How to Build a Tree House

BUILDER NEWS
May 25, 2006
VOLUME II, NUMBER IX
Special Projects by Carson L. Priest
Local boy shows architecture skills
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Christmas in Germany

by building toy Mansion
minor tree issues to think about.
Tree houses should be designed to
rest on major branches and nestle
around the tree trunk. Never wound
the tree with nails, screws and saw
notches.
Trees bend and twist in the wind.
So simply jamming or wedging
boards between branches or into
crotches will lead to failure. Use
rope to make sure a tree house
stays snug against a branch.
Attaching it to branches with rope
can keep windstorms from blowing
it away. It can keep ambitious and
ingenious children from changing

Carson Priest of Kennesaw, Georgia and The Bullard School builds the
design
concepts
and
injuring
above mansion with lincoln logs, wood blocks and big legos.
themselves, too.

Carefully consider how children will
How to Build a Tree House There's an attraction between
enter the tree house. Don't nail

trees and children.
ladder rungs into the trunk. Use a
When the kids are out of school
self-supporting ladder tied to the
you may be tempted to build a A tree's constant motion, even in
tree or a heavy, unlooped, knotted
treehouse for them to play in during still air, and its great size and
rope. For many trees with low
the summer. Before you head off reach make it fascinating. At
with hammer, nails and planks in some time in your life you've
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hand, plan your design to minimize imagined, or maybe even built, a
damage to the tree. A few tree house.
Lincoln Logs started with log
summer’s of enjoyment could lead
homes. Today, we are one of the
to the death of a prized landscape When you see your 10-year-old
largest and most respected log
specimen.
Dr.
Kim
Coder, headed toward your yard tree
home producers in the industry.
Extension tree guru, has these tips with a hammer, nails and scrap
But, we offer much more. Our
for
treehouse
construction: lumber,
immediate
decisions
traditionally-framed
homes
and

need to be made.
timber frame homes offer the same
•No nails or screws should be put
attention to detail, yet present
The only major concern is the
into
the
tree
trunk.
entirely different approaches to
child's safety. But there are some

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