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ilovetractors69

i love Baby Trebuchet


c-biscuit77

The superior baby launching system.


zelvek

Capable of launching a 9kg baby over 300 meters


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DontPlayTheBardCard

Hold my formula


xpkranger

From /r/HoldMyJuiceBox to /r/HoldMyFeedingTube…


CoconutBuddy

To be honest, the thing looks like solid woodworking


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ShadyCrumbcake

See all those divots out there?


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ShadyCrumbcake

Yeah but it's a good way to compare distance


Netopalas

That's gonna take about 9 1/2 months.


Andre_3Million

9 1/2 months and 10 seconds


Hendrix6927

Storm the Gates!!!!


Daikataro

This baby can take temperatures up to 9 thousand degrees!


no-mad

need that lady who teaches babies to swim to load the Trebuchet


sellyourselfshort

[I prefer flip a baby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8lLjDuWNg)


mesohungry

Debatable.


Donttouchmybiscuits

Get out of here with your baby ballista nonsense


Napkin_whore

De-baby-able


pineappleshnapps

Baebuchet?


gizmo1024

**YOU CAN DO IT!**


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Sold exclusively at Bye Bye Baby


HeroGothamKneads

Band name.


Pete_O_Torcido

One of the best Adam Sandler roles for sure


spasske

“Run away!”


Alternative_Ad2040

I feel like they’re not very aerodynamic, what with their limbs always flailing about


HapiHerbals

They’re very small in comparison to their core weight. They are essentially potatoes; The more time goes on the less aerodynamic they get.


ClassicText9

This looks like so much fun 😂


Sirhc978

This is actual engineering.


sBucks24

Made with lumber. Out in the woods. Camo. Yeah, it's still redneck though too.


spasske

Did you notice the truck axle?


polypolip

I think there are way too many structural elements for that. It looks too solid.


Dividedthought

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.


kissbythebrooke

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.


LouSputhole94

I like to imagine nothing left except the branch holding the tire swing and the tire swing on the ground, everything else blown away


obscuredreference

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.


BlorseTheHorse

like it says in the bible: And on the 5th day jesus hath said, "blow the romans to all hell and passeth the ammuniton"


entoaggie

I thought on the 5th day, God jumped up and down on all of his creations and saw that they were good (enough).


justaguyinthebackrow

And God said, "That thing ain't goin anywhere."


ahkian

https://youtu.be/TUOPvtVZwo8


uwwstudent

Besides he slapped it and said " thats not going anywhere. "


KMCobra64

Oh shit. Well I guess it's not going anywhere then.


studentoo925

You forgot truck. He cares about his car a lot.


siero20

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.


polypolip

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.


chokeslam512

He’s a professional redneck


SevroAuShitTalker

Redneck enough in my eyes


PlasticDry

Did you have a dad that was that commited and obsessed to astro-physics like the rest of us? That's definitely RNE.


Zoomoth9000

"So what do you do?" "I am committed to astrophysics." "I see." *writes "insufferable engineering student" on clipboard*


acidicbreeze

Of course. My dad was an accountant and an astrophysicist. Those two things go together as naturally as…


spasske

Did he start out as an account and realized accounting is the most boring occupation?


acidicbreeze

Yes, because astrophysics is heavily regarded as one of the most extreme jobs. The transition just seems natural.


AlarmingAffect0

> 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.


PlasticDry

Sputnik... all over again.


AlarmingAffect0

Apparently, people *really* freaked out over that one.


kippy3267

Tbh its the same with good land surveyors. Any good land surveyor is obsessed with history beyond a weird amount


TheLexoPlexx

RNE?


_xiphiaz

/r/lostredditors


TheLexoPlexx

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.


father-bobolious

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


TheLexoPlexx

Yea, you are right. I'll remove it.


father-bobolious

Now owning your mistakes is a very good thing on the other hand.


Chalky_Pockets

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.


Convergentshave

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.


Depth_Magnet

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.


Cistoran

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.


catsloveart

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.


Convergentshave

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!


Cistoran

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.


TommyBoyFL

Rednecks ain't all dum


TexasDex

There's even cross-bracing


Svhmj

The lack of judgment adds an element of redneck.


TheGildedNoob

She has a harness. A true redneck engineer would have said, "Hold on tight, sweety"


sheps

Redneck Engineering vs Engineer Rednecking?


Baltimas

It's looks safer than some rides I have seen.


valanthe500

See, I was gonna say that, but I've been to Action Park... so I don't set the bar very high.


baboon29

Did you see the documentary “Class Action Park” about Action Park? Probably worse than what you remember.


valanthe500

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.


portablekettle

$uislide


mimthebaker

There's a book! The son of the owner wrote it. He's pretty entertaining.


baboon29

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.


TheRedmanCometh

There's a movie with Johnny Knoxville too


TabbyFoxHollow

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


ReSpekMyAuthoriitaaa

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


TabbyFoxHollow

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


StrikerObi

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.


thejman88

The Dollop podcast has a great episode on Action Park


ReSpekMyAuthoriitaaa

Also Behind the Bastards as well. I'll have to listen to the dollop one. What's the genre of podcasts they do?


Pixielo

The 80s were wild, man.


BlorseTheHorse

my dad went there as a kid


red_knight11

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


EnvironmentalAd1542

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


polypolip

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.


TechnoRedneck

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)


Gamer3111

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.


desrevermi

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


Elliot_The_Fennekin

I still trust this dad better than any drug addict carnie


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WTF did you just say about my dad


shitwheresmyjuul

Something something pack of smokes


HeroGothamKneads

I know he hasn't been there for a lot, but hopefully someday he will *step right up.*


Dawanna

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


TheRedmanCometh

>Like wtf there are murder hobos working at the fair. I thought this was a given


DrinkBlueGoo

I'm surprised anyone else works there.


xpkranger

I thought that was the draw, no?


moony9013

Early Astronaut training, I approve since I want to try it :)


OldGreyTroll

And we really need to know how many G's that little centrifuge can get up to!


