Question about Trampoline's

[GoofyG]

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[karliebug]

Please reconsider this, especially for such young children. My neighbor is an ER nurse and she sees so many kids and adults,too, with injuries from falling off, bumping into others, or having limbs sticking through the sides. Did you know that most home insurance policies require you to add additional coverage if you own a trampoline? I don't think they are so lightweight as to blow away so I doubt that would be a problem unless you have a tornado.

 

[cjstarr]

I was looking at getting a trampoline for my girls. Thier birthday's are this week and in 2 weeks. I need something that the 2yr old can burn some energy. My question is, are they very light weight? I live in Oklahoma and our wind can get very strong. Where I'm going to be putting it if it blows over to easy it can blow into my patio door. I'll have the safety enclosure too. I'm just needing some opinions about them.

You can always stake it to the ground it's not that hard to do. You can find the equipment at most hardware stores.
imho Your biggest concern should be someone breaking an arm or leg!
My Friends son broke his Femur on a trampoline when he jumped and caught his leg in between the mat and the outside of it. I would also prepare the ground around it to try and prevent any serious accident from happening as much as possible.

 

[Beehn]

You might look at getting one of those inflatable bouncers. We have one. It works well with smaller children, IMO. I feel that it is safer than the regular trampoline, but I may just be trying to convince myself of that. So far we haven't had any accidents, but we have strict rules about using it. I thought it might work for you because you can take it up and down easily, so you don't have to worry about something sitting in your yard that might blow away.

 

[_queenie_]

Your biggest concern should be someone breaking an arm or leg!

My DD13 almost needed to have pins put in her elbow (she really did, but just barely so the doc decided not to) because she broke her arm on a family friend's trampoline. She didn't fall off or anything, her elbow touched the ground (while on it in the middle) because it wasn't very tight.

Just a word of warning!

 

[MickeyWanaBe]

We live in Southern IL and have had some pretty stong winds and have never had a problem with ours moving. The trampolines are pretty heavy, at least ours is. It is even heavier with the safety enclosure.

As for the safety thing...
The enclosure will prevent the falling off the sides. Make sure you get one where the cage is on the inside of the padding. This prevents them from jumping on or falling through the springs. As for the running into each other or jumping on each other... We have a very strict rule that only one person jumps at a time! When my sister and I were little she got jumpped on while at a friends because there were multiple kids jumping at once.

As long as ther are rules they are relatively safe.

We have the JumpKing brand and love it.
DS is 2 and loves it!

 

[cjstarr]

You might look at getting one of those inflatable bouncers. We have one. It works well with smaller children, IMO. I feel that it is safer than the regular trampoline, but I may just be trying to convince myself of that. So far we haven't had any accidents, but we have strict rules about using it. I thought it might work for you because you can take it up and down easily, so you don't have to worry about something sitting in your yard that might blow away.

Thats what we have for our DS who is now 4.

 

[Matt'nMeg'sMom]

Every kid on my street- every single kid - has broken a limb on the trampoline.

They didn't fall off, and they didn't hit the hard rail, springs, or edges, they just "landed wrong" on the mat.

Two broken wrists, a broken ankle, a broken forearm, and a dislocated elbow (with bone fragments.)

 

[Tam1067]

Our former next door neighbors had a trampoline.

On two separate occasions, their trampoline hit our house. The first time, it just hit the house and made a loud noise. The second time, it hit our house and put a huge hole in the siding--literally a hole with insulation coming out afterwards.

We ended up in a huge issue with them and their insurance company because their company initially refused to pay, as they said it was an "act of God" and not their problem. Our lovely neighbor also refused to pay the deductible because she was angry that we were trying to get her insurance to pay the claim.

I found the manufacturer's warnings that all trampolines are supposed to be staked down to prevent just such a thing from happening, so we ended up getting back the deductible we'd had to pay our insurance to repair our house--but the claim was still on our insurance. It also helped that the trampoline had previously hit our house, so she had advance notice of the problem.

Anyway, we never spoke to that neighbor again...

Just be prepared to be responsible and tie the thing down before an incident happens.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

My neice is 14 and was on the trampoline at her fathers house, decided to do a gymnatic thing and broke both her arms. Trampolines are bad!!!

 

[MickeyWanaBe]

You can always stake it to the ground it's not that hard to do. You can find the equipment at most hardware stores.
imho Your biggest concern should be someone breaking an arm or leg!
My Friends son broke his Femur on a trampoline when he jumped and caught his leg in between the mat and the outside of it. I would also prepare the ground around it to try and prevent any serious accident from happening as much as possible.

If we were to stake ours to the ground and a wind strong enough to move it came along I am afraid it would just take the top and leave the legs staked to the ground. The legs just slide together. Then that also makes it lighter to blow around even more without the legs. I honestly don't think it is going to move unless there are tornado winds...And if there are there are going to be other things to worry about.

We used to move ours around to keep it from killing the grass. It was hard to move, but now that we have the safety cage on it, it take 2 people to move it because it is so heavy.

