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caveman
Dec 29, 2002, 8:19 PM
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im thinking of building a slackline in my basement, and i'm wondering how it could be done. how much webbing to use, how to secure the webbing onto the walls and so on.
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jetasun
Jan 18, 2003, 6:13 AM
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Well...nobody has answered your question yet these last couple of weeks. And it's probably because it's really pretty ridiculous when think about all the fun you could have doing it outside. But then again, I've hit plastic golfballs inside when it's snowing outside so....
...Don't anchor to your wall; anchor to the floor. You probably have a nice solid chunk of concrete. Break out your nifty bolt kit and place two anchors (2.5 ft apart, perpendicular to the line) at each end, which is hopefully longer than 30ft. Now comes the tricky part. Make one A-frame for each end (1 A-frame= two 8foot 2x4's, 1in. dowel, X the boards about 2ft. from the top, drill a 1 1/8th hole through the X, insert 1in. dowel into the X, tie webbing across the bottom to keep it from spreading, BINGO...an A-frame or is it an X-Frame?). Attach some webbing to your anchors. Take that webbing to the top of the X in your A-frame. Wrap some webbing around the X, vertically, and then down to the other A-frame. Rig a similar set up on the other side, and rig a biner pulley on the line (see slackline.com for rigging ideas). That should do it...but watch your head.
Then again...you're probably slackline outside now anyway. Unless of course you are starting you own "underground" slackline following with bongs, strobe lights and rockin' tunes...Hell, I may even come over.
[ This Message was edited by: jetasun on 2003-01-18 15:03 ]
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