treehouse.

Caseykid · 10-12-2019, 06:57 PM

Lived on 5 acres in Wyandotte county. I built a two story walled tree house. You accessed the second story thru a hatch in the roof of the first floor. Spent most of my time chasing other neighborhood kids out of it. Had some valuable "reading" material in it.

**Buehler445** · 10-12-2019, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by oldman

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.

Where did you grow up old man?

Hog's Gone Fishin · 10-12-2019, 07:23 PM

Now they call them tree stands

**Rain Man** · 10-12-2019, 07:40 PM

I'm learning in this thread that there's a strong connection between treehouses and pornography.

**Buehler445** · 10-12-2019, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I'm learning in this thread that there's a strong connection between treehouses and pornography.

Your scope is incorrect. The real correlation is between adolescent boys and pornography.

threebag · 10-12-2019, 08:28 PM

Yeah we kept our reading material in the fort we had built by the river

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, 05:39 PM	#34
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10-12-2019, 06:57 PM	#36
Caseykid Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oklahoma City,Oklahoma Casino cash: $10004905	Lived on 5 acres in Wyandotte county. I built a two story walled tree house. You accessed the second story thru a hatch in the roof of the first floor. Spent most of my time chasing other neighborhood kids out of it. Had some valuable "reading" material in it.
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10-12-2019, 08:28 PM	#41
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