How to make a swing to give your own hands

Facilities for fun and entertainment not only allow you to spend time outdoors in comfort and pleasure, they are also part of landscape design. Together with arbors and benches decorate the suburban, house adjoining site. Self-made swings allow owners of private country houses, cottages to relax, calm down, dream, sitting on a swaying bench, besides, self-made designs are the pride of their master, a subject that can be boast to friends and acquaintances.

There are many types of products used by both children and adults. Self-made models can have an uncomplicated mechanism in the form of a seat, which is suspended on a crossbar, and have a different structure, for example, variants of the collective type. In the process of work, you can use any available materials left over from construction and repair activities. Such furniture is installed under the roof, in the shade of trees, on a lawn, specially prepared area.

Features homemade swing

Arrangement of the territory, the right choice and appropriate design of recreation areas is one of the important tasks facing the owner of the house adjoining site. When decorating your possessions with flower beds, gazebos, artificial ponds, you should not neglect such an object as a swing. This is one of the few options for the situation, with which you can complement the landscape, to enjoy the comfortable and cozy stay in the fresh air.

Choosing ready-made purchased designs, it is not always possible to find and select models that meet all the needs, matching the style to the specific situation. In this case, the best option would be making your own hands, because the home-made swings have the following features:

  • Cost Copies made by themselves will cost an order of magnitude cheaper than purchased counterparts, and you can use any available material for work.
  • Originality. Such furniture, made in-house, will be exclusive, favorably differ, will be a matter of pride.
  • Quality. Everyone decides how good the product will be.
  • Model selection. At the design stage, you can independently determine the type of swing for whom they are intended; only children or all family members will use them. The design will be a suspended seat or an entire sofa, mounted under a canopy, having an adjustable backrest.
  • The choice of material. You can make a swing from different types of wood, metal, rubber, plastic, combine raw materials, give a second life to old things.
  • Experience. When building structures, a person gets experience, which can later be used to build other buildings.


What are swings?

Before starting construction, it is necessary to make an assessment of the place where the product will be installed, to consider its purpose, to determine the seasonality of use. It is also important to choose a design that does not spoil the general appearance of the site, decorate the landscape.

You can classify the swing based on different parameters:

  • According to the method of installation, they can be stationary and collapsible.
  • Swing vertically or horizontally. In the first case, it is a swing swing, in the form of a crossbar, mounted on a support, which is in the middle. In the second - it is suspended options.
  • By age, all products are divided into children and adults.
  • By the number of places - single, double, multi-seat.
  • By type of construction - frame, frameless structures. In the first variant, the role of a carrier can be played by tree branches. The latter are distinguished by a more complex device, where the crossbar is laid on reliable supports, and the seat is held on metal rods or chains.
  • By the presence of a canopy - open and closed options.
  • In form there are no restrictions at all. Both the frame and the seat have the most diverse appearance, they can include forged elements, have an original, unique design. Represent a hammocks, sofas, easy chairs, deck chairs, have the appearance of boats, rockets, imitate animals and birds.


Material for production

Standard designs are made of wood or metal, as well as combinations of these materials. Plastic seats are also used. However, at home, with an independent construction of the product, there are practically no restrictions on the choice of raw materials; everything that can be found on your site, whether it is metal pipes, old sofas or tires of automobile wheels, will do. Let us dwell in more detail on the main components used in the process of work:

  • Rope. Allows you to build a rope version, in the form of "bungee". The most elementary way to create a handicraft-game construction for swinging, it is enough to tie a long rope to a tree branch or crossbar, and attach a wooden seat or a log to it, from below, which you can take up with your hands.
  • Tree. Classic building material. With it, you can perform any design in shape and complexity. At the same time it is easy to work with wood, which allows even an inexperienced beginner to create beautiful swings that fit into any garden.
  • Metal. Working with this material will require welding skills. The resulting structures are durable, durable. Both ordinary welded and elegant forged structures for the street can be made from raw materials. The only disadvantage of the pipe is their susceptibility to oxidation, therefore, the metal surface must be treated with special coatings.
  • Plastic. The material is used mainly for seats that can withstand the small weight of the child. To build a simple construction, it is enough to make holes in a plastic seat and attach it to a rope suspended on a branch or crossbar. Can be completed with other materials.

With all its strength, wood does not tolerate precipitation, temperature fluctuations, therefore, in order to extend the life of the product, it is necessary to process the wood with special impregnations, varnishes and paints.


Suspended swing do it yourself

Such models are well installed in the gazebo or under a shed, on the patio or on the terrace, under the canopy of trees or in an open area. The construction can be made of different materials, for convenience, the seat is additionally equipped with a backrest and armrests. Such furniture is fastened to the crossbar, branch, to the ceiling of the structure with the help of metal rods or chains, long ropes or ropes. For clarity, we consider a few examples of what and how you can independently build a swing.


