When you were a kid..

[C.Ann]

Did you have a wooden swing hung from a tree?

I did - and I can see it in my mind as clear as day.. It was red - and hanging from our apple tree..

 

[nataliela]

nope- we lived in a newly developed neighborhood- so no good trees.

I actually climbed the tree in my parents yard for the 1st time a year ago! It was to get a dead branch out so it wouldn't land on the car. My dad was impressed with my cat like skills!

 

[MouseHouseUK]

Yep... when I used to visit my aunt she had a swing which they put in for me.

Was hung from a huge oak tree and it was simply a skateboard with a hole drilled in each end where rope was threaded through. Played on it until the sun set most days. I loved that swing. The farm now has new tenants - the tree sadly has gone

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

Nope. But my grandma had a wooden porch swing. I can remember exactly how it creaked, and how the metal chains would clink.

 

[LindaG4458]

My dad actually made me a trapeze in a pine tree out on our side hill. I loved it. We also had a tree house out there - just a platform built onto three trees. We'd sit up there all the time.

The house was sold and an additional house built on the side hill. The tree house trees might still be there but the trapeze tree is definitely gone.

 

[Camicar]

Nope. We had a cheap metal swingset which my father refused to set into the ground bec he was sure we would swing too high and kill ourselves. So in his infinite wisdom he just set it into some loose sand. So our game became seeing how high we both could swing to see how high the legs of the set would come off the sand. And yes, more than once, we tipped it over. He still refused to set it into the ground and anchor it.

 

[oliviansmom17]

I had one at my Dad's house. My Step-Mom kept telling him the rope was worn and that he should replace it. He refused...One day I pulled back as far as I could..right over the paved driveway. Rope broke. I slammed hard onto the pavement and was unable to move my legs for a few moments. Couldn't feel anything from the waist down. Eventually, all was well. Now my kids have one- with a rope I inspect every five minutes. It's over the grass, too. No pavement anywhere. And I've ridden it. I can still feel my legs...

 

[MomofKatie]

We had a metal swingset in the backyard of our city neighborhood home when I was little. A few years later, we lived on a farm and had several tire swings hanging from trees around the property. We also loved to swing on an old rope in the barn- we'd start in the hayloft and swing right out of the big doors. Good times!!

 

[DISUNC]

No.

I grew up in Brooklyn, and there was only one Tree that grew there....and well you know the rest of the story!

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

Not a wooden one, but a tire swing hung between 2 pine trees and boy was it alot of fun.

Suzanne

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I had a tire swing. It hung from a beautiful old white ash that, as of last year, was destroyed by Emerald Ash Borer and had to be cut down. My mom cried when she had to get rid of that tree.

 

[taheenee]

We didn't but one of my good friends in grade school had the best swing. It was on top of a little hill in her back yard but on the other side was a really big drop-off so that once you were swinging you were waaaaaay out and above the ground. I so loved that swing! Tho, I have to say, looking back on it now, as a parent, I'd probably have a heart attack seeing my DD on it!

 

[sha_lyn]

yep at my m-grandparents. Also there was a tire swing in my neighborhood.

 

[MM27]

we always had a regular swing set in the backyard. My friends that lived across the street from me had a tire swing on their tree in their front yard. Their dad got this huge tire and we would swing all afternoon on it after school and in the summer.

 

[agentpleakley]

Yep -- mine was made of wood and heavy heavy rope and hung from a huge crabapple tree.


My kids have one today and they swing on that more than on their swingset.

 

[suzimar57]

we had a swing made from 2 lengths of rope and a piece of wood, hanging from a beam of the "shanty" (that's what we called it - was an old chicken coop actually) in one of our backyards (we had 3 - first yard was a formal garden, back yard was where grandpa grew veggies and had fruit trees, and the back back yard was where the old trolley line used to pass thru...)

the swing wasn't up very long - as a child, i remember using it once and fell off, scraping my knee - grandpa removed it after that

i should mention we lived in my grandparents (100+ year old) house - my mother grew up there, and she and my aunts used that swing for many years - until along i came, klutz that i was!

 

[sunnyday123]

my best friend had one. We loved it, till I got my waist length, super thick hair wound around the rope.

Got a Dorothy Hamill haircut that afternoon. My Mom cried the whole time.

 

[Turtle]

Not a wooden one, but one with a plastic seat and chains that was hung from our gumbo limbo tree. I remember I would sit in the swing and start twisting the chains in a circle so that I could spin myself silly. But if I wasn't careful with my fingers, OUCH! I also had a tire swing, and I would give myself rope burns with that, lol.

 

[Freyja]

No. But I always wanted one.