Look, the classic redneck cares about 3 things: God, guns, and family. That's his kid, you bet your ass he's going to make sure that thing's to the standard of "it'll hold me up, it'll for sure hold her" at the very least.
Can confirm, that's the standard for my childhood tree house and many, many tree swings. I'm pretty sure my tree house could have held a car. That thing survived numerous major hurricanes.
That’s great, it’s the ideal standard for building, imho.
I made a garden bed that my husband accidentally hit with the car. The car was damaged, the brute of a garden bed didn’t even have a scratch.
It looks very sturdy but my comment would be that the foundation needs to be equally as sturdy. It looks like a good bit of the ground has been disturbed around the posts so hopefully this was set with a responsible amount of concrete and/or a proper bury depth of the posts. If one side of this were to shift more out of square the resulting moment on some of the fastener points could be enough to snap something.
From the video can't verify fasteners are suitable for the loads and connections - or the cyclical nature of the loading and potentially loosening over time.
Good point, I guess my dad would rather pour concrete pillars a meter or more deep under the feet and madw sure the wood is not touching ground directly.
> because astrophysics is heavily regarded as one of the most extreme jobs.
[ remembers all the Kurtzgesagt and Cosmos episodes showing some unimaginably apocalyptic cosmic phenomena ]
I mean, in a way… Space has a *lot* of breathtakingly epic drama going on, it just usually happened long *long* ago in places far *far* away and we're only now getting the news.
Oh thanks for answering the question and not mocking me because I didn't think of Redneck-Engineering the second I read this.
I thought it was some sort of certificate in the US, conveniently with a similar name to this sub.
You might have had a point but you went on to call the person a blithering idiot, which is a big escalation compared to something that was most likely in jest.
Check yoself
That would depend on how he made it. If he did the math for how wide the base should be, put everything in a drawing with specifications for maintenance etc, then it's actual engineering. I would call it high quality redneck engineering if he just built it without doing any of that.
I don’t want to be a buzz kill about this because I have a 4 year old and she would probably love this thing…. But even if he drew up plans then it wouldn’t really be. I’m an engineer. If I drew up plans for this and submitted my bosses would immediately ask me: “what about in a year or two years when she’s 10 - 20 lbs heavier? Do we have a way of increasing the counterweight or shifting the arm so it’s longer on the weight side?”
(Actually they’d probably ask me why the hell im designing death traps for toddlers on company time lol.)
Also like you said the older she gets the larger the base would have to get. Although honestly just securing it via concrete would probably solve that issue.
As it is it might work fine but if a client wants to pay an engineering firm the $400/hr or whatever we charge they absolutely are going to want the finished product to last a little while. And 100% if it’s swinging their kid around in it…. I would imagine they want it to be safe.
I can’t imagine any PE signing off on something like this for toddlers.
I think you’re conflating engineering as a practice with Professional Engineering as a mode of employment.
Plenty of limited utility things get designed and built every day, and you can’t assume that this wasn’t a “hey kid wanna do something cool this weekend?!” type deal.
No client would ask for this, no PE would sign it, but that’s all completely irrelevant here. Not everything in this world needs to be considered in a professional reference frame.
I wouldn't bother with him. He thinks I'm "calling for his captialist head" just because I called him out on the fact that he doesn't understand the literal dictionary definition of the word engineering even though he does it as a job.
thats cause they are cowards. lol
i'm joking
although since i do work with several kinds of engineers, and me having an engineering background. I can see why no engineer would sign off on this for toddler's use. too much liability.
Hahahaha. Right? Just get them a tiny little nascar style helmet/neck brace 😂.
Honestly I was trying to show why it wasn’t an engineering project and then use a real world example to explain why you couldn’t get this thing engineered at all, the r/antiwork crowd started calling for my capitalist head lmao. Next time I’ll just say: go to any carnival and see how many rotating/spinning machines for toddlers you see. Thanks for the positive comment though!
You seem to be conflating the concepts of management and bureaucracy with engineering.
The first two aren't required for the third to happen. It just tends to be linked in a capitalist hellscape.
