Remember child sensations from swing? It is not only pleasant, but also useful - monotonous swinging is trained by the vestibular apparatus, and still - soothe the nervous system. The second property in our time is very useful. It is a pleasant treatment-relaxation after a busy day. Moreover, any person with "straight" hands will be able to make a swing with their own hands. There are, of course, complex models, but a lot more simple.

About structures

Like most of the surplus buildings, swing most often made from wood. Racks and crossbars are made of timber, logs, seats - from dusts and even from pieces of home furniture.

A little about structures. There are three main types of suspended swings, or as they are also called - a swing-boat, a sofa, bench, etc. The main difference in the type of supporting structure: there is a-shaped and P-shaped. An example with racks folded into a triangular design you see above, and in the photo below the example with a P-shaped counter. It is already more likely with a suspension bench and it is built on the same type, only taking into account swinging loads.

There is a third look - this is a complex structure that requires certain skills - in its crank compounds and they swing away from the harness to the floor. We immediately give both photos and schemes for those who want (can be deployed to the full screen if you click on the arrows in the upper right corner of the picture).

Making swing do it yourself from the tree

Most often, they independently make the design in the form of the letter "A". It is easier, requires smaller consumption of materials. We will analyze the nodes, fasteners in more detail, talk about materials, protection against destruction and stability.

Materials

Immediately about what to make wooden swings. The selection of the secting of lumber depends on the planned load. If it is assumed that one adult person, racks and upper crossbar at a minimum - 50 * 70 mm will be sitting. If a larger number of "landing" places is assumed - two or three, then the cross section of the bar is at least 100 * 100 mm, in better - 100 * 150 mm. The experimental way is established that such a design when using a bar 100 * 100 normally withstands the total load of about 200 kg. If you need more - take a larger cross section, or put a log))

About what makes a bench / sofa. A barcass will go to the frame 70 * 40 mm, the height of the back is not less than 600 mm, the depth of the seat is at least 480 mm. With the depth of the seat and angle of inclination of the back, you can experiment: There are options for "lying" position. Accordingly, the length of the sofa and the dimensions of the structure differ from this greatly. For fastening, nails 200 or studs of at least 10 mm in diameter are used.

How to arrange the rack

Scheme with dimensions and list of the desired material in the photo below. If frankly, few people do from such materials as indicated in the specification. More often put timber.

There are varieties of this design: with the bottom frame or without. If the swing is to be installed on a tight area and fastening to make rigid, on the hairpins, without the possibility of a backlash, then such a design will stand without problems. If there are doubts, you can make a snug from a bar, to nail with stiletto to coating, or drive the stakes to the ground.

The crossbar added here, there is nothing to touch the easiest design, but the "legs" can be torn

For those who are afraid of side loads - the design in this axis is not the most reliable - you can offer racks to put with a slope. Square will need large, but stability will be high.

If it is assumed to install in the ground, parts of the racks that will be buried must be treated with bio-protection. As a cheap option - to put for a few hours in the vessel with the exhaust oil. Dry, then bury. They buried at least 50 cm to the depth, a little rubble embarrassed onto the bottom, racks and concrete. If you are afraid that this is not enough, attach the cruciform at the bottom of several metal bands. The well will have to dig a larger size, but the deduction area will be greater.

Methods of fastening crossbar

In all the swings of this type - with the supported at the top of the racks - the node of the attachment is problematic, to which then cling to the bench. In the photo above it is resolved reliably, although not quite aesthetic. The whole trouble is that the aesthetic methods are complex. And, if you are not for sale, it is faster to do something uneleeless, but reliable. So, to consolidate the crossbar, the overhead of the timber attached below the intersection attached to the racks. There is a cross on it, which is held from lateral shifts with racks and fasteners - nails and honeycomb.

Another way to install the crossbar is to mount the side racks in the form of the letter "x". With this option, the carrier bar is perfectly lighted. It is additionally attached to nails, and the racks are tightened with studs. For this option, see the next photo.

All is well, but the sofa length is not enough ...

According to the same principle, they are collected by their own hands from the logs: the side fastened will be covered, and the support log is laid on top. If the bar is sometimes collected on nails, then in the case of logs, they are mainly used.

For those who are familiar with the carpenter, there are still options: in the floor tree. Such a project in the photo gallery below with a close-up of some key nodes.

Stands are bonded - view from inside

Photo gallery homemade swings on chains

And several photos of different swings made on the basis of a-shaped design.

From latitive logs under a reed roof - a gorgeous version of - 3-seater, and maybe more, the swing is still the option in which all the "finishers" have developed - the racks in the form of the letter "X" and under the slope one of the modifications - more complicated in Manufacturing this is a whole house .... Different immediately and staircase ...

Mounting swing to the crossbar

It also requires clarification for a swing, that is, not for everyone obviously, how to hang the sofa bench on the crossbar. First, the crossbar is drilled from below-up through. Through the hole skipped the bolt to which the rhy-nut is mounted. Under the hat, the nuts laid one or two wide washers so that it does not be melted under weight.

It turns out that the ring of the rhy-nut is located below. You can mount the carbine, roll the rope or cable, etc. Just note that the carabiner should be normal, hanging freely on the ring with a rhy-nut. And two chain links should be placed in the carbine. Therefore, it is advisable to buy everything together in one store: you can try on the whole knot at once.

By the way, in the hardware store you can stumble upon other devices that can be accommodated for fastening chains or ropes from the seat swing. For example, such as in the photo below.

They are designed to raise the cargo from 0.5 tons, so that it makes no sense to use them for nurses, in the swing for adults - quite.

Such an attachment has a significant minus - when swinging the creak is heard. You can get rid of the node on time from it, but this operation will have to be repeated periodically. Exit - to make a node on the bearings, but without welding it is not necessary.

Metal swing do it yourself

They have exactly the same design. The material is different, and the method of its attachment. This is welding. Those who are familiar with CO, will not work to cook something similar. And for inspiration a photo report.

Below is the drawing of this swing with dimensions. Some explanations are required. The figure there is a pipe welded around the perimeter (this plane is shaded). She is buried and therefore in the photo is not visible. It was made in order to increase stability: the masses of friends are considerable. For the same reason, they are welded on the ends of the racks of the metal plate. The installation complicated, but the swing is tight.

