NinerBikes wrote:
Listen, you've tested my limited diplomacy here, and insulted my intelligence and years of experience building things that stay standing up.
Don't bother asking for opinions here about if it's OK, if you have a closed mind and it's already made up that you think you can do something you probably shouldn't do. This is pure gold, Darwin Award material in the making.
Have a nice life, don't come back if something fails and you or someone else gets injured and sue happy. I don't build things for just one person that currently weighs 125 #. I have to build it for the lowest common denominator.
Wow....Project much?...lol... I'm having a conversation and offering my thoughts. I have in no way made up my mind, many people left to consult. I think what you're sore about is that I *didn't* make up my mind, based solely on your input. I guess I was distracted by the sound of my own howling while trying to figure out how in just a few posts a yoga swing turned into "pole" (which conjures up all sorts of images). It's hard to integrate your input when you don't even understand what it is I want to install. (Isn't that sort of the first rule of advising another with regard to safety issues?)
I'm grateful for all the input I'm getting. I'm very interested in physics and all things mechanical. I also know some people approach life very differently than I do. So I take it all in, as I do with every project, make my own decision.
And I *am* building it for just myself. No one else will ever...use... this swing. This is the third time I have noted that.(really...?!) I don't live in a world of lawsuits and liability, am a single woman with no children or grandchildren and I take responsibility for my own choices. If you're going spiral into resentment and get all upset (speaking of victimhood) make sure, for your own sake, that you've got the facts straight. Or not...it makes no difference to me. I realize some people enjoy that kind of thing.
