Monthly Archives: August 2012

My wife and I have wanted to build a tree house for our son since we moved in to our current house. Living in 9 acres of woods, what boy wouldn’t want one. He sure does. We’ve looked at different trees, looked at how to build them, and never found the perfect trees.

When we moved here, at the east end of a little clearing by the barn, there was a large oak tree, about 36 inches in diameter, that had recently broken off about 20 feet up. I had often thought about building something on top of that. We talked about it last fall, and decided to build it as our first project of the spring.

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