For the manufacture of 22 meters of profile pipe 50 * 50 mm, for seats 25 * 25 mm - 10 mm, boards 2000 * 120 * 18 - 7 pcs and the rest - fasteners, paint, anti-frug.

There is another way to fasten the swing to the crossbar. He is in the photo.

Method Make Metal Swing Fastening

The original shape of the swing from the profile pipe is nonlinear racks, and curved. This with a tree should be done if it is possible, then only the master.

Children's swings

For children, you can make the same design, but smaller.

There are several other models for, and about that. Here are the first - swing-scales or balancer.

Swing for children - Balancer or Scales

Everything is clear, there may be questions only on the attachment node. Below drawing indicating dimensions. Steel plates are fixed in the top of the top inside. So that they swing, the hole in which the pin is told. You can improve the "exchanging" by inserting bearings.

Quickly and simply can make a swing-socket from the tire (automotive tire). In four corners, the bolts are installed with rhy-nuts, but do not forget smaller diameter (do not forget about the washers), ropes or chains are cling to them, and you can throw them on the appropriate branch on the tree, at least to hang on the horizontal bar.

To diversify the holidays in the country, in the shade of garden trees there are comfortable swings where you can relax and recharge your energy. We want to tell how to make garden swings with their own hands, because it is doubly pleasant when joy also brings the use of their own labor.

Preparation for the construction of swings

Selection of space on the plot

Swing is not just a shop or stump with the seat, this species will be stationary and relatively overhaul, so the place for it is necessary to choose the appropriate.

This means that we need to take into account all the nuances of this building, namely:

• Mobility. The part of the structure is a movable node that makes the fading oscillatory movements under the action of gravity like a pendulum. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate the maximum course of this pendulum in each direction and take care so that there are no interference within these limits: trees, stumps, shrubs or objects of garden furniture;
• Stationarity. In order to ensure the movement of one part of the structure, it is necessary to securely secure the other part of it - the reference frame. To do this, we will have to go into the ground and concrete racks at a depth of 60 - 70 cm;
• Quality site. You probably noticed constant puddles and dirt under the yard or homemade swings, as the land under the seat constantly erases his legs during braking, and there is a deepening, where water and dirt accumulates. Therefore, for a comfortable use of the attraction, you should immediately get rid of yourself from this misunderstanding - to make a concrete tie or put a tile, rubber, although it would be to make a sink from gravel.

Important!
For the normal and long work of the structure, it must be installed as soon as possible, that is, with a free hang of the seat in the lower position, the chain or cable must be perpendicular to the upper crossbar.
To control this parameter it is more convenient to use a plumb.

It is also important to remember that in the oscillation zone of the ridge of the attraction is very dangerous, as you can get a strong blow and seriously injure part of the body. Therefore, this zone should either be limited to access, or to ensure that people or animals do not come to it during the work of the swing.

Another aspect that is often forgotten: Most likely the attraction will be a permanent site of the games of your children, so it is better to consider the method of limiting the zenith or the highest point to which the pendulum can be found. Otherwise, children in an imperfection can sink it up to the full turn around the crossbar with winding chains on it and fall down head.

Important!
From all the above, you can make such a summary: the place for should be spacious, smooth, free from the obstacles and is in the area of \u200b\u200bdirect visibility relative to the house for control and safety.

Selection of material and design type

Several factors will depend on the choice of type of construction and materials:

1. Reliability;
2. Durability;
3. Price;
4. Safety;
5. Relevance in terms of design.

As a rule, two types of materials are used for self-making: wood and metal, as well as their combinations. We will not consider concrete work and work on the improvement of the site.

Metal models, at first glance, more reliable and durable, and other things being equal in the way it is. However, the metal is also subject to corrosion, and with its incorrect processing, this dignity is easily lost.

On the other hand, properly selected and treated wood, with timely leaving, demonstrates quite acceptable and comparable with metal reliability indicators.

If we consider these materials from the point of view of security and artistic value, then wood will be the undisputed leader (unless, of course, your garden is not made in the style of the Gothic cemetery and does not replete forged lattices and fences).

It is also important that the treatment of wooden parts is much easier and does not require such tools such as grinding, electric and gas welding, drill on metal, etc.

If we talk about the cost, then a really beautiful wrought-iron frame will cost much more than high-quality wood, and the use of banal pipes or corners as a result will give a "freak", which will spoil the beauty and atmosphere of a country manor.

Important!
We consider the most appropriate in terms of expediency, we consider a wooden design that is reinforced with metal details in some places.

Making a swing

Before you begin work, you need to make a work plan and drawing. Drawings of garden swings do it yourself easily find on our website, you can also make them on your own.

1. We take 4 three-meter vehicles 100x100 mm and we make two L-shaped structures, connected at an angle of 50 - 55 degrees using furniture bolts;

1. We retreat from the lower end of the support of 60 cm and the remaining part is divided by three. At the border level of the first and second third, mount the tightening of the edged board, two for each leg. Fresh bolts.

1. Now connect the resulting frames of the crossbar of 100x100 mm from the oak bar. Patch the length of the crossbar so that the width of the frame is 50 cm more seat width.

1. We lauginate the legs of the design to a depth of 70 cm, where 10 cm will be a sloping of rubble and sand. Next concreting the pit with a solution of cement, sand and rubble 1: 3: 5. I exhibit the design on the plumb so that the thread was perpendicular to the crossbar;

Important!
Part of the support bar, which will be immersed in concrete, process with bitumen mastics.

Output

Good wooden swings in the country - a great place to relax and the joy of children of any age. We told how to make them easily, the nuances in the video in this article.

Favorite detail - garden swings made of wood. They are equally like adults and children. It's nice to spread on soft pillows in the shade of trees, relax, dream under measuring schism. And for children, this is the main entertainment.

Classic design of wooden garden swings using chain

Manufacturers represent a large selection of ready-made models from different materials. They differ:

Conditionally divide the swing for adults and children. Large sofa models designed for several people are the most popular appearance. They additionally complete awning, soft pillows.
Attracts the attention of suspended structures with a spring. Seat make in the form of a basket-cocoon from a vine, rattan. They are suspended on thick branches of trees.