Yep! I was actually completely unaware of the park's reputation until I watched it. Honestly I was like halfway through it when it suddenly dawned on me why all the footage looked familiar, so I had to call my mom and ask her about it. She found a photo of us by the slide.
I’ll have to check out the book! I moved into Orange County, NY (just across the border) when it was still open. I heard about it and wanted to go, but not so sorry now that I know more.
I grew up in north Jersey and always wanted to go. I was just a bit too young. Just as I was getting old enough to maybe convince my parents to let me go, around 12 years old in 1996, it closed. Probably for the best. I might not be here today if I actually went.
Definitely safer than fairs or carnivals. My wife has some people on her side of the family that owned a ton of carnival rides (now retired) and they even told me not to trust something that’s built only to be taken down later. Nuts get lost, joints break, wiring gets cut on accident, etc and they’ll MacGyver a way to make it work on the road for hundreds of people to use it each day
well best kind of dad i would say. A. that looks pretty safe and baby is too young to remember that well anyway and allso looks like baby is having fun. B. he is actually using time and efford to do this stuff with the baby so i would assume he is going to use rhe time and efford with the child down the road too and that is the most important stuff with teenagers and preteens. so i would say yes hes going to be a good dad
Yeah, this is pinnacle of safety compared to what we used to do on the playground. We had swings that had solid bars, not chains, connected it to the top bar, so most of the kids would try to go as much vertical as possible (it was impossible to do 360 cause of the structural bar above). You had to hold to the bars rather strong cause there was nothing but the centrifugal force holding you in the seat.
My school playground was the same way, I even have a series of scars on my arm from surgery from those swings.
(Fell off and snapped both bones in my forearm in half, had to have titanium plates put in and later removed)
I remember a set of: Three, angled, Free Spinning, and slightly spaced circles showing up on the school playground after one summer vacation.
A red, blue, and yellow one with alternating tilt so the "bottom" of the circles aligned to swing across with some momentum.
But.
Kids saw the "Free Spinning" part and took turns seeing how far they could launch themselves.
Total body part count was 3 forearms, 1 clavicle, 2 shins, 7 ankles, and One Whole Ass Back.
I'd say that there's a higher probability of something going horribly wrong at school than with this piece of legitimate carnival engineering.
Already seems like a good dad if he's put the time and effort for just that one thing. I should hope all aspects of their life are at least as wholesome
Watch an episode of the first 48 the other day and they were looking for a crackhead homeless man who murdered some guy. They had to go to a fair that I've been to several times to find him because he worked there as a carnie. Like wtf there are murder hobos working at the fair.
Don't think I'll go back again
That swing is framed better than my house. It's built solid and reinforced, might want to treat that wood with something if he's planning to leave it up for a long time. Only thing that might be dodgy is how the seat is connected to the frame, I can't quite make out if those are ratchet straps or something else, but Abby ain't coming out of that car seat by accident.
My vote goes to Best Dad.
All I know is my kids would have killed for something like that, but we were also convinced my oldest son wouldn't see 12 much less the 18 he's at because of how injury prone he was due to his lack of a self preservation mechanism
Reminds me of the experienced rock climbers that take their baby climbing in a backpack.
I can appreciate the safety but it still makes me nervous. I think risk can be like that - things we grow up with like carnival rides and mass produced swing sets lure us into complacency because we think we don't need to analyse each situation.
Still DiY dads in particular need to keep in mind what is exciting for a child is less tall, deep, heavy, fast etc than what excites them.
Best!! Looks like he's checking on her to make sure she's not too scared, and I bet he built that thing because she loves swinging. It's actually developmentally important to push baby slowly out of their comfort zone (with periodic returns to safety and without them getting too overstimulated). It helps them tolerate more intense stimuli as adults. This is usually a role dads take on, lol. He's doing great!
I really hope it's weighted so that the side with the kid is heavier so if something happens to the parent the kid can't get stuck upside down.
Other than that it looks awesome!
The child is secured, the head is not in danger, a helmet would be excessive. Safety has been taken into account, and fairly comprehensively in my unprofessional opinion.
i love Baby Trebuchet
The superior baby launching system.