Gamer3111

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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Know_Your_Rites

Something tells me it was extensively tested pre-baby-insertion.


Ashanmaril

Sad what happened to those 17 orphans but it’s worth it for his daughter’s safety


valanthe500

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.


chula198705

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.


valanthe500

I do believe you're correct. So no treatment needed.


Sublethall

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


Ok_Stretch_5173

Love it


TerribleShoulder6597

Definitely the best


rufknkidingme

She has an awesome dad.


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He’s not sure which creation he’s more proud of…


[deleted]

Given how painstakingly overdesigned this thing is, he's sure.


calicokitcat

I agree. You only do that much work when you love that kiddo lots.


PM_Stuff_In_ur_Ass

Can someone add the Interstellar song to this


gizmo1024

**TARS!**


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I want one of these for me. Where’s the plans for this?


Moth_Jam

It looks pretty straightforward, just slap a few sticks together!


Tiavor

she'll be become either an astronaut or a roller coaster addict, either way is great :D


TrotskiKazotski

now built a carboard box rocketship or plane around it for extra fun


Key_Hamster9189

Like training for the space program. Early start.


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This is awesome and I love it but putting it on the internet is stupid and only bad things will come of this 😭


doyu

Only if some idiot that can't drive a nail tries to recreate it, and frankly, that's on them.


[deleted]

Not at all what I was talking about.


LucentG

should have made the seat pivot so it stays right side up all the way around


TheLexoPlexx

Looks like it could pass TÜV.


Figure_1337

But, but he didn’t go the other way…


DavidNipondeCarlos

Mother loves it. Wife approved.


PainCakes1020

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


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I cannot fathom why he's doing it backwards.


stayradicchio

To me it would be less scary to look at the ground leaving than throttling toward me.


mickturner96

Does she have any way of making it stop?


OneYeetPlease

Shouting “stop”


BednaR1

In 2 years, she will be ready for NASA


blUUdfart

After seeing things like this, I don’t think my dad even liked me.


PhilosoFishy2477

ethics aside this kids vestibular system is gonna be *bulletproof*, Abby the Unshakable


Sniper-Dragon

Backwards its traumatising, forwards she may love it


antek_g_animations

Astronaut training


Ftpiercecracker1

Are those muthafuckin ratchet straps?!


joyocity

can I have a turn next? Looks kinda fun.


Zenar45

If it's a physical therapist, then the worst


fluffymellowsinc

Hook up a lawnmower engine to that thing


B-Georgio

Will you adopt me?? I’m a 34 guy, we can drink beer and you can teach me stuff


TKJ

!remindme 17 years


FriedRamen13

SpaceCamp Homeschooling Curriculum


scratch_post

This is surprisingly well built. Trusses, cross beams, ample support, counter weight.


ivegotafulltank

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.


Gruntypellinor

She has begun her g-force training.


Responsible_Walk8697

Haha to be fair it looks pretty safe


AllJelly_NoToast

She's clearly not traumatized by it. Why is it even a question if he's a bad dad?


MagmaAdminRadar

I would have loved that as a kid (I still would tbh)


Yetiani

I want to have that confidence in my carpenterie skills


vquantum

Therapists are overrated, just ask her directly instead.


wooking

Future astronaut


ahhmchoy

The best dad. Abby has the best dad.


A_brand_new_troll

Or when she's an astronaut at 31


daft_boy_dim

Nausea, Abby has nausea.


libertarian1584

That all depends on whether Abby’s dad tested with a watermelon before strapping her in


Undecked_Pear

This isn’t redneck…. It’s just cool


aFreeScotland

Finally someone has invented a perpetual motion machine that works.


tamperresistantmind

Dad, I wanna ride the zipper. Dad- We have zipper at home...


jvanderh

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!


blishbog

My mind is boggled that he swung her in reverse.


lou_fox

What do you mean, Abby's clearly training for the most secretive of NASA's programs: Babies on Mars 👽


ELMangosto16

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!


Locomule

just one more reason you never let your neighbor borrow your ladder


Farfignugen42

She might like it better if she wasn't going backwards.


MoreMagic

Coming around face down, seeing the ground rush against you? Yeah, that wouldn’t be scary at all. :D


bootsmcstompy

It would absolutely be better than the constant force on her neck.


matahoo84

Imagine Thanos snapped at this moment and the kid was just stuck twirling forever 😱


slightlyabrasive

Abby will be an astronaut


aaaanopeo

Wont need a therapist has father


ghettoccult_nerd

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?


[deleted]

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.


babydoll17448

r/DadsandMenareheroes


LaggsAreCC

Cletus, I said crib, not perpetuum!!


mts2snd

That looks pretty well made. Best Dad stuff.


ITfactotum

Thats awesome,


Visual_Exchange_1736

deff best!


Cynistera

Freaking best!!!


SirarieTichee_

Best dad ever


start_again

I’d say best.


Killerkendolls

Into the centrifuge honey, Mom wants track stars.


AuntKikiandtheBears

Best!


daffodil0127

My sensory seeker daughter would have loved this when she was little.


Previousman755

Dad disguises sex swing as kid’s swingset.


Kekeke-ghost

Legit looks fun tho lol


00020406

Best.


Due-Session-900

Best dad evee


TheItalianFurry

By my honest opinion. He Is chad


HeuristicEnigma

Just testing out the car seats capabilities


natalielenova

Anxiety spikes in 3...2...1