Design and design of wicker garden swings in the form of a cocoon

Cabinets attached to ropes to wood supports, beams, will give romantic attractiveness to the garden.

For entertainment, the Russian swings are suitable for several people. Practical and convenient for relaxation, leisure design with mosquito nets, tent.

Children's smaller size, according to the growth of the child. Additionally, safety elements are installed in them, side supports.

Classic Russian swings collected from logs, using chains

Main types:

• balances;
• suspended;
• pendulum;
• carousel.

You can choose a model according to the wishes, the presentation of the rest, the style of the landscape.

How to make a swing from the tree do it yourself

From wood most often make swing. It has many advantages:

Such swings are easy to make it easily, even having minimal carpentry skills. Remember that the tree needs to be protected from moisture, temperature drops, snow, sun, insect pests. Therefore, all design elements are opened with moisture-resistant varnish.

Material selection and tools

Start work with the fact that they carry out a revision of the existing material, they pick up wooden blanks. Select the model, draw her sketch.
The second option is easier. You need to choose a product, study the drawing and calculations. Based on them, buy the necessary material for blanks.
Prepare the tool. For work you will need:

Drawing with optimal swing for installation in the country area

• for measurements, marking - roulette, construction pencil;
• electrolovka, they cut separate parts;
• hacksaw, disk saw (cage basic elements);
• building corner, level;
• plancock, for wood processing;
• clamps are tightened by individual elements;
• screwdriver, hammer;
• tighten the mounting wrench;
• electrode, screwdriver.

Ready Drawing Dacha Cutting Sofa Under

Also need fasteners: self-tapping screws, screws, attachments for rafters (combine complex nodes), ry-bolts with washers. Clean, grind the wooden surfaces by sandpaper, or the nozzle on the drill. The swings are painted, opened with a protective varnish.

Scheme of garden swing

The layout of the design elements of the frames prepared for assembly

Popular model from Dachnikov, gardeners - sofa-swing. They are mounted on two types of racks, "A" and "P" of the figurative form. The material for them serves a bar, bric.

With the length of the sofa seat 2 m (in the calculation of 200 kg), the recommended cross section of the racks at least 100 x 100 mm, for portable - better than 100 x 150; 200 mm.
It is necessary to pre-select a place. The direct platform will ensure the stability of the design. The optimal location is in the shade behind the house. Then draw the design scheme.

The location of the garden rocking in the shade of the tree will allow to relax in a hot noon.

It includes:

Options for decoring a seat in the form of a sofa Great place for relaxation

Fastenings: Self-tapping screws, screws, rhy-nuts with bolts (for securing a chain), metal corners, carabiner for fastening a swing. Sofa hangs on the chain.

Step-by-step instruction

Swing from a bar made with their own hands - this is a simple and reliable country furniture

To make a garden swing, do it yourself from wood, you need to follow the sequence and carpentry rules. One of them is the ratio of the width of the bench seat and string steps, it should be 50 cm wider. This proportion will provide stability.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Production of racks. Split the blanks of the desired size. In the form of the letter "A" connect the main surface supports. They must be rigidly connected, so it is better to use furniture bolts with washers.

   The process of sawing the logs on bars for the manufacture of stale supports

2. Locked, fasten the side crossbars. If this is stationary swing, they must be opened into the ground to a depth of 50 to 70 cm. It must be taken into account when marking the main racks.
   The process of bulking and installation of frame columns in dug holes

   The underground part of the support must be treated with bitumen, butter so that they do not rot. The design will be more reliable if the racks cement. The ground part is divided into three proportional parts and mounted jumpers (with 2 sides of the main rack, for long screws).

   The principle of processing wooden columns by bitumen or other materials

3. The next step is the installation of the main jumper. It is fastened with racks with metal corners.

   Main beam fixing device to wooden supports

4. From the upper side jumper to the main mounted bodies (on metal corners), for stability, structural strength.

   Side Fastening Scheme to the main jumper

5. We make a seat. For this you need to make two frameworks with additional vertical jumpers. Seat - 2 m long, width of 0.5 m; The back of the bench - 2 x 0.65 m. The frame is screwed to the frame with an equal interval, it is better to fix with screws. Connect both parts with metal corners. Then set the armrests bench.

   Scheme with sizes of various nodes of the design of the swing

6. Installation of suspension. 2 pairs of ry-bolts are attached to the edges of the backrest frame, another to seats. The main crossbar is drilled through a hole, two bolts are passed into it. They put on the carbine for fastening the swing. Then stack the chain links.

   An example of mounting a wooden chair for special bolts

7. The final stage is the installation, the allotment of the entire design to the Earth. The pit is rooted by 20-30 cm deeper than the underground part of the side rack. Each step of the installation is checked using a level.

   An example set in a rocking sofa garden with a canopy

Wooden design will be preserved better if it is covered with varnish, paint.

Production of children's swings

Pendant collapsible structures - the most popular appearance. They can be moved on the site, hanging on one of the branches of the tree. The child will always be in the field of view of parents. Stationary pendant swings are installed on.

Accommodation on the playground swing with a slide and ladder

The design sequence of the design does not differ from the usual scheme. Standard option - "P" shaped support with a suspended seat. It is necessary to take into account the age of the child. For small additionally install safety jumpers. Children grow, so it is better to provide a fastening that would allow to adjust the height of the seating.

Safe swinging seat with jumper for small children

For this, swing carbines are suitable. The site should be smooth, preferably, with a soft herbal coating, sprinkled with sand. When falling the child is less injured. Look in the video process of manufacturing wooden garden swings.

Swing is needed not only for pleasure. Adults soothe nerves, improve the mood and put in order of thought; Especially if, sharing, contemplate the cloud in heaven. Children and teenagers on the swing train the vestibular apparatus, produce coordination of movements, and, what is called, the whole body feel physics. Schoolchildren who know how to swing well on the swing, as a rule, it is better to have time and with the go there are such difficult concepts as for example, the moment of inertia of the body.