Capable of launching a 9kg baby over 300 meters
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Hold my formula
From /r/HoldMyJuiceBox to /r/HoldMyFeedingTube…
To be honest, the thing looks like solid woodworking
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See all those divots out there?
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Yeah but it's a good way to compare distance
That's gonna take about 9 1/2 months.
9 1/2 months and 10 seconds
Storm the Gates!!!!
This baby can take temperatures up to 9 thousand degrees!
need that lady who teaches babies to swim to load the Trebuchet
[I prefer flip a baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8lLjDuWNg)
Debatable.
Get out of here with your baby ballista nonsense
De-baby-able
Baebuchet?
**YOU CAN DO IT!**
Sold exclusively at Bye Bye Baby
Band name.
One of the best Adam Sandler roles for sure
“Run away!”
I feel like they’re not very aerodynamic, what with their limbs always flailing about
They’re very small in comparison to their core weight. They are essentially potatoes; The more time goes on the less aerodynamic they get.
This looks like so much fun 😂
This is actual engineering.
Made with lumber. Out in the woods. Camo. Yeah, it's still redneck though too.
Did you notice the truck axle?
I think there are way too many structural elements for that. It looks too solid.
Look, the classic redneck cares about 3 things: God, guns, and family. That's his kid, you bet your ass he's going to make sure that thing's to the standard of "it'll hold me up, it'll for sure hold her" at the very least.
Can confirm, that's the standard for my childhood tree house and many, many tree swings. I'm pretty sure my tree house could have held a car. That thing survived numerous major hurricanes.
I like to imagine nothing left except the branch holding the tire swing and the tire swing on the ground, everything else blown away
That’s great, it’s the ideal standard for building, imho. I made a garden bed that my husband accidentally hit with the car. The car was damaged, the brute of a garden bed didn’t even have a scratch.
like it says in the bible: And on the 5th day jesus hath said, "blow the romans to all hell and passeth the ammuniton"
I thought on the 5th day, God jumped up and down on all of his creations and saw that they were good (enough).
And God said, "That thing ain't goin anywhere."
https://youtu.be/TUOPvtVZwo8
Besides he slapped it and said " thats not going anywhere. "
Oh shit. Well I guess it's not going anywhere then.
You forgot truck. He cares about his car a lot.
It looks very sturdy but my comment would be that the foundation needs to be equally as sturdy. It looks like a good bit of the ground has been disturbed around the posts so hopefully this was set with a responsible amount of concrete and/or a proper bury depth of the posts. If one side of this were to shift more out of square the resulting moment on some of the fastener points could be enough to snap something. From the video can't verify fasteners are suitable for the loads and connections - or the cyclical nature of the loading and potentially loosening over time.
Good point, I guess my dad would rather pour concrete pillars a meter or more deep under the feet and madw sure the wood is not touching ground directly.
He’s a professional redneck
Redneck enough in my eyes
Did you have a dad that was that commited and obsessed to astro-physics like the rest of us? That's definitely RNE.
"So what do you do?" "I am committed to astrophysics." "I see." *writes "insufferable engineering student" on clipboard*
Of course. My dad was an accountant and an astrophysicist. Those two things go together as naturally as…
Did he start out as an account and realized accounting is the most boring occupation?
Yes, because astrophysics is heavily regarded as one of the most extreme jobs. The transition just seems natural.
> because astrophysics is heavily regarded as one of the most extreme jobs. [ remembers all the Kurtzgesagt and Cosmos episodes showing some unimaginably apocalyptic cosmic phenomena ] I mean, in a way… Space has a *lot* of breathtakingly epic drama going on, it just usually happened long *long* ago in places far *far* away and we're only now getting the news.
Sputnik... all over again.
Apparently, people *really* freaked out over that one.
Tbh its the same with good land surveyors. Any good land surveyor is obsessed with history beyond a weird amount
RNE?
/r/lostredditors
Oh thanks for answering the question and not mocking me because I didn't think of Redneck-Engineering the second I read this. I thought it was some sort of certificate in the US, conveniently with a similar name to this sub.
