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[cormack12]

Remember every TV show with kids had some sort of treehouse from the US and being insanely jealous that these were common.

Grown up you realise no one actually had one at all. So did you gaf?

 

[Birdo]

My friends and I tried many times, but we settled on a groundhouse. It was safer and easier.

 

[Kev Kev]

We would find tree houses already built while exploring the woods around town. There was one in my neighborhood that we wound up fortifying with scraps we found in our dads garages lol. Made a ladder with some old fence pieces, a saw, hammer and nails. Probably hung out in their for a total of 20 minutes before we got too hot and took back off on our bikes to explore some more.

So, yes and no. But yeah man tree houses were definitely a thing and they were awesome. It’s just too hot in Florida to hang out in a tree house for very long, definitely not sleeping in one during the summer. We were more likely to grab a shovel and build some dirt ramps to jump over.

 

[Toytown Assassin]

We built one in the wood behind our house. Mid 70s Uk. 'found' plenty of timber on nearby building sites The 70s really was a different world. My kids never got up to any of the shit me and my brothers got into.

 

[nush]

I tried to make a treehouse but my skills were not there, so I made many tree platforms.

 

[Tschumi]

didn't need one, there was nary a tree in my neighborhood i couldn't climb if i set my mind on it

i was teh boss

i'm also convinced i'm like four inches shorter (I'm 6 ft) than my big brother because i fell on my ass from the top of one of those trees once when i was about 10

 

[Kadve]

Never built on myself but my sister and a friend tried too build one. They got as far as the floor and one wall before they lost interest, so it all the material they acquired was left rotting in the woods.

 

[jason10mm]

I loved in a forested area so we had many. A few days with hammer, nails, and scrap lumber and you could build anything!

We had a zip line made from some telephone line, 2 rope bridges connecting different different platforms, all sorts of cool stuff.

My kids do none of it

 

[Mihos]

We would find tree houses already built while exploring the woods around town. There was one in my neighborhood that we wound up fortifying with scraps we found in our dads garages lol. Made a ladder with some old fence pieces, a saw, hammer and nails. Probably hung out in their for a total of 20 minutes before we got too hot and took back off on our bikes to explore some more.

So, yes and no. But yeah man tree houses were definitely a thing and they were awesome. It’s just too hot in Florida to hang out in a tree house for very long, definitely not sleeping in one during the summer. We were more likely to grab a shovel and build some dirt ramps to jump over.

We found an old one someone made in the woods and just moved it to another tree closer to my neighborhood. We were poor, so that was pretty much all we had to mess around with in the summer

 

[Winter John]

Not in Brooklyn. We had plenty of crack houses though.

 

[Ikutachi]

My cousins.

 

[Prison Mike]

 

[RavenSan]

I built one early on in the pandemic with my friend.


....We're both in our 30s, with no kids.

 

[Revolutionary]

My cousins in upstate NY did. They would calmly jump down from the top instead of using the ladder, but I was terrified to follow because it looked like such a long drop. In my mind it was like a 10 foot drop, but we were like 8 years old so in actuality it was probably only like 6 feet or something lol

 

[Mistake]

Yes, and it's still up 20 years later. There's a couple bunk beds built in with a space next it. But the roof isn't flush with the front wall, so bugs and animals would get inside, which is why I only used it during the day. Now I can use it to shoot deer instead, not that I need to

 

[teezzy]

My friends dad built him one

He had a trampoline and a pool too, with two of the biggest English mastiffs you'd ever seen

Also his two hot older sisters would walk around in their bikinis all day

Man what a time to be alive

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Guileless]

I did. Built in mid 80s by my dad and a handyman. My neighbor had a really elaborate one with a zip line.

 

[BadBurger]

A good friend of mine did. As did his neighbor. Right across the fence.

We used to have "wars" where we assumed positions in each tree house and hurled pinecones at each other. It was good times. About the age of 13 or so both families decided to dismantle the tree houses.

 

[nush]

My friends dad built him one

He had a trampoline and a pool too, with two of the biggest English mastiffs you'd ever seen

Also his two hot older sisters would walk around in their bikinis all day

Man what a time to be alive

First time I ever made out with a girl was in a treehouse in her garden that her dad built. I wonder how many other lads she took "To the treehouse".

 

[Rentahamster]

I had a nice house tree.

 

[nush]

I had a nice house tree.

 

[AJUMP23]

My brother and I and our buddy mike built one in his woods. We built in the trees stuck a bench up in it to sit down. Had a pole to slide down and we used rope and pvc to create our own zip line. It was pretty great.

 

[Kenpachii]

I grow up in amsterdam, if i would made a tree house i probably got arrested rofl

 

[xrnzaaas]

For someone who's never owned one (because of living in a flat) a treehouse looks like a recipe for disaster. Even the best behaved kids have moments when they're not careful. Or they might want to show off and jump down from the top.

 

[DKehoe]

The tree in my garden wouldn't have supported one. But a friend had one. And I built ones with friends out in the woods.

 

[fran.fernandez]

We had one even with “elevator”

 

[cormack12]

I tried to make a treehouse but my skills were not there, so I made many tree platforms.

That's exactly what we did. Found loads of trees by the old railway, managed to hammer up a platform to perch on. And I do mean perch. When one person was on it, the rest of us had to stand at the bottom of the tree for a turn.

 

[jdforge]

I built one early on in the pandemic with my friend.


....We're both in our 30s, with no kids.

Brokeback 2 : Treehouse Edition

 

[Teslerum]

Yes, and it's still up 20 years later. There's a couple bunk beds built in with a space next it. But the roof isn't flush with the front wall, so bugs and animals would get inside, which is why I only used it during the day. Now I can use it to shoot deer instead, not that I need to

That's mighty impressive work tbh. How old were you and how much help did you have?

 

[Rentahamster]

Holy shit that's it!

 

[INC]

Yes loads, I grew up near woods, as kids we were in there daily building shit

Tree houses, underground bases, bmx and quad tracks etc etc etc

 

[Mistake]

That's mighty impressive work tbh. How old were you and how much help did you have?

A family friend helped when I was around 10. I built the ladder, but everything else I just assisted by carrying stuff or holding boards to nail in

 

[Dark Star]

I always wanted one growing up. Home Alone or Dennis The Menace style. My friends and I would ride our skateboards around the neighborhood in search of something adventurous, but all we had was a huge grass field to mess around in behind our neighborhood.

Eventually my family moved to a neighborhood with a huge forest, bike trails, and a public use tree house made by professionals. It doesn’t quite scratch the itch of finding an abandoned one in the woods with your friends, or building one yourself with scraps, but it’s nice to visit during October/November when the weather is perfectly chilly.

 

[JayK47]

We had a great tree for a tree house in the backyard at the home I grew up in. We built the first tree house out of scrap wood and it did not last very long. Replaced it with a decent tree house with large pieces of plywood and that one held up until we moved out. The house we live in now barely has any trees and the one decent tree would not accomodate a tree house with doing a lot of damage to the tree. So my kids will likely not get a tree house.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

I never had a tree

 

[OmegaSupreme]

I did. My father and I built it. It was great. It was nowhere near as elaborate as what you see on tv but it was cool.