Make garden swings with your own hands the case is simple. Who in childhood did not roll on a plank suspended to the bitch of the tree on the ropes? Or did not bull down in a river or pond, swinging at the tarzanka? And having at its disposal a certain amount of material, a simple tool and not quite the curves of the hand, you can build a resting corner in any atmosphere, not inferior to the garden of the garden, see fig.

Country grace

Street and yard swings put where there is a place. In the country, it is also, in general, not in excess, but for myself it is worth the way, how to collect country pleasures in one edem: and the place is saved, and, if we relax, then the beds, from which hands in the corns, eyes Do not call. Here, as headed, every owner. However, there is a very good universal version: hang swing for giving pergola, see fig. If it, of course, is strong enough for this. To dig up and set up a decorative pond - and the paradise is ready for his own hands less than 1 weaving.

About metal kachels

Most often, they are most often made of wood: it's more closely and working with it easier. But if, say, to equip a playground to equip the playground to the whole world, then the design is already needed, and it is not necessary for the sorrow, so that there is no contemporary, and the hooligan, which, alas, will not translate in any way, damage the swing was difficult. At such a case - in fig. Below the drawing of classic, so to speak, the courtyard swings from the metal: pipes, corner, stripes, wire rods, with a canopy. We will further pay more attention to wooden swings, except when the metal is required by strength: for a sports corner, a teenager, etc.

Note: There are cases when the metal as a design material for swing is chosen according to other criteria. For example, on pos. 1 Fig. Right - forged swings. Their manufacture requires high mastery, and to order is very expensive, but - prestige is obvious. But on the pos. 2 There is also a metal swing from scope trimming. For those who know how to handle the welding machine and the grinder, their construction is half the day, and the bright coloring disguises the utilization of the material.

Best - Children

Bark on suspended swings start not immediately. Todders, just to have learned to rearrange as their lower two, fit to ride a pendulum swing. What, by the way, also develops the motorcy and strengthens the musculoskeletal system. Parents, confused by their siblings, children's pendulum swing, soon make sure: Absadin on his knees and elbows, broken noses, roar and resentment from the other noticeably dressed. Although, of course, still not without it. But the swing will help children to develop a reasonable caution and common sense, not allowing serious injury.

How the swing-pendulum is arranged, it is known. Presented in Fig. The option is interesting because the metal fastener requires already 11 nails:

Details marked (!) Are performed from a solid fine-layer deciduous tree - oak, beech, hut, walnut. The ends of the axis of the pendulum can not be cut to perfectly round: it is enough to overtake more or less smooth to get into the nests with a small tension, and to shake the board several times, work. If the fibers in the axis and support racks are oriented mutually perpendicular to (which is observed elementary, cutting them out of one board), then the swing will serve for many years, and the rubbing surfaces will soon become mirror-smooth and durable, as made of steel on the machine.

The pendulum swing can be made portable to, say, put on the veranda for the winter. 2 methods for this are shown there, pos. A and b. By the method, the ends of the racks are concreted in the unfit tire; The method B is obvious and easier, but both seats can fall the side together with the swings. By the way, from old tires for swing can be learned a lot of other benefits; Next, we will come back to them.

The elder swings for children make suspended, as for adults (see below), with some features:

• The carrying beam of the swing from the bar is made with a removal on which the staircase leads, see Fig. on right.
• Even better, if there is enough space, put an additional support from the side, so that the horizontal bar is and see. Fig. below. In this case, the entire sports corner, except for the housing bar, is preferable to make a profile pipe, then all the construction is stronger, cheaper and more easier.
• Suspensioning for children who already know how to swing, the rope scheme 2-2 is best (see below). Then it is possible that it will be possible, without risking to pinch, otherwise to break the finger of the chain, rake, although the spirit captures. And properly selected materials and the design of the suspension will not allow you to "steal the sun" and to sew down from its top point, or turn to the projectile released from the Parable, without knowing how to group for landing as acrobats.

Note: Choosing or constructing a swing, do not neglect the safety technique! When swinging at all max, the rocking speed at the critical points of the trajectory exceeds 50 km / h! Accordingly, the result of a breakdown or falling from the swing will be equivalent to an accident at the same speed.

There are still swings for newborns and infants. The benefits of them are quite a few, but this is medical equipment. It is not recommended to do such a swing, but you only need to choose purchased and use them for the prescription of the pediatrician.

For kids from about six months, the eyes of which are looking to be meaningfully (this means that vision has formed and see them clearly), children's swings will be useful for small, see fig. on right. They stand quite a few, but to make the same very simple from pipes, PVCs or propylene, and trimming plywood, see video:

Video: Baby swings for kids

Do not forget to drown out the ends of the pipes by foam: at such an age, the finger in a small hole is silent, and I want to put it there. Swing a child in such a swing, keeping suspended by hand; The apartment is suitable for the same plastic tube, weight is small.

Note: It is swing that most often the base of the child's corner. What is still needed for him, and how to compose all this, requires a separate description in parts. For example, you can see the following roller:

Video: Children's playground with swings in the program "Fazenda"

Adults and all-all-all

Now it is appropriate to ask: how are the swings for the whole family? So that and adults should be cozy, and the children also liked? Compromise to find quite possible: the seat must be with the back is double, but not very massive. The commander - strong enough so that it was possible to become a big child to him. Suspension take chain, because Rope with such a load will plunge. Its scheme should provide sufficiently easy swing without help from the side, the corner limit and the speed of the routing and long swaying after it.

Making family swings are preferably made of wood at the above reasons: cozy, they do not need a complex tool or special equipment for manufacture. It is also very desirable to do with 1-2 lumber sizes, and the fact that cheaper is the usual cutting board. For the durability of the workpiece impregnate biocides (antiseptics) and hydrophobizers (water-repellent means).

Since the swing is not a residential building and in the air will dry very quickly, it makes no sense to spend on expensive branded funds. A waste motor oil (testing) is suitable as a biocide, and the hydrophobizator is a water-polymer emulsion or instead of it PVA aluminum or water-based tile, diluted 3-5 times. Impregnate chopped into the size of the workpiece first by working out, and after 3-7 days - emulsion.

