Trampoline owners a Question

[kaylajr]

How do you store your trampoline for the winter

do you take it all apart or just lean it up or what???????


TIA

 

[N.Bailey]

We have always taken ours down for the winter. I know some leave em up year round though.

 

[soccercruiser87]

i leave mine up year round...havent had any problems with it.

 

[pattyT]

I have leaned it up against the garage - and the weight of the snow caused problems -
so now I just leave it up and the sun melts any ice/snow pretty quick usually!
My cousin took hers down the first year she got it - she said NEVER again - it was a pitb!

 

[Deb in IA]

How about the local landfill?

PEDIATRICIANS WARN AGAINST DANGERS OF HOME TRAMPOLINES



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For Release: May 3, 1999, 5 p.m. (ET)

Below is a news release on a revised policy published in the May issue of Pediatrics, the peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

CHICAGO - A revised policy from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that trampolines should not be used at home - either indoors or outdoors. The policy goes on to recommend that trampolines should not be part of routine physical education classes in schools, and that the trampoline has no place in outdoor playgrounds and should never be regarded as play equipment.

“Despite all currently available measures to prevent injury, the potential for serious injury while using a trampoline remains. The need for supervision and trained personnel at all times makes home use extremely unwise,” states the revised policy.

Based on data collected by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), the AAP found that trampoline related injuries are on the rise.

Trampoline-related injuries increased 140 percent from 1990 to 1996.
An estimated 83,400 trampoline-related injuries requiring an emergency department visit occurred in 1996 in the United States.
30 percent of trampoline-related injuries treated in an emergency department were fractures, often resulting in hospitalization and surgery.
Catastrophic cervical spine injuries are rare, however head and neck injuries constitute a notable number of the more serious injuries requiring hospitalization.
Since 1990, the CPSC has received reports of six deaths involving trampolines. Victims ranged in age from 3 years through 21 years. Most deaths occurred when victims fell from the trampolines, and most involved the spinal cord.
The AAP concluded that the largest proportion of trampoline-related injuries occurred on home trampolines and that most trampoline-related injuries occurred either while children played on trampolines or as they fell off. They also found that most injuries happen when there are simultaneous multiple users.

If there is an environment in which a trampoline will be used, the AAP offers guidelines on design and behavioral use in order to lessen the chance of injury.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 55,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults

 

[bananiem]

 

[Deb in IA]

Hi bananiem!!

Did you see the Hawks this weekend? Maybe they still have a chance this year . . .

 

[bananiem]

Hi bananiem!!

Did you see the Hawks this weekend? Maybe they still have a chance this year . . .

Keeping my fingers crossed! I was there when they beat Illinois.

 

[Deb in IA]

Oh yeah! Forgot that it was Homecoming last week. . . .

Although the PINK locker rooms were the big story of that week, did you hear the latest about the little vandalism incident on the brand new sod at Kinnick that slowly appeared at that game, and more so the following week?

 

[crazyforgoofy]

Deb, I appreciate your professional opinion. However, I bought Isabella a trampoline WITH A SURROUND after my friend who is an emergency room doc (25 years experience) told me the only injuries he'd treated from trampoline use were: a) falling off the trampoline and meeting the ground or a solid object with significant force; b) falling off and landing in poison ivy (only one case but he remembered it; c) adult achilles tendon injuries; and d) fractures or head injuries sustained because two or more people were jumping at the same time. He told me he felt we'd manage a trampoline safely and enforce the rules (1.one person on the tramp at a time with the surround safely attached and closed 2. we allowed no front flips).

Isabella is a gymnastics student and uses a gymnastics tramp twice a week. She's learned good safety there and practices it at home.

Oh and OP I haven't had it long enough to store it but if it's as hard to take apart as it was to put together we'll be leaving it up for the winter and hoping it makes it safely through.

 

[Galahad]

Hi bananiem!!

Did you see the Hawks this weekend? Maybe they still have a chance this year . . .

But they prevailed over the old Alma Mater, didn't they? Quite wierd when Purdue is 2-3 and IU is 4-1.

 

[kaylajr]

Okay this is nuts

I didn't ask to start a anti trampoline thread

ours has a safety surround around it NOT that that is ANYONES business

i just wanted to know how to store it properly for the winter

If you have nothing constructive to say
than please just STAY OFF MY THREAD

thank you very much

 

[Deb in IA]

But they prevailed over the old Alma Mater, didn't they? Quite wierd when Purdue is 2-3 and IU is 4-1.

Strange world. Even stranger, Penn State 17, Ohio State 10!!

 

[pozey]

We keep ours up year-round. The weather we have here is odd. We could have a foot of snow one day and 75 degree weather 2 days later. The kids still jump on it during the winter on nice days. We just have to make sure it is kept clean. We have the protective netting around it as well.

Also....just wanted to add.....my 6 year old son broke his arm this past summer. Got his cast off the day before we left for WDW.

Was he one of those "statistics" from the article posted above??? Nope. How did he break his arm? He fell off the bed. Not jumping on the bed....just fell off....

So, anyone can get injured anytime doing anything.......

 

[WDWMom]

Okay this is nuts

I didn't ask to start a anti trampoline thread

ours has a safety surround around it NOT that that is ANYONES business

i just wanted to know how to store it properly for the winter

If you have nothing constructive to say
than please just STAY OFF MY THREAD

thank you very much

You go girl

I thought that post was in very poor taste.

We take the pads, springs and the jumping part down each year and leave the frame up. Looks just like new after several years.

 

[cepmom]

we had one and left it up year round. This past winter, we had a ton of snow, and I think the amount of snow and the length of time it was sitting on the trampoline caused it to stretch out ~ it wasn't bouncy anymore. We just had to take it down and throw it out.

 

[bananiem]

For those of you that don't know it, Deb in IA is a doctor in the department of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She spreads the word about many dangers to children so she doesn't have to see so many of them injured in her department.

 

[Deb in IA]

Facts are FACTS, and aren't in "good" or "bad" taste.

And anything I can do to prevent childhood injury, disability, and death is THE most 'constructive' thing I can do.

 

[tiggger1]

Facts are FACTS, and aren't in "good" or "bad" taste.

And anything I can do to prevent childhood injury, disability, and death is THE most 'constructive' thing I can do.

fine but this wasnt a post if trampolines are safe or not. It must be a slow day to turn an innocent thread into a debate....

 

[Galahad]

fine but this wasnt a post if trampolines are safe or not. It must be a slow day to turn an innocent thread into a debate....

It's not really a debate nor a sign of a slow day. Look at it like this, if a person posted - "help me decide what kind of low tar cigarettes I should buy" - and an oncologist posted that they thought they shouldn't use the product it would be no different. You can't expect someone to just ignore the topic when they see it if they've seen kids mamed and killed by the things.