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Residential Swing Hardwares

Residential Swing Hardwares

Residential Swing Hardwares

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For a project I need to specify hardware for a residential indoor swing. Please guide me with regards to the kind of hardware I need to call out that would connect the swing to the structure

RE: Residential Swing Hardwares

How strong would you make it for your child? How heavy is the person that will use it? OSHA asks for a safety factor of 10 for lifting personnel.

Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com

RE: Residential Swing Hardwares

  Build it for a child,No a group of kids.
A kid can bust a rock.If you design with this in mind a 400LB FAT MAN will be no problem.

RE: Residential Swing Hardwares

37ed, you got it right. My kids tested a Tonka ready mix truck. They saw an ad that the Tonka people drove a real truck off a cliff and threw the toy truck off, too. They threw their truck off a 60 ft. high bridge to the rock below. Then were upset when the plastic truck broke.

Go to a couple of "private' i.e. expensive, school playgrounds and measure the fittings. They will have a strength about 10-15 times what they need.

Richard A. Cornelius, P.E.
WWW.amlinereast.com

RE: Residential Swing Hardwares

Consider strength but don't ignore durability.  From childhood experience--man, that's been a while--whatever you use needs to contain a bearing surface that's intended to be used in this or some similar application.  Don't just put the end link of a chain in a u-bolt no matter how big they are.  Sooner or later it will fail and by default, there will be someone in the swing when it does.  Get a connector with a bearing in it that's intended to allow motion with minimal friction and wear.

DB

deja moo:  I've heard that BS before.

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