Drawings of family swings of such a "classic" type are shown in Fig; The length of the legs are given on their plug in the ground by 0.5 m:

Their peculiarity is that they are built entirely from the boards, without the use of a more expensive breeding forest, as can be seen from the material statement, pos. 2. For pos. 3 shows the way of fitting the supports before assembly: the beelel board is used as a stapel. Feet, cut into size and at the angle (see below), apply to the shell, are bred to the desired width (the accuracy of trimming is checked). Then the bottom stopper is superimposed, it is displayed parallel to the slate at the distance of its ends of it, and is placed under the pruning on the place. From trimming the lower spacer make the top.

Note: In fig. On the right - a way to mark the leg blanks based on the angle between them at 30 degrees. Markers on the steel cleaner are made from several turns of soft wire with bent ends.

Swing their own design

You may have a question: how to make a swing completely independently? Schemes, drawings are good, but if there is a material (let's say, it remains from construction), which is clearly enough for a swing, but does not fit into this design? And I do not want a model product, I want something your own. Finally, in fig. At the beginning it is clear that the gorgeous original swings are obtained at all of the dry and waste from the garden trimming. How to make beautiful, comfortable, durable and safe swings from all this? Well, proceed. The procedure:

1. Dimensions;
2. The base and method of fastening to the soil;
3. Carrier frame;
4. Methods and suspension designs;
5. Suspension nodes;
6. Rocking, she is the seat;
7. Methods for sinking rocking.

Finally, consider some more non-trivial structures and special, but arranged on the basis of ordinary, special purpose swings.

Sizes and proportions

The sizes of the swing are considered, first, based on the width of the seat of the park bench for 1 person - 60 cm; The minimum value is 40 cm. The height of the seat over the ground takes a slightly greater than the standard height of the stool 40 cm so that you can, on the one hand, swing, not hurt for the ground and at the same time, stretching my legs, it was possible to brake; On the other hand, to sit down / get up was still comfortable. Typically take 50-55 cm, but actually customize, adjusting the height of the suspension, see below.

Note: For paired swings with a longitudinal roll, the height of the board of the board (boat) takes 0.7 of its length. For landing, disembarking, the platform is necessary, and for the rocking chair - a smoothly active brake (suddenly someone will grind on it, or it / it is scared and rented), driven by the operator from the Earth. Therefore, paired swings with a longitudinal star in everyday life almost do not apply.

Suspended swings consist of a carrier frame (2 support racks + cross), a suspended system and a rocking chair, it is the seat. The distance from the edges of the seat to the side supports take at least 150 mm with a chain suspension of type 2Sh-4 or 4-4 (see below), for any other chain suspension from 250 mm, for conventional rope suspensions from 350 mm, and for any suspension With 1 point of fastening at the top - at least 0.7 general height of the suspended system. These requirements proceed from the fact that any swing lateral swing is inevitable, and the rummy rocking chairs for the support is unpleasant and with strong swinging is attendable. Those, if we, for example, the 40-cm seat is suspended on the ropes, then the width of the span between the supports must be at least 35 + 40 + 35 \u003d 110 cm.

The distance from the seat to the crossbar should be no less than the growth of a person on a swing, in order to, first, it was possible to rock standing, secondly, to, suddenly getting up, not to knock down his head. It takes within 190-220 cm, depending on the existing material.

The angle between the legs of the side supports take 30-40 degrees; most often - 30. Then, if you take a blank half of the standard length of 6 m, i.e. 3 m, then taking into account the legs of the legs and the thickness of the workpiece on the seat just can be in full growth. In addition, the area occupied by swings.

Note: The thickness of the material of the carrier parts is taken on the basis of 3-fold overload when swinging. For a high-quality wooden bar, it will be from 150 mm in height, and for steel pipes - from 40 mm in diameter or side of the square.

Fastening to the soil

The legs of wooden swings either roll into the ground on 1 m or more, or concreted to a depth of 0.5 m. Then, taking into account 10 cm of the gravel pillow, pits under the legs need to dig by 2 bayonet shovels, i.e. 60 cm. In the thi and more case, the ends of the legs before installing into the pits with a reserve of 15-20 cm in length or impregnate with bitumen mastic (40% bitumen and 60% of white-spit or solvent), or shed heated almost to boiling bitumen, and, barely cooled, sprinkle with sand; This method protects better from rotting.

For spilling bitumen under the leg, put bricks so that the end could be hidden. They pour a thin weaving, for which the bitumen is convenient to warm in a non-tilting with a drawn nose. Obsolete one side, the leg immediately turn over and pour the other side, trying to go to the end too. Sand is sprinkled in the same order.

With metal swings, the situation is more complicated: the pipe is thin compared to a log or broomage can over time or turn out of the soil, or to resolve on the most concrete, because Here, when swinging, the loads are concentrated. Therefore, metal street swings of common use should be made with supported frames in the form of a one-piece triangle and concrete into a trench, then the metal beam laid in it takes on a significant part of the effort and unload the legs.

The legs of the swing without additional supporting elements, like the channel shown above, are concreted to a depth of at least 1.2 m, regardless of the drainage depth in this area, then the channel will be able to transfer part of the loads to concrete. The usual swing from the metal is best binding at the bottom of the additional carrier frame and attach an anchors to the ground at least 1 m long, see fig. This, by the way, will allow, if you need, to return the land without any problems in economic use.

Frame

Country swings are most often done on a frame of 2 A-shaped supports bound by a transverse beam. Sometimes, if the swing is equipped with a rigid awning, the frame is made on the 4-pillars with a canopy, see below. In hot sunny places, where the awning is needed all summer, it gives some material savings.

Recently, frame on λ-shaped supports is becoming increasingly popular, on the left in Fig.:

When building it gives saving wood into a whole bar, which in the current prices for lumber is essential. But this swing only for adults: when sculpting, carrying beams may not withstand - wooden break, piercing. By the way, it is impossible to do λ-frame from ordinary structural steel, immediately. Need a very expensive specialist.

The frames with the traverse (in the center in Fig.) Are known to everyone: the swing on the bitch it is. Specially traverse frames are made for acrobatic swings with the 1st point of the rocking chair; On them, having mastered how the screaming equipment should be written out intricate pyruettes. In this case, the tree on the frame take double thickness, and on the concreted ends of the legs should be firmly attached cross.