 

[Tam1067]

If we were to stake ours to the ground and a wind strong enough to move it came along I am afraid it would just take the top and leave the legs staked to the ground. The legs just slide together. Then that also makes it lighter to blow around even more without the legs. I honestly don't think it is going to move unless there are tornado winds...And if there are there are going to be other things to worry about.

We used to move ours around to keep it from killing the grass. It was hard to move, but now that we have the safety cage on it, it take 2 people to move it because it is so heavy.

This is simply not true in all cases. If you look at my post, you can see that my neighbor's DID hit my house twice. It was not during a tornado either time. We had typical windy Chicago area storms in the summer--that's it, and there was no other blowing debris except for that trampoline. Perhaps different trampolines are different, but I speak from personal experience (and a hugely frustrating one by the way).

 

[kjetjl]

We know three kids who broke their legs on trampolines. Just landed wrong as one pp stated.
I always fought DH and let the kids jump on their friends' but after the 3rd kid, I have honored his decision. No more trampolines for us.

I vaguely remember a friend not getting a trampoline because it was going to increase her homeowner's insurance. She said her coverage would be nullified if she had a trampoline and didn't have that on her coverage....I have never been able to verify this? Has anyone else heard of this??

 

[GoofyG]

I'm just looking. Tornado winds I'm use to, can't do anyting about that. Already rebuilt my house after one tornado. We do get very strong winds, some winds are condsidered hurricane forced winds. That can happen even when there aren't any storms around. I live on a corner so no neighbor's house to worry about at least. My 2 yr old thinks it's fun jumping of her bed, and climbs everything.

 

[Mocharilla]

You might look at getting one of those inflatable bouncers. We have one. It works well with smaller children, IMO. I feel that it is safer than the regular trampoline, but I may just be trying to convince myself of that. So far we haven't had any accidents, but we have strict rules about using it. I thought it might work for you because you can take it up and down easily, so you don't have to worry about something sitting in your yard that might blow away.

No! Those still can be very unsafe! There are countless injuries from kids bouncing out, it falling over, etc. There's actually a website that records all the deaths in those, and there's a HUGE amount every year!

Please reconsider this, especially for such young children. My neighbor is an ER nurse and she sees so many kids and adults,too, with injuries from falling off, bumping into others, or having limbs sticking through the sides. Did you know that most home insurance policies require you to add additional coverage if you own a trampoline? I don't think they are so lightweight as to blow away so I doubt that would be a problem unless you have a tornado.

I agree to note the thing about insurance. We had that.

Also, if you do decide to get a trampoline, make sure to take a lot of precautions! My aunt still has one, and there's rules. One or two people on it at a time, no doing certain things, and they have up a netting to surround the kids from the springs.

But, remember, trampolines can be very unsafe! Most people in my family have gotten injured one way or another, and I had a cousin die on a trampoline, because they weren't being safe, and he had a scarf tied around his neck, jumped on it, and he was the only one on it, and he suffocated. Please be VERY careful if you decide to use a Trampoline.

 

[jenrein]

And here I was going to pop in and mention I dont allow my kids on anyones trampoline and I thought I would get a lot of . I'm glad to see I have good reason!

 

[missy2217]

We have a small inflatable bouncer, 6x6 ft. It has walls and my kids love it. They are 5 and 2. One at a time bounces, that is our rule. It actually is in our basement right now. It lets them blow off steam in the winter.

 

[disneylover410]

NO TRAMPOLINES. I HAVE WORKED IN ORTHOPEDICS FOR YEARS AND THEY ARE OUR FRIENDS. THEY ARE SO DANGEROUS AND I HAVE A FRIEND WHOSE 17 YEAR OLD SON BROKE HIS ELBOW 3 YEARS AGO AND IS STILL HAVING SURGERIES TO FIX IT. HE WAS AN AWESOME PITCHER AND HIS CAREER WAS ENDED DUE TO THIS. DON'T DO IT WITH OR WITHOUT A ENCLOSURE THEY ARE DANGEROUS

 

[HerdOHuds]

We live in Southern IL and have had some pretty stong winds and have never had a problem with ours moving.

I, too, live in Southern Illinois and watched our backdoor neighbors' trampoline lift off the ground and flip over, then continue through the backyards in the neighborhood about 3 more times about a month ago with very strong winds. There was some damage from the winds, but it wasn't a tornado or microburst or anything.

A Fireman/EMT friend of ours recommended that we not purchase a trampoline. I was thinking "Large playpen!!!!" and he saw "ER visit". We ended up going without and haven't really regretted the decision.

 

[all4fun]

My ds had a Galt trampoline. This is a mini-trampoline with a handle bar to hold on to. It was actually recommended by his physical therapist because ds had some motor skill delays he thought it would help with. There are also other smaller trampolines that are much safer for young kids to use. I also don't like those big outdoor ones because of all the bad things I've read about them.

Here's a couple I found on amazon.com
Jump Start
Galt trampoline (this is just like the one we have).