Tire swing

The elastic shell mounted on the rim of the disk is used as a material for many handicrafts and structures erected in the local area. This is a great component from which you can build such an exciting attraction as a swing. This can be done in several ways:

  1. Vertical position A one-piece tire is enough to tie with a rope and hang on a crossbar or branch.
  2. Horizontal To do this, lay the tire flat on the side surface and drill 3-4 symmetrical holes with respect to the center. Rope through them, in the case of 4 holes - you can start one of them, and pull the rope fasteners from the other, and with 3 holes, fix the ends of the rope inside the rubber casing with strong knots. You can also use a metal chain with hooks that are attached to the tire with washers and nuts.
  3. From cut tires. The shell is cut to a specific pattern. Basically, the inside of the tread portion serves as a seat. You can make a variety of options, it all depends on the chosen scheme.

Swing from the boards

The classic model is a board suspended from a branch or bar with four holes at the edges through which a rope or a rope is passed. Instead of a board, you can give a new life to old chairs, wooden lattices, round logs.

Interesting options are obtained from wooden pallets, which often remain after construction work. Make them the original swing is not difficult for anyone. Enough to process the surface with sandpaper, remove the splinters, make it smooth. Then the pallet is covered with impregnations and varnishes, painted. After drying, under the upper tier of the structure, two long ropes are run on both sides, the free ends of which are tied into a common knot. It remains only to hang the product on the crossbar, attach to the ceiling. For comfort, you can add a back, install soft seats.

For work, you can use the old skate, snowboard. These boards are durable, can serve as an excellent seat. At the same time they do not need to be cleaned or processed, it is enough to make 4 holes along the edges and fix them on the support. In the same way, you can use logs that need to be linked into a single plane.

Hoop or hula hoop swing

From the old metal or aluminum hoop can build an excellent design, designed for a comfortable stay. This can be done in several ways:

Consider a simple workshop on the example of how to make an unusual hammock out of a hula-hoop.

  1. Hula-hoop is laid on a piece of cloth, cut out of it two solid circles, the diameter of which is 30 cm larger than the rim used. For work we use only dense fabric, it is better to use denim, quilted fabric, burlap.
  2. In one of the pieces of fabric cut around, we sew a zipper, in order to do this, it is necessary to cut the canvas in the middle, without reaching the edges. The length of the cut, like lightning, is made equal to the diameter of the hoop with a margin of 1 cm.
  3. Next, with the help of a sewing machine, we sew the two obtained segments, for this we fold them with each other with the front side.
  4. Turning the cover on the front side, we make 4 holes in it.
  5. It is also necessary to drill holes in the hula hoop.
  6. To make the structure more comfortable, we trim the rim with a padding polyester and place it inside the case.
  7. To hang the product, 4 sections of rope of different lengths will be needed, one pair should be 50-60 cm longer than the other.
  8. We thread the ropes into the holes, tighten them on the hoop, and each pair must be different in length from different sides.
  9. It remains only to attach the structure to a branch or overlap.

Attraction "web" of the hoop step by step:

  1. We strengthen the place of the soldering of the hoop with the help of metal plates or wire.
  2. Divide the circle into 8 equal parts, make a marker mark. For better fixation of the rope, it is necessary to drill 8 symmetric holes in the cavity.
  3. Cut off 8 pieces of rope, the length of which is equal to two diameters of a circle with a small margin, you must use a strong cord with a thickness of 4-5 mm.
  4. We double the rope, wind up the holes on both sides, stretch, make knots, or if there are no holes, make a loop on one side and a knot on the other. Rope sagging can reach 5 cm.
  5. Next, perpendicular to the tensioned rope, attach the next cable, interlacing with the first one in the middle crosswise.
  6. In the same way we start and fix the remaining six segments.
  7. In the absence of holes, with a needle and thread sheathe all attachment points, as well as the middle.
  8. Fix to the hoop 4 carabiners, setting them symmetrically relative to the center, at the points of attachment of the ropes.
  9. We sheathe the hoop with padding polyester and make a blanket along the contour of the fabric.
  10. Getting down to the longest time occupation - weaving the web. We start work from the center, we make the distance between the rings 4-5 cm, weaving each rope with each other, hemming the junctions with threads.
  11. After the construction is ready, it remains only to choose a place for its placement.


Tarpaulin swing

To make the construction of such a material, you need a chain, two metal triangles, a piece of thick tarpaulin. To begin with, we cut a strip of a necessary form from a dense canvas. We wind both ends of the canvas into metal triangles and fold them down, connecting them to the main part of the fabric. Next, using rivets, we connect each edge with the plane of the fabric. Instead of rivets, you can use regular bolts with nuts. Also from this material it is possible to construct more complex structures in the form of hammocks, to cover with it metal frames, to use as a canopy.

Due to the fact that the canvas is impregnated with refractory, waterproof, as well as impregnation from rotting, raw materials are perfect as a basis or an additional component of street structures.


Wooden swing on the supports

The best material for the manufacture of durable swing - wooden beam. Square lumber provides a simple assembly of the structure, easy adjustment of parts, connecting corners. The favorite garden element of landscape designers is happily used by kids and adults. Such swings can be made independently of any size and shape.