A variety of traverse frame - metal mobile. They are made from high-quality steel, load, moments, center of gravity, etc. Mechanical wisdom is accurately calculated. This method is manufactured by popular (and very expensive) swing-lounge chairs, right in fig.

Wooden Rama

Log

The most spectacular and in many cases inexpensive swings are obtained from logs. Take the borne and rounded optional: they will go, as already mentioned, waste trimming and dry waste. Frame from the latter, if the trunks are still durable and powerful, it does not need additional reinforcement, pos. 1 in fig. Ramas frames from a business log, especially if they are mobile, i.e. Do not discharge and are not concreted, you need to strengthen the pins, pos. 2 and 3. The material in the latter case needs as much, but the frame of the sky closes less. It is asked, and why the frames do not plunge? In order not to spoil the lawn or a paved platform, in fig. it is seen.

If the swing is bought or concreted, then the most economical and durable frame - like Chinese swing, pos. 4. Although such swings have long been known in Russia; They were often done in Berezniki, tying in pairs of top trees. The "Russian-Chinese" swing can also be made unlucky, supplying the additional frame at the bottom. Drawing such a design is given on the trail. Fig: legs - logs or square bars, Rigel - 180x80 ram, Lower frame - from the boards of 150x40.

Bar.

The usual, non-publicated wooden bar gives the ability to build a swing large than a log. Brous is easier and cheaper to make a swing with a constant canopy for hot countries, pos. 1 in fig. The usual frame on the A-shaped supports from the bar (pos. 2) will also be easier and stronger: under the weight of the rocking chair, the beams are compressed (pos. 3) and, the stronger the swing is loaded, the stronger the frame is kept. In the frame "Russian-Chinese" swings from the bar, it is necessary at the top, as for logs, only 1 fastener knot, pos. 4, and a canopy device above the swings from a bar on a-shaped supports is also not difficult, pos. five.

Moreover, the rigle from the bar can take the same as on the feet, i.e. reduced section (100x100 mm), if at the ends to reinforce it with overlays from the board, and the points of the rocking shock are close to them, pos. 6. Then bending the bending moments as it were to flow into compressive legs, and the load on the compression tree keeps well.

To strengthen this effect, the riglel sometimes put the tops of the supports, pos. 7, but the winnings in strength comes out illusory, but the excess fastener is striking, and there is money. Using this principle, better the tops of the supports of the trim and the reigleel on top to fasten the lining, pos. 8. Then it will be possible if the reigleel is 150x150, and the legs of the 200x200, make the removal of the riglel to 1.5 m, and to bring children's swing on the ropes, attach a staircase with a slide, etc. It turns out a family swing and sports corner at consumption of the material only a little more than on some swing.

And another question: whether the timber cannot be replaced with a board, say, 150x40? It is possible, as shown in pos. 9, only the takeaways can already be done and the height of the support will have to limit approximately 1.8 m. The swing will be as durable, but much cheaper than the bars. Well, work will leave more - post, trim, sew.

Note: The "classic family" swing described above is still saving, but their legs must be concreted, otherwise the making frame will be fragile. And shown on the pos. 5, 6 and 9 - mobile, they can simply be put on the ground or on the floor.

How to put a frame?

Riegel swing should be horizontally, otherwise the rocking chair will be unpleasant to win on any suspension. It is difficult to put it with a bubble level and troublesome, the hose is slightly simpler, and the laser level is the builder of the planes, understandable, on the farm just do not hold so much.

You can expose the rial swing, using one of the oldest level devices - the Egyptian plumb, see Fig. He came out of use in antiquity due to low accuracy, but it is enough for a swing. As a lower cargo, you can use sand bucket, and the top will go, except for the usual construction plumb, any glazier - bolt, nut.

Suspension and suspension

Suspensioning shocking defines convenience, comfort and safety of swings. This rather complex knot should:

• It is as little as possible to discourage the swinging within the safe limits.
• To gently absorb the rocking energy if the speed / angle of swinging goes for permissible.
• Provide swing without jerks and with as much as possible wilts.
• Acrobatic suspension should provide the same in 2 planes.

The stripping patterns are indicated by the formulas of the N-M-K formula, where n is the number of suspension points at the top, M is the number of intermediate points of the suspension, and k is the number of them on the rocking chair. Several similar to wheel formulas of steam locomotives, but this is a clean coincidence: the locomotive M cannot be equal to 0, because Indicates the number of driving axes, and the swing - easily.

Some types of rocking faces are shown in Fig:

Suspension of the form 1-2 with a soft flexible rocking chair (in fig. No) is called a volatile trapezium. Saves of 1-M-K species are used in a swing on traverse. Garden and country swings are suspended most often in ways 2-4 (the simplest), 2-2-4 (does not give overly silence) and 2Sh-4 (they also do not swing hard and no wounds).

Suspension 4-4 should be mentioned. He actually not swing: how to swing? However, it is sometimes used for original garden benches (on the left in Fig.):

Some pacifies a small disorderly shaking. But most often in the way 4-4 suspend the gazebo swings, to the right there. The case of taste, someone by temper. The eastern lords of the past, and the present, they say, in these just glue their concubines in society.

Chain, rope or traction?

Suspension swings on the rope is the easiest way and, if you know how to knit some sea nodes (see below), does not require expensive additional fasteners. But the rope is known, stretches, and the spiral obey does not limit the swinging. Therefore, firstly, on the ropes it is better to hang the simplest children's summer swing, pos. 1 in fig. below. Secondly, the rope take the cross-pig, see fig. on right. In it, great inner friction, because of what the rigging mechanisms do not like it (the efficiency of the load-lifting mechanisms falls), but for the swing, it is necessary that Chado is unreasonable to make a salty Morthala. The diameter of the kapron crusade for swing - from 24 mm.

Chain suspension, pos. 2, dear, but for the combination of characteristics is optimal in all respects: the chain is durable, its wear is visible at once, almost does not slow down, and excessive due to friction in the links is extinguished. However, due to the last circumstances, the smallest in the swing on the chains for adults can seriously pinch a finger; For children's swings chains take fine-caliber.

