Bicycle Lift Tree House

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Bicycle lift tree house. Your friends find you in the woods 2 months later impaled on your stupid bicycle lift. The lift will retail for 899 the equivalent of about 675. A third smaller rope is attached to the rear wheel rim. Could you tell me his e mail address that i could ask hom some questions about process of build please.

The story goes like this ethan got sick of climbing the ladder dozens of times a day to and from his self built treehouse. This is the story of a creative young lad who invented and built his own bicycle powered elevator to get up to his tiny treehouse cabin which is built way up in the trees. 08 36 edt 1 may 2014 updated. The lift is based around a bicycle supported by two strong ropes and counter balanced by a 50kg concrete block so little effort is required to quickly reach the tree house.

Bicycle powered elevator goes viral. I am very interested in building a tree house like ethan did. At first i was expecting something pretty tedious to pedal in order to lift the weight of a full grown man yet as soon as he. Today we swapped out the old steel cable with dyneema rope and messed around on the home.

What a tree mendous idea. Man uses his bicycle to get up to his treehouse after becoming so fed up having to climb 30ft ladder. He hasn t finished the tree house yet and got tired of climbing a ladder all day long when he came up with the idea for the bike elevator. Over the last few weeks ethan schlussler has been working on a beautifully designed 30 foot high treehouse and quickly became tired of climbing a ladder six and a half million times a day so he decided to build a human powered elevator out of an old bicycle.

This is exactly what ethan schlussler did with his bicycle powered tree house elevator. Not content with building himself an impressive tree house in the woods outside sandpoint idaho ethan schlussler has. This looks like it s going to be a really cool tree house when it s finished. Although for that price it is possible to buy an excellent complete bike it s less than a third the price 2 bicycle lift for tree house 6th september 2013.

Tree house bicycle elevator how it works upgrades duration. He manipulated the bicycle s gear ratio and added an extra pulley to create more advantage for lift as he fine tuned his invention. Your foot slips off the pedal and bzzzzz 30 feet to be butt raped by the seat of your bike.