Trampoline frame raised bed - Ideas please.

[veggiechicken]

This is what all the fuss has been about A word of advice to anyone with thoughts on recycling trampolines - Don't try to assemble it on your own! I didn't even know I knew those swear words. I still can't fit the final piece in place - so I've left it to stew in WD40 overnight.

Still pondering on where it will go and how it will be used

[Kaiya]

It just looks so incredibly useful. For what, I've no idea!

[snohare]

Funnily enough, there was a trampoline at the local landfill site when I was there the other day. All neatly disassembled, bagged up etc. I took one look at the bags and remembering this thread, decided to give a body swerve to the metal work. (Wasn't feeling very springlike anyway.)
Took the trampoline fabric bittie though. Current ideas I'm mulling over are suspend it between two posts as a sunshade/windbreak, use it in strips as a fence, maybe use it as mulch matting for my tatties...any suggestions folks ?

[veggiechicken]

Snohare, I'm so disappointed in you. After all the suggestions on here for reuse and you pass it by. I can't even help with the fabric as I've never been up close and personal to a trampoline (apart from one New Year's Eve, dressed as a penguin - but that's another story )

[snohare]

Be fair Veggie, it's a 400m walk to the bus stop and a gey lang walk if the bus driver decides he's not having that on his bus...
Jokes about "p..p..p..pick up a penguin", and romance on the rebound spring to mind...

[veggiechicken]

Actually, I did get on the bus dressed as a penguin Along with 2 Mutant Ninja Turtles, a man riding a stuffed horse and a Fairy who was upset because she'd left her wand in the pub toilet. We were walking up the hill, homeward bound, when the bus stopped and offered us a lift! How could we refuse and it amused the other passengers
But, as usual, I've lost the thread.....

[lottie dolly]

Funnily enough, there was a trampoline at the local landfill site when I was there the other day. All neatly disassembled, bagged up etc. I took one look at the bags and remembering this thread, decided to give a body swerve to the metal work. (Wasn't feeling very springlike anyway.)
Took the trampoline fabric bittie though. Current ideas I'm mulling over are suspend it between two posts as a sunshade/windbreak, use it in strips as a fence, maybe use it as mulch matting for my tatties...any suggestions folks ?

slug rebounder,put garden produce on the dry out,of the ground,like onions,tatties,before putting away,strawberry mulch mats,providing it,s not frayble fabric and you cannot seal the edges,it largely depends on what fabric it is,although a rubbery one would only attract the slugs to your plants,there you go,a slug attracter,

[Mikey]

Actually, I did get on the bus dressed as a penguin Along with 2 Mutant Ninja Turtles, a man riding a stuffed horse and a Fairy who was upset because she'd left her wand in the pub toilet. We were walking up the hill, homeward bound, when the bus stopped and offered us a lift! How could we refuse and it amused the other passengers
But, as usual, I've lost the thread.....

Had you been visiting that couple with the huge pot plant VC?

[veggiechicken]

Wot? The aspidistra???

[Mikey]

I did a little search to see if I could find some others who had reused a trampoline these are pictures I came across.







Some interesting ideas

The last one if you can't figure it out is being modified into a carport. This needs more than one trampoline though.

[snohare]

Wot? The aspidistra???

The way you bounce from thread to thread on this forum Veggie, I would have thought it was a rubber plant you'd been chewing on !

[veggiechicken]

Thank you gentlemen!! Some good ideas there, Mikey
My trampoline would have been more versatile if it had 4 base sections - to make 2 identical halves. A tunnel or arch might have been possible then. I keep looking at it, convinced that I can remodel it somehow. I could remove the base sections and sink the uprights into the ground, to make it low enough to step into. BUT there are so many tree roots and rocks that I doubt that I could get it level - and it wouldn't be as rigid, or movable as it is now. On the other hand, I can only get into it by limboing under the bar Cutting out a section will destroy the integrity of the framework. Leaving one section disconnected doesn't leave enough space to sidle through.
Wonder whether there are any more on Freecycle????

[Mikey]

If you cut away a section either side of one of the legs, wouldn't that still give you stability?

[veggiechicken]

Ummmm, I'm not sure what that image is?? Black Rod?
If you look at the photos in http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1037228 each leg has a curved section attached to it that slots into the top of the next leg. If I cut off part of the curved section, it leaves an unsupported bit dangling in midair.
I tried resting a leg on bricks, instead of slotting it in, hoping that I could pull it apart wide enough to get through, but it was just too rigid.

[veggiechicken]

Ah right!! I see the doctored photo Just off down the garden for another look!