Rocking on hard traction (pos. 3 and 4) suspend, as a rule, on bearings. It swings it very smoothly, without the slightest wounds, and it is decided on it, as they say, and a mosquito. But such swings without additional security measures are dangerous: to crash into a stone fence or border at speed at 60 km / h is no longer an incident, it is a tragedy. Therefore, your own, on the plot, swing on hard traction for children should, first, supplied with a rocking chair with a fence, like in a swing for kids, pos. 3. Secondly, it is still impossible to let the child without supervision of adults.

In the courtyard swings of common use on bearings, a routing limiter must be provided - there is no one who climbs there and how can he be swinging? About a simple limiter from the pipe (see Fig.) Rocking is beating, which is unpleasant. In good branded models of swing on hard traction, bearing suspensions are made with a built-in hydromanmus, acting on the principle of automatic vessels with AWD drive, but there are expensive suspension nodes.

Sometimes still rocking is limited, connecting hard rod strips with frame cuts, pos. 5. But, generally speaking, this output is not from the best: due to different mechanical characteristics of the suspension links, even a small and quite safe swinging on such swings occurs with tangible jerks.

Note: There is still a whole class of suspension luxury swings on systems of balanced levers, springs, hydraulic shutters. It is clear that it is expensive and not to do it yourself.

Suspension nodes

Critical points of the suspension of the swing - attachment nodes. They occur very large alternate loads, they are susceptible to abrasion. A small burr on the rubbing surface of the attachment will give very noticeable jerks during the star. Therefore, to the selection of the construction of the attachment nodes, it is necessary to approach with full responsibility.

The cheapest, but also the worst option - S-shaped hooks, pos. 1 in fig. In their crossings, huge loads are concentrated, the likelihood of sudden destruction is high, therefore such a fastening is permissible only for lavell swings suspended not higher than 0.5 m and the design of which allows you to hide barely.

The most reliable fastening is on the clamps with the carbines, pos. 2. The main load falls in them on the top of the beam beam, which is absolutely safe. It is only necessary for the carbines to be with safety teeth and antifriction insert: Slide suspension thrust in the carbine's eye is already an emergency mode with excessive swinging.

Reliable clamps still spoil the view of the swing, so fasteners most often do on rhy-bolts, pos. 3. The indispensable conditions for their maximum reliability - the bolt should pass through the riglel, under the nut, regardless of the reigleel material, the steel washer of at least 60 mm with a diameter and 4 mm thick should be laid, and the nut must be fixed. Spring washers of all kinds when swinging do not interfere with the gradual spontaneous turning into a single nut!

Reliability of the ry-bolt to absolute - on the neck of the fish (rings) there are high stresses. Absolutely reliable a little more expensive U-hooks and rigging brackets, pos. 4. Under the cooler of the hook in the riema, the deaf hole is drilled and it is introduced there by Natogo. Without the possibility of at least a little bitten, the hook will endure an incredible load, because The destruction of the metal begins with the micro-bonds between its crystallites.

Ry-bolt, u-hook and, in a slightly lesser extent, the rigging bracket is noticeably weakened by the riglel, because The focused force applied from above seeks to abandon it just where the beam is weakened by the hole, and the pin pin with a split as it were "handing out" it. The washer relaxes this effect, but does not eliminate it completely. As a result, where 100x100 mm solid beam could be done, it is necessary to put 150x50 mm, and in the calculation of the splint in full and all 200х200 mm.

Through the eyes, but are ideal for all qualities through fastenings with a lining and top suspension, pos. 5 and 6. Shear efforts from them freely spread on the side of the beam and strive not to break, but on the contrary, squeeze the hole, it is no matter how it is; The beam now becomes equivalent one-piece. In addition, although such a suspension on the form 4-4, kinematically, it is equivalent to the chain 2-2-4, but even better and smasher extinguishes excessive star. If suspension with lining rope, then between the carbine and the flavor (loop) of the cable you need to put a solid ring, pos. 6.

Also rings connect the branches of the chain suspension 2-2-4. The upper branch is welded to the ring or solder a solid solder, and the bottom slide on it freely, pos. 7. Only then the chain suspension 2-2-4 will acquire the desired kinematics.

Rope suspensions are good in that it is easy to adjust the height of the rocking chair, but, performed "chain", require a fairly large number of non-fasteners, retaining and adjusting parts and nodes, pos. 6.8 and 9. However, all of them, one easily accessible to independent exemption, can be replaced by marine nodes of the appropriate destination. The reliability of marine nodes is tested by the millennia of marines of marines, and their complexity exists only in the presentation.

Know 200-400 knots like a sailing fleet boatswain, or at least 20-40, as the current yachtsman, it is not necessary for the construction of a swing, for everything everything is enough and 7-9, see Ric:

A - anchor knot, or a fishing bayonet, for mounting a cable to a carbine with an antifriction laying or an intermediate ring. In Ry, you can spend up to 5 shlags (turns). On the undercarriage (free) end of the cable impose a simple brand and it connects the running end with the stretched, is shown in the red frame. The fastening is kept while the cope does not rot or ryh does not rushes. An anchor node is unpleasant, it is easy to unleash it: it is enough to remove or cut the tightening ends to the brand.

B - a shedding knot, too unlocking. Suitable for upper suspension temporary, say, on weekends, children's swings.

B is a bayonet with a community, the same as b, but already for adults.

M is a lock knot, or eight. For the lower fastening of children's swings through the holes in the board.

D, w - seal the end of the cable of repka and the simple disk. The same as r, but for adults, and the tail tails are not chatting. Although actually the rocking chair on the ropes for the bottom is better at all without knots, as described below.

S is a node, for binding 2 ropes, it will take place in any place without cutting.

And - so knives the irrigation loop on a whole rope. You can hang an umbrella, siphon with a gas composition, to adapt the shelf or something else.

Note: There are still simple knots for binding 2 ropes, identical or different, for example. Weaving knot. However, collecting the rope suspension of the swing from pieces is urgently not recommended.