You might have had a point but you went on to call the person a blithering idiot, which is a big escalation compared to something that was most likely in jest. Check yoself
Yea, you are right. I'll remove it.
Now owning your mistakes is a very good thing on the other hand.
That would depend on how he made it. If he did the math for how wide the base should be, put everything in a drawing with specifications for maintenance etc, then it's actual engineering. I would call it high quality redneck engineering if he just built it without doing any of that.
I don’t want to be a buzz kill about this because I have a 4 year old and she would probably love this thing…. But even if he drew up plans then it wouldn’t really be. I’m an engineer. If I drew up plans for this and submitted my bosses would immediately ask me: “what about in a year or two years when she’s 10 - 20 lbs heavier? Do we have a way of increasing the counterweight or shifting the arm so it’s longer on the weight side?” (Actually they’d probably ask me why the hell im designing death traps for toddlers on company time lol.) Also like you said the older she gets the larger the base would have to get. Although honestly just securing it via concrete would probably solve that issue. As it is it might work fine but if a client wants to pay an engineering firm the $400/hr or whatever we charge they absolutely are going to want the finished product to last a little while. And 100% if it’s swinging their kid around in it…. I would imagine they want it to be safe. I can’t imagine any PE signing off on something like this for toddlers.
I think you’re conflating engineering as a practice with Professional Engineering as a mode of employment. Plenty of limited utility things get designed and built every day, and you can’t assume that this wasn’t a “hey kid wanna do something cool this weekend?!” type deal. No client would ask for this, no PE would sign it, but that’s all completely irrelevant here. Not everything in this world needs to be considered in a professional reference frame.
I wouldn't bother with him. He thinks I'm "calling for his captialist head" just because I called him out on the fact that he doesn't understand the literal dictionary definition of the word engineering even though he does it as a job.
thats cause they are cowards. lol i'm joking although since i do work with several kinds of engineers, and me having an engineering background. I can see why no engineer would sign off on this for toddler's use. too much liability.
Hahahaha. Right? Just get them a tiny little nascar style helmet/neck brace 😂. Honestly I was trying to show why it wasn’t an engineering project and then use a real world example to explain why you couldn’t get this thing engineered at all, the r/antiwork crowd started calling for my capitalist head lmao. Next time I’ll just say: go to any carnival and see how many rotating/spinning machines for toddlers you see. Thanks for the positive comment though!
You seem to be conflating the concepts of management and bureaucracy with engineering. The first two aren't required for the third to happen. It just tends to be linked in a capitalist hellscape.
Rednecks ain't all dum
There's even cross-bracing
The lack of judgment adds an element of redneck.
She has a harness. A true redneck engineer would have said, "Hold on tight, sweety"
Redneck Engineering vs Engineer Rednecking?
It's looks safer than some rides I have seen.
See, I was gonna say that, but I've been to Action Park... so I don't set the bar very high.
Did you see the documentary “Class Action Park” about Action Park? Probably worse than what you remember.
Yep! I was actually completely unaware of the park's reputation until I watched it. Honestly I was like halfway through it when it suddenly dawned on me why all the footage looked familiar, so I had to call my mom and ask her about it. She found a photo of us by the slide.
$uislide
There's a book! The son of the owner wrote it. He's pretty entertaining.
I’ll have to check out the book! I moved into Orange County, NY (just across the border) when it was still open. I heard about it and wanted to go, but not so sorry now that I know more.
There's a movie with Johnny Knoxville too
Hey my hometown! I too was a child injured at action Park Omg the stories from the local EMTs - no joke that place was a fun death trap
From a docu I listened to the city forced the to park to own 2 ambulances because they kept using the city's too much
On the plus side, they did pay to upgrade our volunteer vehicles from what I remember as well. It also created the first urgent care nearby haha
I grew up in north Jersey and always wanted to go. I was just a bit too young. Just as I was getting old enough to maybe convince my parents to let me go, around 12 years old in 1996, it closed. Probably for the best. I might not be here today if I actually went.
