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re: Building Forts...Classic Childhood Pastime
Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:15 am to TheGreat318
Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:15 am to TheGreat318
Had forts all over. Both grandparents' houses and a couple accessible from mine. Had one behind a friend's house stacked with Playboys. We were about 10.
Mom came home one day from the grocery and I had made "steps" up a tree in the back yard with nails (just like dad did) and my 8 yr old brother was stuck up on a limb 20' off the ground. He'd been up there a while, so while waiting on dad to get home to fix it I had somehow gotten him a fishing rod up in the tree and I'd hook a canteen, a ziploc of cheetos, and a blanket to sit on onto a chartreuse H&H that he'd reel them up with.
Mom came home one day from the grocery and I had made "steps" up a tree in the back yard with nails (just like dad did) and my 8 yr old brother was stuck up on a limb 20' off the ground. He'd been up there a while, so while waiting on dad to get home to fix it I had somehow gotten him a fishing rod up in the tree and I'd hook a canteen, a ziploc of cheetos, and a blanket to sit on onto a chartreuse H&H that he'd reel them up with.
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:16 am to TheGreat318
Living in the sticks of Mississippi forts are a must have for children growing up. Hell even some of our houses are no bigger or nicer then a fort.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:38 am to TheGreat318
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Enjoy your video games, nerd.
Nope you may have missed my point. The sophistication line was a friendly, although in hind site certainly misguided, shot at being "West of Bossier". Just a little attempt at humor that obviously failed.
BTW, last video game I played was Track and Field at an Arcade....in 1985.
This post was edited on 4/25/13 at 9:39 am
Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:43 am to Tiger inTampa
I built lots of forts growing up. We had this little strip of woods that bordered us on one side and a cow pasture on the other. Had a creek running through it. The first fort we built was pretty simple and we had to repair it often. It was basically scrap pieces of plywood and a tarp. We'd track animals and explore, building traps and doing our best Jeremiah Johnson impersonation.
The second fort was aided by my dad and it was awesome. We built a bridge across the creek and set polls for the walls with a tin roof and plexiglass windows. We waged war on many a bad guy out there.
Had another fort down at the deer camp where we cut down pine trees and made a log cabin type thing. My boys are getting to the age where we can start building forts and tree houses. I'm getting excited just thinking about it.
The second fort was aided by my dad and it was awesome. We built a bridge across the creek and set polls for the walls with a tin roof and plexiglass windows. We waged war on many a bad guy out there.
Had another fort down at the deer camp where we cut down pine trees and made a log cabin type thing. My boys are getting to the age where we can start building forts and tree houses. I'm getting excited just thinking about it.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:46 am to TheGreat318
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The "Backyards are overrated" thread over on the OT got me thinking...do kids still go out in the backyard/woods and build forts?
We used to build forts in Ford's Pasture and the surrounding woods using wood that "was just lying around" construction sites. We also used to make some bad-arse tree houses out of said wood.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 9:56 am to TheGreat318
Dang straight we built forts and tipis. We'd cut down saplings with the lightern log axe and make some huge tipis. We'd build forts out of anything we could find or use. Then we'd have bb gun fights and battles all over the woods. I'd take firecrackers and Irish taters from the tater bin, poke a hole in the tater with a nail and then insert the firecracker to make grenades. And my granddaughters are into building forts, too. They and the neighbors' kids (about six of em altogether) currently have a big fort built by the creek down in the woods. I wondered where my scrap barn roofing disappeared to until I found their fort.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:10 am to BFIV
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I'd take firecrackers and Irish taters from the tater bin, poke a hole in the tater with a nail and then insert the firecracker to make grenades
I can't imagine the arse chewing I woulda took
"but Dad, you got a million in the bin"
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:14 am to tigerfoot
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I can't imagine the arse chewing I woulda took
"but Dad, you got a million in the bin"
Daddy didn't give me an arse chewin. He gave me an arse whuppin. But them tater grenades sure worked good.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:16 am to BFIV
Pops rarely whipped us, I was the youngest of three boys. Maybe he was just tired by then.
We were pretty good though, they gave us a good bit of rope.
We were pretty good though, they gave us a good bit of rope.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 10:31 am to tigerfoot
this thread makes me want to quit my job even more and go into the fort construction business
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:02 pm to Flair Chops
I forgot my best fort building experience. We built a three story one in cypress trees behind my buddies house. Had a diving platform, and a boat slip. Carpeting it was a bad idea....we stole more scraps than you could imagine.
We named the different levels, I remember on was the perch patio! A creative bunch we were
We named the different levels, I remember on was the perch patio! A creative bunch we were
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:13 pm to tigerfoot
great grandparents lived on bayou lacombe and i built many forts on that property. they passed 
but on the bright side the house is now ours
but on the bright side the house is now ours This post was edited on 4/25/13 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:16 pm to Mike Rotchsmells
The way I read that...it Looks like the dancing nana maybe a little misplaced.....but I know what you mean
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:17 pm to tigerfoot
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The way I read that...it Looks like the dancing nana maybe a little misplaced.....but I know what you mean
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:18 pm to TheGreat318
We had a ton a bamboo in the back corner of our yard. I was redneck hayes town with the shite I would come up with. We had a decent sized backyard off of LSU campus, so me and my little brother would get a hoe and make a ten foot circle, dump some sunflower seed in it, and shoot the shite out of the doves with our benjamins.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:22 pm to TheGreat318
I did the same 
not until late childhood did I get a video game system
not until late childhood did I get a video game system 
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:28 pm to TheGreat318
I still can re-call the beating I got as a 7 year old for hooking 9 extension cords together an cutting down pine trees with my dads skill saw. Burned the motor up, and he was pissed! Good times though.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:32 pm to chadau79
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:37 pm to jimbeam
Video games were for rainy days only.
Fort building is a rite of passage. Every young boy should experience it.
When I was a kid, there were alleyways that ran between people's houses that were always loaded with goodies like firewood, old garden wire, busted hosepipes, etc.
Every day during the week, right at dark (before we had to be home for dinner) we'd go in there and collect all the crap from out there and hide it behind a friend's house...then come Saturday, it was an all day fort workday. We'd always load it with snacks that we swiped from our own houses and we'd hang out all day and play army or sit around and play cards, or check out some dirty mags...and we always had this fantasy of one day, shooting a deer out of that damn thing.
We'd make our own bows & arrows & spears and let slip the dogs of war. We'd split up and use walkie talkies to communicate. Probably one of the most fun times of my life.
Fort building is a rite of passage. Every young boy should experience it.
When I was a kid, there were alleyways that ran between people's houses that were always loaded with goodies like firewood, old garden wire, busted hosepipes, etc.
Every day during the week, right at dark (before we had to be home for dinner) we'd go in there and collect all the crap from out there and hide it behind a friend's house...then come Saturday, it was an all day fort workday. We'd always load it with snacks that we swiped from our own houses and we'd hang out all day and play army or sit around and play cards, or check out some dirty mags...and we always had this fantasy of one day, shooting a deer out of that damn thing.
We'd make our own bows & arrows & spears and let slip the dogs of war. We'd split up and use walkie talkies to communicate. Probably one of the most fun times of my life.
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