I never had an actual swing set, my grandpa made a swing for us, though. You'd, either rub the rust off the chains with your hands, or twist the chains up trying to spin around and you'd get rust in your eyes. :) That and my sister flicking dirt in my eyes with a little sand shovel when I was 2 and having the spray paint pointed the wrong way a few years later and it's a wonder I can see at all. :) Thanks for the video
It's a sand shovel, what else was she gonna do with it? How could she not attack your eyballs with sand? I have a similar spray paint tale. Idk what aerosol or paint it was but I held it really close to my eye, aiming it like an idiot and my eye was right on those sights. Of course the nozzle was aimed backwards. Point blank blast. Eye trauma survivors!
@tperson8347 as I was reflecting on this trauma I may have unlocked a memory. I think mine was Raid jet stream blast. The kind that's meant to stay a stream for long distance wasp takedowns. I wanted to aim it the only way I knew how. What is crystal clear was me submerging my eyeball under the faucet stream, then filling up the sink and holding it under, blinking it clean. All the while thinking, "if I go blind I'm gonna be in so much trouble...."
I was on the phone with a colleague in college 25 years ago, and he suddenly yelled, "Stop spraying your sister in the face with that Raid!" He returned to our conversation and said, "Sorry about that."
There is no grown up analogy to swingsets. As an adult, I've never went in somebody's backyard and went," Dude! You got a ______!" as I run excitedly toward it. Collection of Batmobiles...live stripper stage....living dinosaur zoo. Some people may have those but I don't know em'.
My dad had my swingset pretty sturdy. The legs were set in concrete. That doesn't mean I didn't fall backward and cut my head open a couple of times. I don't think I needed stitches, but I'm not sure.
I work in a school. The kids love to hear stories of when I was coming up in the 70s/80s. They have soft foam to fall on under the play equipment we had concrete 😂 I told them about the game red rover, they can’t believe we played that in school. King of the Hill is not a game played as much today 😂 and God help these kids if they get thirsty and can’t get their water bottles. times really have changed. Thanks Junkman 🍻
I used to get the teeter totter on my swing set going by myself if you rocked hard enough it would go. I would pretend like it was a speeder bike from Return of the Jedi.
I wrote a metal song about this back in the 90's. Tipping the swing set Push push push! The back poles are lifting.. Faster Faster Faster! This thing is drifting.. We ARE Tipping the swing set Tipping the swing set Tipping the swing seT UH The poles are rusted out The chains they are breaking We are going to bring this sucker down! Push push push The back poles are lifting... Faster Faster Faster! This thing is drifting.. BOOM BOOM BOOM The swing set is down Uh oh we all say.. The swing set is on the ground! *Guitar solo I'm ok You're ok We are all ok Lift it back up! We ARE Tipping the swing set Tipping the swing set Tipping the swing set *fade out
My dad put one of those together on Christmas Eve night ready for us Christmas morning. It had the jungle Jim, swings, slide, the swinging bar and had the hand hoops. Mid eighties and it was a gift from Santa Claus installed by the jollly man himself! Haha
Does anybody remember the Mr. Turtle 🐢 Pool 🌊 I had one. You either used it as a Pool or a sand box. If you used it as a Pool..you had to set it out in the sun so, it would be some what warm..& you slid down the Turtles neck..
Somehow my aunt and cousins always ended up with one of these every couple of years, and they were never anchored. They always wound up rusted out and corroded, then ended up on a bonfire to be melted down for scrap metal along with all the PCB containing electrical trash.
@jediknightjairinaiki560 ninjas could be waiting to strike, eager to rob him of this honor. What a headline that would be. " To our top story, apparently anything can happen. Last night, former President......
@@shanester1832 Or just trying to muscle down some chocolate milk. The common enemy of seniors. "Chocolate Ensure, a nutritional boost for seniors, or a silent assassin in the night? Here's Nancy with the d'tails."
OMG! "Yellows". That was funny.
I loved swinging as fast as you could and then jumping off.
Key parties Lol! Adults loved to swing in the 70s too!
nothing sadder than an abandoned swingset
That is definitely a sad sight. 😥
In Australia in the summer time going down a metal slide is like sitting on a hotplate
@@ndingo Good times.
Same in South Florida, USA.
I remember my dad putting my swing set together. It was a Sears one a lot like one of the ones you showed but smaller. Thanks, Junkman!
They were flimsy, and the bottom of the poles tended to rust out pretty easily. But somehow they were fun anyway.
Swinging and one whole side comes 2 ft off the ground...priceless!
I love Guy Smiley.
I got a little stuffed Guy Smiley in a cereal box once.
I couldn't get over the fact they showed him some love in the 2000 teens!
Man those metal slides were no joke lol
Great video Junkman.When the kids have done playing With the wooden swing sets they could nail all the pieces together to form a tree.
Growing up with Vegas summers I'm all too familiar with the feeling of burning the back of my thighs on scorching sheet metal.
@7:40, that set looks almost exactly like mine, but my set was all metal gray.
I used to walk across the top of our swing set! So much fun.
🍻🍻🍻
Tire swing with the u joint on top was the best 👍👍
I never had an actual swing set, my grandpa made a swing for us, though.