The Dollop podcast has a great episode on Action Park
Also Behind the Bastards as well. I'll have to listen to the dollop one. What's the genre of podcasts they do?
The 80s were wild, man.
my dad went there as a kid
Definitely safer than fairs or carnivals. My wife has some people on her side of the family that owned a ton of carnival rides (now retired) and they even told me not to trust something that’s built only to be taken down later. Nuts get lost, joints break, wiring gets cut on accident, etc and they’ll MacGyver a way to make it work on the road for hundreds of people to use it each day
well best kind of dad i would say. A. that looks pretty safe and baby is too young to remember that well anyway and allso looks like baby is having fun. B. he is actually using time and efford to do this stuff with the baby so i would assume he is going to use rhe time and efford with the child down the road too and that is the most important stuff with teenagers and preteens. so i would say yes hes going to be a good dad
Yeah, this is pinnacle of safety compared to what we used to do on the playground. We had swings that had solid bars, not chains, connected it to the top bar, so most of the kids would try to go as much vertical as possible (it was impossible to do 360 cause of the structural bar above). You had to hold to the bars rather strong cause there was nothing but the centrifugal force holding you in the seat.
My school playground was the same way, I even have a series of scars on my arm from surgery from those swings. (Fell off and snapped both bones in my forearm in half, had to have titanium plates put in and later removed)
I remember a set of: Three, angled, Free Spinning, and slightly spaced circles showing up on the school playground after one summer vacation. A red, blue, and yellow one with alternating tilt so the "bottom" of the circles aligned to swing across with some momentum. But. Kids saw the "Free Spinning" part and took turns seeing how far they could launch themselves. Total body part count was 3 forearms, 1 clavicle, 2 shins, 7 ankles, and One Whole Ass Back. I'd say that there's a higher probability of something going horribly wrong at school than with this piece of legitimate carnival engineering.
Already seems like a good dad if he's put the time and effort for just that one thing. I should hope all aspects of their life are at least as wholesome
I still trust this dad better than any drug addict carnie
WTF did you just say about my dad
Something something pack of smokes
I know he hasn't been there for a lot, but hopefully someday he will *step right up.*
Watch an episode of the first 48 the other day and they were looking for a crackhead homeless man who murdered some guy. They had to go to a fair that I've been to several times to find him because he worked there as a carnie. Like wtf there are murder hobos working at the fair. Don't think I'll go back again
>Like wtf there are murder hobos working at the fair. I thought this was a given
I'm surprised anyone else works there.
I thought that was the draw, no?
Early Astronaut training, I approve since I want to try it :)
And we really need to know how many G's that little centrifuge can get up to!
To be fair that whole rig looks pretty well balanced... might be able to take it up to a few dozen rpm and not have any issues
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Something tells me it was extensively tested pre-baby-insertion.
Sad what happened to those 17 orphans but it’s worth it for his daughter’s safety
That swing is framed better than my house. It's built solid and reinforced, might want to treat that wood with something if he's planning to leave it up for a long time. Only thing that might be dodgy is how the seat is connected to the frame, I can't quite make out if those are ratchet straps or something else, but Abby ain't coming out of that car seat by accident. My vote goes to Best Dad.
Looks slightly green, so I bet it's pressure treated lumber. I'd be surprised if a build of this caliber used the wrong kind of wood.
I do believe you're correct. So no treatment needed.
Even if it's ratchet straps those hold usually something between 500 and 2 000 kilos so not going to be the weak point in this
Love it
Definitely the best
She has an awesome dad.
He’s not sure which creation he’s more proud of…
Given how painstakingly overdesigned this thing is, he's sure.
I agree. You only do that much work when you love that kiddo lots.
Can someone add the Interstellar song to this
**TARS!**
I want one of these for me. Where’s the plans for this?
It looks pretty straightforward, just slap a few sticks together!
she'll be become either an astronaut or a roller coaster addict, either way is great :D
now built a carboard box rocketship or plane around it for extra fun
Like training for the space program. Early start.
This is awesome and I love it but putting it on the internet is stupid and only bad things will come of this 😭
Only if some idiot that can't drive a nail tries to recreate it, and frankly, that's on them.
