im trying to build a fort in the woods behind my house?
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hire a contactor..or get Tye to help and do an Extreme Makover treehouse
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u going for war?
u going for war?
Cannons are nice but don't let Dad see them IF YOU ARE OLD enough to build then ask dad to find you a set of plans on the net if dad will not let you use HIS DRILL then you need to wait awhile !
Do not forget to keep back door. Any how it is better than building castles in the air.
Now matter how cool you think it might be, don't put in a bathroom, I put one in my fort when I was a kid and it started smelling really bad a few days later.
Haha, this would be cute if you were seven or eight... since I doubt that you are, I'm just going to laugh at you.
Hahahahaha... anyway.
Yes. Lots of thin boreds, found cheap at your local hardware store and nails you steal from your dad. That or take branches and lean 'em against a tree. Volia!
The first thing you're going to need is something to use for the fort's walls. Cardboard is generally the most effective material to use, and there's always a lot of it around. Depending on how big you want the fort to be, you're going to have to measure and cut pieces of cardboard to suit your needs. In total, you're going to need five pieces of big cardboard (four sides and a top) and a heavy-duty pair of scissors to cut through the material. If you're looking for a small fort that'll be big enough to hold you and your dog, you probably won't need pieces more than six or seven feet in both directions. Remember, three pieces need to be the same size (for the top and two sides), while another two must share identical dimensions.
Before assembling this masterpiece, don't forget to cut out a door and even a window if you'd like. Also, make sure to cut out a small section from the bottom of the door, so you'll be able to open it over the grass. Now you'll need some heavy-duty tape (duct tape or that clear kind they use on tape guns would be best) to attach each section together. Once you're finished that, voila! Instant fort. Feel free to adorn your shiny new fort with drawings, posters, or whatever else you think will make your fort kickin'.
wow...sounds like fun. My kids love to do things like that. A hammer, some long nails, some limbs (pretty sturdy ones) and some other things like sheet metal or either cardboard(although rain will destroy it) are some things you need. Just use your imagination. Rake the leaves or grass until its free from sharp objects for your "floor" and then work on surrounding the area with a wall of some sorts. My kids build forts all the time with household objects.....just be creative. Good luck to you....and ignore all the jerks on here that are saying ugly things...sometimes they dont think before they speak to a young person!! If you wanna email my daughter (shes 11) she could tell you some more ways. cruisininabug2010@yahoo.com I monitor her email, so I will let her know if you email her.
Very good idea.........thrilling.
You be sure for this kind of work Dad will never support. No dad of the world would support. And you also should not expect support. Its your fort. It will be your world. You should make it alone.
By the way - do you have sufficient money with you ? If yes then just start making it. Design should be exactly same as you dreamed.
If you do not have money - start working hard and earn enough money first.
You can even try to make a Fort made from trees of the forest.
Please ignore the guy who made some half-brained comment about forts being for nine-year-olds. Forts are for anyone who still has the creativity and exploratory nature to build one.
As to building - anything goes, really. My sister and I made an amazing beach fort recently (notably, we're both in our twenties) by creating a tepee of four huge branches, and then stacking smaller sticks and branches up the sides by resting them on knobs coming out of the tepee's legs - like putting rungs into a ladder. We kept going until the tepee was entirely covered and it was perfectly shady inside. It stayed put quite well, next time we'd probably bind the sticks together with twine or thick string.
The key seems to be looking for things already existing in nature that you can work with - like a good standing tree you could lean other branches against, a hollow in the ground, a pile of wood - as well as materials, both natural (branches, brush, leaves) and manmade (old blankets, string or twine, a waterproof tarp, etc).
Anyway, because building a fort is such an improvised thing, there aren't a lot of resources on the net about "how" to build one. Trust me, I just looked. Most of the sites are selling stuff for people to build forts. I suggest you give it a shot, and then update your question or write new ones as problems or challenges come up.
I think another key is to think up the essentials first - like, do you want it to be shielded from the sun? Waterproof from all angles? Totally closed in, or with a window? Mosquito proof? - and then try to think ahead of what you'll need to make that happen.
Anyway, good luck & keep us posted.
I'd listen to him.