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re: Building Forts...Classic Childhood Pastime
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:42 pm to TXGunslinger10
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:42 pm to TXGunslinger10
I miss the good ole days where everyone would meet up at the fort after school and spread out through the woods with bb guns to hunt whatever was around.
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Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:43 pm to TXGunslinger10
Yep. Some good ole days
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:55 pm to jimbeam
Worst experience with our fort was discovering the giant hornets nest in the tree in which we built our haven.
We got our asses completely torn up by those bastards. It was like Custer's last stand. We couldn't find the nest so everyday after school for a week we went home looking for cans of wasp spray to go get those bastards. When we ran out of wasp spray, we decided to abandon ship and just build another one in a different location rather than let any of our parents know where our hideout was located.
We got our asses completely torn up by those bastards. It was like Custer's last stand. We couldn't find the nest so everyday after school for a week we went home looking for cans of wasp spray to go get those bastards. When we ran out of wasp spray, we decided to abandon ship and just build another one in a different location rather than let any of our parents know where our hideout was located.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 12:57 pm to TheGreat318
Built many - but that was really all there was to do - this and play pick-up baseball/football and jump our bikes using really unsafe homemade ramps till dark. My son is 16 and does not really get into the video games but the phone is the culprit now days. Advice - when they have buds over encourge them all to set phones down for the duration. If they do they generally end up outside doing something. Just get them outside, they will figure out the rest as we did.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 1:02 pm to hunt66
I encourage my kids to go outside all the time. It isn't hard to get them out there anyway. I've told them to watch for snakes and if they find one not to mess with it. I ran all over these woods when I was a kid. Now subdivisions are popping up like wild flowers and the "wild" areas are becoming rare.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 1:07 pm to 4X4DEMON
Anyone want to get together after work and build a fort? 
We oughta be able to make a real magnificent bastard now that we're older, have more shop skills and more money.
We oughta be able to make a real magnificent bastard now that we're older, have more shop skills and more money.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 1:13 pm to TXGunslinger10
Our forts when we were kids = our shops/barns now
Posted on 4/25/13 at 1:45 pm to TheGreat318
I built a beauty in some canals off the Tchefuncta River. I stole virtually all the material from a commercial construction site that was accessible nearby via boat. In hindsight, I feel pretty bad and stupid about that.
That being said, the fort had pressure treated lumber, a roof with shingles and tar paper, and rope bridge to a secondary fort or porch. Good living, no doubt.
That being said, the fort had pressure treated lumber, a roof with shingles and tar paper, and rope bridge to a secondary fort or porch. Good living, no doubt.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 2:03 pm to TJRibMe
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I stole virtually all the material from a commercial construction site
Thug POS
Posted on 4/25/13 at 2:04 pm to weisertiger
True story
Posted on 4/25/13 at 3:51 pm to jimbeam
Matter of fact, fort building is where I learned a very hard lesson about poison ivy. Turns out that shite will make you itch. Also turns out that if you scratch your arms, then scratch your balls...well...it's a real bad scene.
Posted on 4/25/13 at 4:41 pm to TheGreat318
He'll yes, sure did. We spent almost all our days in the woods when not in school. Woods and swamp were everywhere and the Mississippi River was within a half mile from the house as well. 
Posted on 4/25/13 at 5:42 pm to TheGreat318
My gramps still has a huge scrapbook he made with all of the blueprints I drew up as a kid. I went through it a couple of years ago and it blew my mind how elaborate they were.
Posted on 4/26/13 at 11:07 am to TXGunslinger10
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Video games were for rainy days only.
Back in my day, Sonny, it was board games.
This post was edited on 4/26/13 at 11:08 am
Posted on 4/26/13 at 2:40 pm to weisertiger
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Our forts when we were kids = our shops/barns now
deer stands and duck blinds= grown up forts
I still build forts
Posted on 4/26/13 at 2:54 pm to TheGreat318
I spent my entire childhood building forts.
Our go to designs:
1. Steal fence boards and 2x4's from relatives and find three trees close enough to build a triangle frame and nail boards across the frame about 10-15 foot high. I was thinking about this the other day. I wonder how much money we cost our parents by taking their lumber and tools to build forts. I took an arse whipping once for fort buding cause I broke a hammer and a saw and just threw them in the woods instead of bringing them home. Haha
2. Take Christmas trees from neighbors every year to build strategic outpost forts, using the trees layed down as walls, throughout the neighborhood. We would then spend a day or two gathering all of the pine comes in the neighborhood for the war. We literally threw pine cones at each other for fun. The greener the heavier tighter and better for causing injury.
GD I had one helluva childhood. I wish I was in middle school again. The amount of fun stuff we could pack into one day is just amazing
Our go to designs:
1. Steal fence boards and 2x4's from relatives and find three trees close enough to build a triangle frame and nail boards across the frame about 10-15 foot high. I was thinking about this the other day. I wonder how much money we cost our parents by taking their lumber and tools to build forts. I took an arse whipping once for fort buding cause I broke a hammer and a saw and just threw them in the woods instead of bringing them home. Haha
2. Take Christmas trees from neighbors every year to build strategic outpost forts, using the trees layed down as walls, throughout the neighborhood. We would then spend a day or two gathering all of the pine comes in the neighborhood for the war. We literally threw pine cones at each other for fun. The greener the heavier tighter and better for causing injury.
GD I had one helluva childhood. I wish I was in middle school again. The amount of fun stuff we could pack into one day is just amazing
Posted on 4/26/13 at 2:56 pm to TheGreat318
Lived next to a state park. The forest was basically my back yard if we climbed over our fence.
We would go out in the woods and wander around pretending we were soldiers on patrol with our bb guns and get in "gun fights" with mysterious opposing forces in the bushes.
We would go out in the woods and wander around pretending we were soldiers on patrol with our bb guns and get in "gun fights" with mysterious opposing forces in the bushes.
Posted on 4/26/13 at 3:00 pm to TheGreat318
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Matter of fact, fort building is where I learned a very hard lesson about poison ivy.
I have learned much from this deadly vixen. Numero uno - DO NOT EAT A LEAF. We used to pretty much live with poison ivy rashes every summer through childhood. Well one summer we convinced ourselves that Indians ate poison ivy leaves to become immune to the rash. So naturally we did the same. Swollen throat, tongue, eyes, cheeks itchy down your throat. Dr. said we could have killed ourselves. But Guess what it actually worked. I have never gotten poison ivy rashes since then. Maybe a few bumps or a little itching but not even close to how bad I was allergic to it as a kid.
Posted on 4/26/13 at 3:04 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
...oh really
I'll take one more bad one if I wouldn't ever get it again
I'll take one more bad one if I wouldn't ever get it again
Posted on 4/26/13 at 3:04 pm to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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I have learned much from this deadly vixen. Numero uno - DO NOT EAT A LEAF. We used to pretty much live with poison ivy rashes every summer through childhood. Well one summer we convinced ourselves that Indians ate poison ivy leaves to become immune to the rash. So naturally we did the same. Swollen throat, tongue, eyes, cheeks itchy down your throat. Dr. said we could have killed ourselves. But Guess what it actually worked. I have never gotten poison ivy rashes since then. Maybe a few bumps or a little itching but not even close to how bad I was allergic to it as a kid.
Stupid kid I knew in junior high named Jimmy got a brilliant idea to dry and smoke it. He didn't fare very well as a result.
This post was edited on 4/26/13 at 3:05 pm
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