It remains to resolve the question of adjusting the rocking on the ropes. To do this, we need 2 trimming of a durable solid boards from 30 mm (oak, beech, elm, walnut), from which running, or hanging, cable stoppers - Yufers, see Fig. on right. Such soxes were regulated by tensioning the rigging of vintage sailboats, and nothing - the oceans were twisted, America-India was opened. Uphersses are used in conjunction with the framework of the rocking chair described below.

Rocking and its mount

Rocking for adults is, in general, a garden bench without legs. Choose it yourself to taste yes on the back with a fifth point. Based on the adult rocking chair, a pair of transverse bars is supported, and in their ends, they are injected through the rhy-bolts or U-hooks, as on Pos. 4 drawings of "classic family" swings at the beginning. Fastening for any point of top, as on pos. 1 Fig., Extremely unreliable. The centrifugal force when swinging should compress the rocking chair and press it to the supports, and not stretch and tear off.

Children love to swing on volatile trapezes, pos. 2 in fig. below. You can make this one from the tarpaulin itself, strengthening the ends with wooden planks embedded in our pockets are nested and equipping the champs. But it is impossible to put lubrices for curtains, weak. If there is not at the disposal of sailing chalks, you can put their substitutes from the steel ring and harsh, as it should be kenned or melted thread, pos. 3.

Children's rocking chair from a blackboard with a two-point suspension, pos. 3, not recommended by any ways, the likelihood of turning is great. If you do a rocking chair on 2-points, then from the logs, as on the pos. 4, and a rocking chair from the board is suspended in 4 points, passing the cable into the holes, pos. five.

However, the best rope suspension and for children, and for adults - loop in the grooves, pos. 6. For adults, the lower support bars rocking makes are wider, with a removal of 100-200 mm. They do not interfere, on the contrary, at easy swaying on them you can put a book, put a beer bank, etc. And suddenly a transverse squabble will go, they will serve good shock absorbers. Suspension in the grooves is absolutely reliable, it is elementary assembled, disassembled. Adjusting the height of the intermediate points by the YUrtesum allows in fairly wide limits to change not only the height of the rocking chair, but also the kinematics of the suspension.

Swing from tires

It is hardly not the most favorite swing children - from the tires. Causes There are not only psychological or ergonomic, rocker from a tire is a wonderful shock absorber in emergency cases, and an adult master-dad is an excellent swing material. An unsuitable tire can simply hang on the bitches, pos. 1 In Fig., From its trimming without special difficulties, a bat is trapezing: the presence of solid rubber of steel cord in the mass allows you to do without chalks. The whole tire will go to the rocking chair for collective gatherings of melkota, pos. 3. When two-three swing each in its own way, the trajectory of the rocking chair on the suspension 1-3 or 1-4 makes thoughtfully scratching the head and a person who knows the mathematics with physics.

Finally, single rocking chairs are obtained from cut and folded in different ways of tires not only for children, but also for adults, pos. 4-6. The popularity of tire swings is so great that some sports and toy and specializing in goods for children firm produce, especially for swing ... Square tires, pos. 7! It remains only to exclaim after the author "Tartarna from Tarascona": "Did anyone ever heard about something like that?"

Curiosities but in the case

Since we are speeching about funny swings, let's touch something else, but quite suitable for use on purpose. For example, swing-hammocks, left in fig., Although the hammock is already on its own swing. Probably, there is in swaying with additional degrees of freedom something that owners like. In any case, harm will not.

The device in the center will probably enjoy the children, but to name it, without having surveated against Russian grammar, it is impossible. Swing, but not swing. And the photo is that on the right, the author laid out with a note: the easiest way to dispose of an old car. The comment was in English, so it is quite possible - in many countries of the West, deliver the car into a landfill or pass on the scrap it is many hassle. And then the big inertia of a heavy rocking is allowed, swinging, scolding for a very long time, the canopy itself turns out, and the soft sofa of comfort will not be bought.

Not those but swing

Finally, about the swings, direct descendants of children's pendulum swings, but quite adults. And not for entertainment, they help cope with arthritis, osteochonosis, radiculitis without expensive treatment. Reviews of doctors are positive.

Buying garden swings is undoubtedly one of the most successful acquisitions. Naturally, many are interested in the question, how to install garden swings? In fact, there is nothing complicated in this, it is enough to follow by simple advice and rules.

First of all, it is necessary to determine the place where to put a swing at the cottage. There may be space at the reservoir. The only minus from such a neighborhood is a large number of mosquitoes that can darken the rest. If you still want to set the swing next to the reservoir, it would be nice to purchase an option with an anti-mosquito net, for example, a good solution is the REDFORD 502 Green swing.

In addition, many lovers of dacha rest prefer to set a swing next to the mangal. In this case, remember the rules of fire safety, and set the design at a distance of at least 2-3 meters from the alleged fire. It is important to note that choosing a place for garden swings, you can not worry about how the side of the sun rays will fall. The fact is that you can always adjust the awning so that it is reliably protected from summer heat. In addition to the above, do not forget about the mobility of these structures. This means that you can easily move the swing to another place. An excellent solution for setting the swing is natural canopies in the form of trees that will help create additional protection from the sun and the atmosphere of comfort.

The next stage is the preparation of the site. The main advantage of REDFORD swing is the structure of the structure. Unlike traditional options on the legs, these models have a solid arcuate support, which makes it possible to install them on any surface, whether it is a concrete coating or a traditional lawn, thanks to which you can not think about what to put garden swings.

The only thing you should take care in advance is the work on the ending and alignment of the appropriate platform, the size of which directly depends on the dimensions of the swing. For example, you can choose models for two, three and even four people. Naturally, the Redford 592 Bordo swing will be required at times less space than for the Redford 502 Green model. If you buy a swing with dimensions 2284x1465x1700 mm, the size of the site is planned at least 30 cm more. For a comfortable stay, you will need an even dense surface with any coating.

Since the design bench is in constant motion, there should be no foreign objects in the radius of swinging, such as children's sandboxes, walls of structures and others. In addition to the above, do not forget that the swing is designed for a specific load. If you are planning to relax on them with a big family, it is better to take three and four-seater models that easily withstand weight exceeding 300 kg. As you can see, resolve the question how to install swings in the country, quite simple.