{"id":1305,"date":"2013-07-07T22:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T03:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2013-07-07T22:15:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T03:15:19","slug":"chain-swing-installed-into-tree-limb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/chain-swing-installed-into-tree-limb\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain swing installed into tree limb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I installed a standard hanging chain swing from a nice big limb in the oak tree in my front yard. I found these nice heavy duty swiveling swing hangers at WalMart. They just screw right into the tree limb or into a wooden swing set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1395.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1306\" alt=\"IMG_1395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1395-300x400.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1395-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1395-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1395.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My problem became how do I close the loop on this swing hanger after I have inserted the chain from the swing? I suppose I could just keep the loop open, but that would risk kids flying off and hurting themselves while swinging.\u00a0 Probably not too likely, but still a risk.\u00a0 The solution was sitting on my drill press in my shop. It&#8217;s my handy dandy portable drill press vice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1396.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1307\" alt=\"IMG_1396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1396-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1396-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1396-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1396.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get leverage and close the small portable vice onto the hanger&#8217;s loop, I used a piece of pipe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1399.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1308\" alt=\"IMG_1399\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1399-300x400.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1399-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1399-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1399.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perfect!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1402.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1309\" alt=\"IMG_1402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1402-300x400.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1402-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1402-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_1402.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I installed a standard hanging chain swing from a nice big limb in the oak tree in my front yard. I found these nice heavy duty swiveling swing hangers at WalMart. They just screw right into the tree limb or into a wooden swing set. My problem became how do I close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107,112],"tags":[369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}