free trampoline... for the garden

Share your projects and tips
Post Reply
User avatar
JRinPA
Reactions:
Posts: 1746
Joined: Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:35 pm
Location: PA Dutch Country

free trampoline... for the garden

#1

Post: # 51181Unread post JRinPA
Mon Jul 26, 2021 3:30 am

Trampoline? Tramboline? Trampouline?
However you spell it. One of these things. 14ft across, so it says.
tramp1.jpg
I see these free once in a while. What use can it be for a garden?

I have a cheap fcaw wire welder.

What could be made by unsumming these parts?

I've been thinking about going to an overhead string system for tomatoes, but can't decide if this pipe would be useful for that. I've never had one apart. The system would need to be moved each year...unless I go to a permanent tomato patch.

I should probably try to grab it just so some poor kid doesn't end up with a concussion and lockjaw at the same time.
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

User avatar
Tormato
Reactions:
Posts: 3822
Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:14 pm

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#2

Post: # 51193Unread post Tormato
Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:32 pm

Grow ramps under its shade.

User avatar
Cole_Robbie
Reactions:
Posts: 1481
Joined: Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:58 pm

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#3

Post: # 51196Unread post Cole_Robbie
Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:54 pm

Tormato wrote: Mon Jul 26, 2021 1:32 pm Grow ramps under its shade.
I was thinking lettuce or greens, but same idea.

User avatar
bower
Reactions:
Posts: 5628
Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:44 pm
Location: Newfoundland, Canada

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#4

Post: # 51211Unread post bower
Mon Jul 26, 2021 6:49 pm

Raise it up and make a tomato gazebo. You may need two or three to stack. Without the bouncy part of course. That could be laid on the ground beneath the plants to suppress weeds and cushion the fall for those leaper fruit.
AgCan Zone 5a/USDA zone 4
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm

User avatar
PhilaGardener
Reactions:
Posts: 174
Joined: Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:05 am
Location: Gardening near Philadelphia

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#5

Post: # 51222Unread post PhilaGardener
Tue Jul 27, 2021 6:12 am

My first thought was worthy competition for a pumpkin treboucher?treebouche?traboucher?

Image

aw, you know, a pumkin chucker :lol: :lol: :lol:
Gardening near Philadelphia (USA)

User avatar
stone
Reactions:
Posts: 120
Joined: Tue Mar 03, 2020 11:33 am
Location: Middle Georgia USA
Contact:

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#6

Post: # 51226Unread post stone
Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:08 am

I use the "cloth" in the back of my truck to keep the mulch/manure from blowing out... works a treat.

The springs and other metal? No clue. Maybe fence posts or something.

User avatar
JRinPA
Reactions:
Posts: 1746
Joined: Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:35 pm
Location: PA Dutch Country

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#7

Post: # 51266Unread post JRinPA
Wed Jul 28, 2021 2:09 am

Probably is a pretty good tarp I suppose.
I had to look up ramps. Wild leeks? I wonder if those are affected by this allium bug we have here now.

I was thinking a 1/2 length hoop house. Probably 2 like that would make a full size one. I'm not how many tubes make the circle on that thing, or how heavy. I just need about an 8x10 at most. I see these things for free pretty often - this one is rustier than most. Tramps and basketball hoops- must cost a bit to buy, and then have to be given away for free to get rid of.

My brother has this size and I just could not watch his kids on it.

I'll bet Bower could use it though. After all, a wise man once said, "Build a better moose trap, and the world will beat a path to your door."

User avatar
JRinPA
Reactions:
Posts: 1746
Joined: Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:35 pm
Location: PA Dutch Country

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#8

Post: # 51507Unread post JRinPA
Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:20 pm

Success???

Image


I think that moose would beat a path to their door and then kick it in...lol.. he does not look happy. He was probably trying to reach the lettuce they had growing under there.

User avatar
bower
Reactions:
Posts: 5628
Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:44 pm
Location: Newfoundland, Canada

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#9

Post: # 51509Unread post bower
Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:32 pm

Whoa that is messed up! :lol:
Never heard of moose eating lettuce but the thing might've been in his way to get at something else.
They have terrible eyesight. This fella surely regrets getting involved with a tramp! :twisted:
AgCan Zone 5a/USDA zone 4
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm

User avatar
worth1
Reactions:
Posts: 14564
Joined: Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:32 pm
Location: 25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#10

Post: # 51514Unread post worth1
Sat Jul 31, 2021 7:40 pm

Poor baby.
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.

You can't argue with a closed mind.
You might as well be arguing with a cat.

User avatar
bower
Reactions:
Posts: 5628
Joined: Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:44 pm
Location: Newfoundland, Canada

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#11

Post: # 51558Unread post bower
Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:52 am

Just saw a fancy trampoline yesterday, in my far corner neighbor's backyard. This one had netting on top of it as well, to keep the kids from bouncing out I guess. :lol:
I'm left wondering whether anything would get enough light to grow under that.
OTOH if the light is enough, how on earth do they keep it mowed under there? I could see the person who has to mow it, wanting to get rid of it even for free. ;)
I do think the idea of cutting in two to make two hoops for a hoop house is a fine idea. 8-)
Show and tell if you make one, please.
AgCan Zone 5a/USDA zone 4
temperate marine climate
yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm

User avatar
HL2601
Reactions:
Posts: 414
Joined: Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:29 pm
Location: Metro Denver

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#12

Post: # 54480Unread post HL2601
Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:59 am

I have seen tutorials just recently about using the poles to make a round trellis too-great repurposing idea.

User avatar
JRinPA
Reactions:
Posts: 1746
Joined: Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:35 pm
Location: PA Dutch Country

Re: free trampoline... for the garden

#13

Post: # 54496Unread post JRinPA
Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:09 pm

I saw another one for free the other day on CL. Pretty good shape. They come up pretty often around here, I think.

Post Reply

Return to “What's in the workshop?”