You'd, either rub the rust off the chains with your hands, or twist the chains up trying to spin around and you'd get rust in your eyes. :)
That and my sister flicking dirt in my eyes with a little sand shovel when I was 2 and having the spray paint pointed the wrong way a few years later and it's a wonder I can see at all. :)
Thanks for the video
It's a sand shovel, what else was she gonna do with it? How could she not attack your eyballs with sand?
I have a similar spray paint tale. Idk what aerosol or paint it was but I held it really close to my eye, aiming it like an idiot and my eye was right on those sights. Of course the nozzle was aimed backwards. Point blank blast. Eye trauma survivors!
@@shanester1832
I think mine was primer gre. :)
@tperson8347 as I was reflecting on this trauma I may have unlocked a memory. I think mine was Raid jet stream blast. The kind that's meant to stay a stream for long distance wasp takedowns. I wanted to aim it the only way I knew how. What is crystal clear was me submerging my eyeball under the faucet stream, then filling up the sink and holding it under, blinking it clean. All the while thinking, "if I go blind I'm gonna be in so much trouble...."
@@shanester1832
Hahah! :)
"RAID?!" :)
I was on the phone with a colleague in college 25 years ago, and he suddenly yelled, "Stop spraying your sister in the face with that Raid!" He returned to our conversation and said, "Sorry about that."
There is no grown up analogy to swingsets. As an adult, I've never went in somebody's backyard and went," Dude! You got a ______!" as I run excitedly toward it.
Collection of Batmobiles...live stripper stage....living dinosaur zoo. Some people may have those but I don't know em'.
My dad had my swingset pretty sturdy. The legs were set in concrete. That doesn't mean I didn't fall backward and cut my head open a couple of times. I don't think I needed stitches, but I'm not sure.
I had one when I was a kid in the 90’s, I liked to sit on the swing and twist the chains up and then let go, so I’d spin around really fast.
I work in a school. The kids love to hear stories of when I was coming up in the 70s/80s. They have soft foam to fall on under the play equipment we had concrete 😂 I told them about the game red rover, they can’t believe we played that in school. King of the Hill is not a game played as much today 😂 and God help these kids if they get thirsty and can’t get their water bottles. times really have changed. Thanks Junkman 🍻
The only time I got knocked unconscious in my life was when I was playing red rover at 6 years old.
Good times!
I still have a scar on my left forearm that starts at my wrist and wraps around towards my elbow from one of these beautiful rusty deathtraps.
Better days!
They got swingsets !
The stability bars were supposed to be filled with sand to prevent lift-up, but most dads skipped that step
Also cement in
I used to get the teeter totter on my swing set going by myself if you rocked hard enough it would go. I would pretend like it was a speeder bike from Return of the Jedi.
I wrote a metal song about this back in the 90's.
Tipping the swing set
Push push push!
The back poles are lifting..
Faster Faster Faster!
This thing is drifting..
We ARE
Tipping the swing set
Tipping the swing set
Tipping the swing seT UH
The poles are rusted out
The chains they are breaking
We are going to bring this sucker down!
Push push push
The back poles are lifting...
Faster Faster Faster!
This thing is drifting..
BOOM
BOOM
BOOM
The swing set is down
Uh oh we all say..
The swing set is on the ground!
*Guitar solo
I'm ok
You're ok
We are all ok
Lift it back up!
We ARE
Tipping the swing set
Tipping the swing set
Tipping the swing set
*fade out
My dad put one of those together on Christmas Eve night ready for us Christmas morning. It had the jungle Jim, swings, slide, the swinging bar and had the hand hoops. Mid eighties and it was a gift from Santa Claus installed by the jollly man himself! Haha
We used to explore pennhurst state hospital and play on the playground stuff it was crazy 😝
Does anybody remember the Mr. Turtle 🐢 Pool 🌊 I had one. You either used it as a Pool or a sand box. If you used it as a Pool..you had to set it out in the sun so, it would be some what warm..& you slid down the Turtles neck..
we all had one :)
You left out how many beers you had to run and get for your ol man during construction 😅
Who else got cut up from the bolts on the very top posts of the swings, when climbing to walk along the top of it?
Damn yes
Somehow my aunt and cousins always ended up with one of these every couple of years, and they were never anchored. They always wound up rusted out and corroded, then ended up on a bonfire to be melted down for scrap metal along with all the PCB containing electrical trash.
Got some 70s audio going on this one!
Two fixed it best I could :(
@@ThatJunkman It's "Period"! ;-)
the yellohs....ummmm
Seems like they had a star wars speeder bike seat you could put on a swing set
Don't even SAY "pumpkin spice". That crap is horrific. Sick of this season already!!!!
You kids get off my dirt!!!!!!!!!!!!
FYI....those blisters on yer hands WASN'T from the slide. 😅
Thay sold big at Christmas because dad would have 4 or 5 months to figure it out
And Yes Tomorrow Is Jimmy Carter's 100th Birthday 🥳 🎉🎂 The county's oldest living president. 🇺🇸🦅🥜
Maybe. Tomorrow isn't here yet. Anything could happen.
That's nuts! Get it? :)
@jediknightjairinaiki560 ninjas could be waiting to strike, eager to rob him of this honor. What a headline that would be. " To our top story, apparently anything can happen. Last night, former President......
@@shanester1832
Or just trying to muscle down some chocolate milk.
The common enemy of seniors.
"Chocolate Ensure, a nutritional boost for seniors, or a silent assassin in the night?
Here's Nancy with the d'tails."
How much wampa lettuce 🥬 did you smoke today???