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adrian_turtleThere's a playground near the Arlington-Medford line. I don't know if they call it Parallel Park. (They should. It's on rte 60 and Parallel.) The swings are mounted high. Even the baby swings hang so high I would have to lift a child way up over my center of gravity to put her in the swing. When I tried one of the regular swings, I had to hop a little to reach the seat. It was kind of neat to find play equipment that looked like it was built for really big kids.
The height and width of the swing made me think it was built for someone a little bigger than me, and would probably be ok for someone up to Davo's size. Yet when I started swinging, the whole swingset rocked like it wasn't anchored properly. I hadn't felt that in a long time. When I was little, we had a swingset in the backyard. When I was 7, it started rocking when we played on it, and my father explained about the metal anchors on the legs, buried in the dirt. The next spring, we got a different swingset (with a climber attached, that I fell off and broke my arm the first time, but that's another story). I remember my father saying we couldn't play on it until he anchored it, and waiting for the ground to thaw completely so he could pour the concrete around the thingees attached to the legs. I never felt the new swingset rock. And I remember school swingsets always being anchored really deep, to keep kids from messing with them.
So it was unnerving to have this swingset in the park rocking so much. Even if I'm twice the weight of a 10-year-old, shouldn't a swingset with four swings be stable with two 10-year-olds?
The height and width of the swing made me think it was built for someone a little bigger than me, and would probably be ok for someone up to Davo's size. Yet when I started swinging, the whole swingset rocked like it wasn't anchored properly. I hadn't felt that in a long time. When I was little, we had a swingset in the backyard. When I was 7, it started rocking when we played on it, and my father explained about the metal anchors on the legs, buried in the dirt. The next spring, we got a different swingset (with a climber attached, that I fell off and broke my arm the first time, but that's another story). I remember my father saying we couldn't play on it until he anchored it, and waiting for the ground to thaw completely so he could pour the concrete around the thingees attached to the legs. I never felt the new swingset rock. And I remember school swingsets always being anchored really deep, to keep kids from messing with them.
So it was unnerving to have this swingset in the park rocking so much. Even if I'm twice the weight of a 10-year-old, shouldn't a swingset with four swings be stable with two 10-year-olds?
