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Posted by Dave Draper (Member # 102) on :
 
Hi Heads,

Bought one of those huge round trampolines 3 years ago for the kids. Now, the springs are shot and the mat is ripped.

So, I took it apart, flipped the legs upside down and now I have some neat portable drying racks or a support to saw 4 x 8 sheets of plywood in half. ( The curved sections that hold springs are now "feet")

If I place a plank(s) across the top, I have a portable scaffold to work on my house or that lagre box truck.

Any other uses you can think of?

I was going to string netting across one to use for catching basballs ( a backstop)

If your kids play hocky....guess what, you can make a goal.

What else?

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Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
 
The spring covers on ours just shredded after 5 years, and the rest of the device is in good shape. Our kids like to sleep on the trampoline on summer nights. I'll look out there around midnight and five or six kids might be out there listening to music and chatting and lying in sleeping bags. By morning, they're in a pile in the middle.

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Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
 
Ours is still in jumping order. I go out and jump as high as a kite somedays when I just need a break. Great fun....great exercise. And we sleep on ours in the summer nights too. Actually alot of days I go out and take a little snooze! It is comfortable, plus you get to listen to the birds a chirpin' and the bees a buzzin'.

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Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :
 
My hubby just got us one for a Mother's Day/Cody's b-day combo gift. It's so cool!

We picnic on it, snooze in the sun, escape from the stray chickens and wow, excercise is right!

At this point, if it died, I'd replace all the dead components and keep it a trampoline. It's part of our daily lives now.

I'll go stare at the legs and dream up a use and repost if I come up with something. I never even gave that a thought before.

Dave, do you miss the trampoline aspect of it?

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Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
 
OK... I think trampolines must be a toy for the creative.. look at the number of letterheads that have/had one.. including myself! =)

My parents bought one a long time ago and it lasted a good 15 years.

I remember pretending to be the Incredible Hulk once and tried to fly.. ended up doing a faceplant into the grass. =) Hey, I was only 5 or 6 years old at the time.. =)

The tramp stayed in the yard for a number of years after my parents divorced and sis and I grew up and moved on. Eventually my dad had to take it down because the neighborhood kids were sneaking onto it at night and getting hurt on it while dad was away working.

The mesh surface did make a pretty good shade from the sun on hot summer days though.

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Posted by Karen Tighe (Member # 1541) on :
 
I used mine to propel myself up into the air for a self-portrait when I was taking photography in SMC. I was the only student in the class who was over 30 and the tutor began the first day by looking right at me and saying that he didn't expect that my shots would have the same edge or excitement as the other students due to that fact. Boy did I ever show him.
The little trampoline was out of the shot so it just looked like I was suspended in mid air with my feet in my hands.
(Naturally I didn't tell the tutor that it took me an entire roll of 36 to get just that one perfect shot!)

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Posted by Dave Draper (Member # 102) on :
 
Donna,

Yes I miss the trampoline. Funny thing about it is, we can buy a new trampoline for less than replacing the springs and mat.

I tried to repair ours as long as I could. but gave up. I even sewed the triangular rings (that hold the springs to the mat) back in when they pulled out. Even clipped the ends of the stretched springs to get some tension back.

We probably will replace it.


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Posted by Tyler (Member # 2093) on :
 
I bought one of those huge round trampolines last year, just for fun. It is strange that so many letterheads seem to have one..

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