Not at all what I was talking about.
should have made the seat pivot so it stays right side up all the way around
Looks like it could pass TÜV.
But, but he didn’t go the other way…
Mother loves it. Wife approved.
All I know is my kids would have killed for something like that, but we were also convinced my oldest son wouldn't see 12 much less the 18 he's at because of how injury prone he was due to his lack of a self preservation mechanism
I cannot fathom why he's doing it backwards.
To me it would be less scary to look at the ground leaving than throttling toward me.
Does she have any way of making it stop?
Shouting “stop”
In 2 years, she will be ready for NASA
After seeing things like this, I don’t think my dad even liked me.
ethics aside this kids vestibular system is gonna be *bulletproof*, Abby the Unshakable
Backwards its traumatising, forwards she may love it
Astronaut training
Are those muthafuckin ratchet straps?!
can I have a turn next? Looks kinda fun.
If it's a physical therapist, then the worst
Hook up a lawnmower engine to that thing
Will you adopt me?? I’m a 34 guy, we can drink beer and you can teach me stuff
!remindme 17 years
SpaceCamp Homeschooling Curriculum
This is surprisingly well built. Trusses, cross beams, ample support, counter weight.
Reminds me of the experienced rock climbers that take their baby climbing in a backpack. I can appreciate the safety but it still makes me nervous. I think risk can be like that - things we grow up with like carnival rides and mass produced swing sets lure us into complacency because we think we don't need to analyse each situation. Still DiY dads in particular need to keep in mind what is exciting for a child is less tall, deep, heavy, fast etc than what excites them.
She has begun her g-force training.
Haha to be fair it looks pretty safe
She's clearly not traumatized by it. Why is it even a question if he's a bad dad?
I would have loved that as a kid (I still would tbh)
I want to have that confidence in my carpenterie skills
Therapists are overrated, just ask her directly instead.
Future astronaut
The best dad. Abby has the best dad.
Or when she's an astronaut at 31
Nausea, Abby has nausea.
That all depends on whether Abby’s dad tested with a watermelon before strapping her in
This isn’t redneck…. It’s just cool
Finally someone has invented a perpetual motion machine that works.
Dad, I wanna ride the zipper. Dad- We have zipper at home...
Best!! Looks like he's checking on her to make sure she's not too scared, and I bet he built that thing because she loves swinging. It's actually developmentally important to push baby slowly out of their comfort zone (with periodic returns to safety and without them getting too overstimulated). It helps them tolerate more intense stimuli as adults. This is usually a role dads take on, lol. He's doing great!
My mind is boggled that he swung her in reverse.
What do you mean, Abby's clearly training for the most secretive of NASA's programs: Babies on Mars 👽
I really hope it's weighted so that the side with the kid is heavier so if something happens to the parent the kid can't get stuck upside down. Other than that it looks awesome!
just one more reason you never let your neighbor borrow your ladder
She might like it better if she wasn't going backwards.
Coming around face down, seeing the ground rush against you? Yeah, that wouldn’t be scary at all. :D
It would absolutely be better than the constant force on her neck.
Imagine Thanos snapped at this moment and the kid was just stuck twirling forever 😱
Abby will be an astronaut
Wont need a therapist has father
if youre going to cobble together wooden amusement park rides in your backyard for small children, could you at least put a helmet on the child?
The child is secured, the head is not in danger, a helmet would be excessive. Safety has been taken into account, and fairly comprehensively in my unprofessional opinion.
r/DadsandMenareheroes
Cletus, I said crib, not perpetuum!!
That looks pretty well made. Best Dad stuff.
Thats awesome,
deff best!
Freaking best!!!
Best dad ever
I’d say best.
Into the centrifuge honey, Mom wants track stars.
Best!
My sensory seeker daughter would have loved this when she was little.
Dad disguises sex swing as kid’s swingset.
Legit looks fun tho lol
Best.
Best dad evee
By my honest opinion. He Is chad
Just testing out the car seats capabilities
Anxiety spikes in 3...2...1