We determine the size and proportions

The construction of a wooden swing should begin with the drafting of the draft. It is important to take into account their purpose, the number of family members. They can be of various types. The following homemade options are popular:

  • Family. They have a large capacity, 4-5 people can easily fit. The bench is wide from long boards. It is possible to add a design with a canopy;
  • Baby. Simple swings can have various modifications. They mainly consist of a support, seat and fasteners. Particular attention should be paid to safety - to make a comfortable back, side partitions, provide straps for reliable fixation of the child;
  • Portable. Light swings of small size are collected according to a special scheme. Folding elements quickly dismantled, moved, transported to any point.


Location and mounting racks to the ground

Stationary structures must be securely fixed in the ground, so that they do not turn over while moving chains or metal rods. On the selected site mark the place for the racks, dig digging. The bottom of each pit we fall asleep with sand to protect the structure from distortions and subsidence. Layer must be at least 10 cm.

Before you put the supports in the grooves, their lower part should be treated with bitumen mastic or wrap with roofing paper. In the pit they should be in a strictly horizontal position. Fill them with cement mortar. While the mixture is not dry, the position of the racks can be adjusted. Further work can be carried out at least 10 days later.

Methods of fastening cross member

A wooden crossbar, to which a bench or seat is hooked, can be fixed in several ways. If the swing is in a prominent place in the courtyard, it is better to use options with the aesthetics condition. They are complex in execution, but will give the street structure a special, presentable appearance. The crossmember can be securely fastened as follows:

  1. To the laid-on bar, attached below the intersection of two supports;
  2. Lay support beam between crossed side posts;
  3. Fastening "in half the tree." Special cuts are created at the joints.

Seat construction

The seat of a wooden swing should also be made of wood. This is one of the most simple, convenient materials. It is easy to process, provides full scope for the manifestation of fantasy. From it you can create a real carved work of art.

It is possible to make a simple construction from two frames - one detail is designed for sitting, the other for the back. We make them stiffeners and connect with each other with the help of corners, screws. According to the instructions, we screw the special bolts into the front beam of the seat and the upper part of the backrest. Such a seat can be used for outdoor construction or in the apartment.

Choose a seat mount to the crossbar: rope or chain

To make a choice between synthetic, natural rope and metal, it is necessary to determine the seasonality of use of the subject, its reliability. Metal structures are significantly different in their strength, besides, they are durable, tolerate frost well. For bulky structures, on which several people can simultaneously accommodate, it is better to use a metal chain, besides, the swings slower to stop.

The rope is much cheaper than metal, it is more pleasant to the touch, but it can grind, therefore, requires periodic revision, visual inspection of the state. In addition, this material for the swing is less durable. This is a great option for hanging simple single items, hammocks.

Metal swing on support stands

Before starting work, it is necessary to determine the type of product, whether it will be portable or stationary, equipped with a canopy made of polycarbonate, stretched awning, designed for a child or an adult. For clarity, we consider a master class on the construction of a stationary structure:

  1. Берем профильную трубу 40х40 мм или 50х50 мм, с помощью болгарки отрезаем 4 одинаковых отрезка длиной 2,5 м, и еще 2 по 1 м. Для перекладины понадобится круглая труба диаметром 30 мм, длиной 2 м.
  2. On the one hand, on all 4 long profiles used as side racks, we cut the edges at an angle of 30 °, after which we weld the pipes in pairs at the cut points, resulting in two isosceles triangles.
  3. To strengthen the structure, approximately at the level of 2 m from the top, we apply short segments, we determine at what angle it is necessary to cut off both edges of each pipe, so that they fit tightly to the structure, form a single plane with it. Cutting the edges, weld the horizontal lintels.
  4. To the tops of the struts, resembling the letter A, we weld a round crossbar.
  5. We form the frame of the seat. To do this, we cut 5 lengths of 1.5 m from the round pipe with a diameter of 20 mm, and another 6 by 0.5 m. We weld the seat into a single design, for this we expand three long pipes so that the distance between the two extremes is 0.5 m, over them we put three smaller segments, two in the corners, one in the middle. In the same way we form a back, with the only difference, without one long crossbar on one side. We combine the two parts together at the required angle. On each of the sides we weld two special eye-nuts that will be used for fastening the metal chain.
  6. We cover the frame with wooden slats 30x30, 20x40, 30x60 mm, 1.5 m long, connecting the bars with metal with the help of bolts and nuts.
  7. Stepping back 25 cm from each edge, we drill holes in the crossbar, into which eye-bolts will be placed.
  8. With the help of carbines hang the seat on a metal chain.
  9. Next, set the swing. To do this, in the place where the structure will be installed, we dig out 4 holes with a depth of 40 cm, we will fall asleep a cushion of sand up to 10 cm at the bottom of the pit.
  10. Knead the concrete solution.
  11. Swing set risers in the pits, each iron pipe strengthened in the hole with stones, pour concrete.
  12. After the solution has dried, the product can be used.



Conclusion

Hand-made swings will be an excellent complement to any house adjoining site. They will help to make the rest in the fresh air comfortable and cozy, will delight both kids and adults, allow you to enjoy the flight, lift your spirits. The self-made design will be a pride of its owner, to testify to its good taste, will decorate with itself the territory.

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