The Forestry Forum

Here's a link on tree houses from the Buzz Board...

http://www.treehouses.com/treehouse/construction/conv0.html

Are they trying to keep the tree sitters from fallin out of the trees?

Hmmmm-m-m-m   That reminds me of an elephant joke :D

I don't know what methods they use to secure the house to the tree.
I can't imagine them using nails but they might.

and more normal than ever.

I thought It was bad when me and my brother built a three story job in an old cottonwood tree.

  Kevin the tree houses if built right are secured with rubber compression rings, no nails needed. As the tree grows the ring expands and there's no strangling of the tree. 8)
  I've been reading up about tree houses for years as I want to build one and live in it. There's a few really cool ones out this way on the islands that people rent out.

     Steve

Steve, where can you buy these rings?

  Kevin the compression rings are mostly homemade, some have metal bands like a plumber would use, kinda self adjusting.
  One would go above the house and one below the place and they counteract against each other. As the tree grows they expand and all the tree has to do is support the weight of the treehouse.

   K did I just explain that right???


      Steve

Thanks for the link Kevin. I have always wanted to build one.

Nice to see you back Steve