Is this a playground slide and how to mount it?

[remagenman]

So, I bought a slide for $10 but upon further inspection once home it looks like a chute of some sort. It's about 10 feet long and pretty durable.

Now how to mount it? It has these wooden rails along the sides that are held in place by rounded bolts. I have a elevated treehouse with a 4 foot landing for the top.

Thanks.

 

[logical]

That looks more like a cobbled together chute that a demolition crew used to aim debris out a window into a dumpster below.

 

[jack stand]

I would unbolt the 2 side "rails" and replace and extend them full length with the correct angle (parallel) where it contacts the ground.
The concern would be splinters or anything else that might hurt little hands.
If you used a 2x8 for the new rails, they could be fastened like stair stringers.
It sure looks like it could be a playground slide to me.

 

[35Ford]

Looks just like the slide on an older Rainbow Play system.

 

[remagenman]

Looks just like the slide on an older Rainbow Play system.

Thanks, couldn't find a pic anywhere online for this slide.

 

[remagenman]

Thanks to 35Ford I can see how its mounted and legs made for it.

 

[drmarkr]

I foresee some itchy asses.....

 

[Old Man Roger]

I foresee some itchy asses.....

Yup, sun dried and degraded, better suited for a rubbish shoot.

 

[Fixr]

Sand it & take a heat gun to it. It'll be fine...

 

[Mezz2006]

I foresee some itchy asses.....

Yup, sun dried and degraded, better suited for a rubbish shoot.

Its plastic, not fiberglass. Like Fixr said, heatgun and some sandpaper where needed and it could look like new again.

 

[mike93lx]

I bet a weedburner would freshen it right up.

 

[remagenman]

It's pretty slick, the dirt you see will be washed off.

 

[NUTTSGT]

I foresee some itchy asses.....

That doesn't bother kids. . . .

 

[Aaron_W]

Its plastic, not fiberglass. Like Fixr said, heatgun and some sandpaper where needed and it could look like new again.

Burlap sacks, a can of Turtle Wax and a dozen kid's bottoms to polish it, should do the trick.

 

[Metallitubby]

I foresee some itchy asses.....

Imagine the sound our butts would make if the ****-crack was horizontal versus vertical...

 

[Old Man Roger]

Reminds me of an old joke about sliding down a railing, but I digress.lol

 

[35Ford]

The one I have is 30 years old and is still in really good shape and is now used by the grandkids. A little silicon spray will help speed up the ride to the bottom.

 

[Bill T]

When I was a kid my Dad purchased some old (think 50 yrs old) playground equipment when a park was replaced. The slide was about 14 feet long made with stainless steel for the sliding surface. It was so old that you could sit at the top of the slide on the slope and not move. We discovered the hot tip- get Mama's wax paper out of the kichen. Sit on the wax paper (with wax side down). After
a few runs, the slide worked like new.

 

[remagenman]

When I was a kid my Dad purchased some old (think 50 yrs old) playground equipment when a park was replaced. The slide was about 14 feet long made with stainless steel for the sliding surface. It was so old that you could sit at the top of the slide on the slope and not move. We discovered the hot tip- get Mama's wax paper out of the kichen. Sit on the wax paper (with wax side down). After
a few runs, the slide worked like new.

The good old days of not-OSHA approved playground equipment. How we survived climbing and falling is a miracle. Rubber matt floor?-nope. just hard dirt or cement.

 

[Old Man Roger]

The good old days of not-OSHA approved playground equipment. How we survived climbing and falling is a miracle. Rubber matt floor?-nope. just hard dirt or cement.

There is a surprisingly dangerous playground around here. There's a big Russian comunity here, they probably built it.lol

 

[remagenman]

There is a surprisingly dangerous playground around here. There's a big Russian comunity here, they probably built it.lol

Lol. The Germans know how to keep kids fit and terrified at the same time.

I remember being stationed there and seeing how differently they let kids play and use common sense- you fall, your problem.

 

[Uncle murph]

The good old days of not-OSHA approved playground equipment. How we survived climbing and falling is a miracle. Rubber matt floor?-nope. just hard dirt or cement.

We used to jump off the barn roof into a manure pile,nothing that a little soap couldn’t fix.

 

[MileHighRover]

...I remember being stationed there and seeing how differently they let kids play and use common sense- you fall, your problem.

Here it's I fall, your problem.

 

[yatg]

The good old days of not-OSHA approved playground equipment. How we survived climbing and falling is a miracle. Rubber matt floor?-nope. just hard dirt or cement.

Check out "Hazardous History" hosted by Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz. History Channel.
First episode had segments about playground equipment and toys .

Who wants to build a nuclear reactor?

 

[Old Man Roger]

We used to jump off the barn roof into a manure pile,nothing that a little soap couldn’t fix.

We jumped into snow.

 

[Old Man Roger]

Check out "Hazardous History" hosted by Henry Winkler, aka The Fonz. History Channel.
First episode had segments about playground equipment and toys .

Who wants to build a nuclear reactor?

Google class action park. I would have killed to go there as a kid.lol