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that looks cool , but that'll cut through your boards in about 3 years.
You know you could’ve just undid the eye bolt hook everything together and feed it back through the post hole and then tighten with the nut.
dafuq am i doing here
Your title is misleading!
Just put the eye of the cable on the spring, and draw on the leftover cable with pliers to tension the spring, then fasten the clamps around the cable. 🙂
This is a brilliant series of videos – I totally enjoyed watching these – I'm renovating a house (as in back to shell) and doing a number of trades myself. Anyway – I just wanted to chime in.
I love the wire cable guard. Now I see the point about the spring breaking. But as addressed in a follow up video, the cable would not be able to come out completely as the splice clamp would hit the post. If it was me, I would probably add an extra clamp right by that next post just as a belt and braces so slippage would be near zero if the pring broke. But it's clear the spring works. I was also wondering (like some other posters) if there would be enough spring in the cable itself, combined with a tensioning tie to do the same. Maybe.
But there's a negative I can see with that too. You clearly have extremes of temperature over there and if that wire was tight in summer, how much would it contract in winter and how much tension would it generate? Well, based on the thermal expansion coefficients, about 0.05-0.1% for a 40C swing, so next to nothing and the wood should easily bend to accomodate that (platform width 6'? so about 1/13" inch contraction over that length). So I reckon either way would actually work (spring vs no spring) but it's still a good idea.
On the other issue: the building regs or code for wire spacings: Others mentoned 4" and it's the same in England (100mm/4" sphere should not pass through any opening in stairs). Fair point. BUT…
A) Are treehouses subject to code? They're not in England (though Planning would apply in most cases as people have tiny gardens).
B) The 4" thing is set with domestic stairs in mind that may see toddlers climbing up and down them. I challenge the assumption that there'll be toddlers in this tree house and if so, they have many more exciting ways to fall out. So I think 6" is perfectly reasonable here as the bodies it is preventing from falling are much bigger.
All the best – Tim
If you had used a small turnbuckle instead of the spring you could have tightened it better and been able to tighten it easily later.
anyone know where this was
very bad…….
It is so much easier to use a little bit longer eye bolt. One can hook the spring first, then draw it tight by turning the nut tighter. Learned this on, "This Old House".
should have never used a spring
I LOVE the cable setup; an additional benefit of it is that the tension pulls the handrails together, giving it so much more strength and rigidity. GREAT work, Cody!
That spring is dagger, you should use that O ring….that will be safe……
can u come to my house and build me one and how much
very nice treehouse
loosen the bolt your attaching the spring to then run the bolt down for future projects
use a turnbuckle with the spring
better use philips screw driver for the spring..
That is a good idea to use springs