Finished project - Trapeze Arch.

Jan 24, 2005 3 Replies

Last fall I spent a month building and installing this double arch in a friend's basement. It is structural, so we had to install the 2 steel I-beam arches on either side of the existing wooden beams and posts. Then we shifted the load to the steel and removed the wood so they had a free swinging space for practicing hanging trapeze acrobatics. Then I welded in the ladder rungs and later installed the second pipe arch.



Him and his wife (the lady in the image) have a dance troup called the Cabiri.



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BTW the room measures 17 feet wide, 21 feet long and 13.5 feet high.


Looks like one kinky room Ernie,,,, Is this what you did with the down-time from the accident? Very cool in a Munster's sort of way :)~

Rob

Wow. Not many peeps have a basement with 13.5' height, or especially one with a window that looks down onto other buildings. Must be built on the edge of a bluff?

Ken Grunke

oh, sure...no close-ups of the actual welds.....

Nice work, Ernie...Kinda looks like a room that may have *other* purposes.

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