This content was created by Richard Perkins. This content was uploaded by Richard Perkins. This is a YouTube video titled "Treehouse Tiny Home" created on November 9, 2016, featuring Richard Perkins discussing the construction and design considerations for building a treehouse, including minimizing tree damage and ensuring structural stability.
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Sam. From what I understand researching tree houses, there's many ways to go about it, but the basic premise is to put minimal holes in the tree as possible. Because what a tree will do, if I drill a hole through here, the tree will compartmentalize that wound and it creates scar tissue, as it were. So what you would do if you were putting multiple bolts in a tree, you would put them in line vertically, rather than having multiple bolts. So some people would perhaps naturally feel like lots of small bits is better than one big bit, but it's much better to have a single point of support. And you can buy proper tail tabs. They're called, like treehouse anchor bolts, but they're a couple of hundred dollars in America, you can buy them. So what we've done is used a conventional, not a lag bolt. So a lag bolt is the one where the thread is sticking out wider than the shaft. And for about a tenth of the price, you can buy just standard bolts. So the way we've worked with that is drilled a smaller hole to allow that to have a little bit of grip. But the important element is that every joint can move because the tree house doesn't really move. The trees all move. And it's. If possible, it's optimal to use minimal trees. Like, the more trees, the more you spread the weight, but the more movement you have to accommodate. So they just have a simple piece that allows for full movement in a horizontal plane. And because they can all move, it works out. But it's quite like it does get very windy here. And the force exerted down here at the base is many tons of pressure. It's extremely strong. It might only move a centimeter or two, but that's insanely strong force. But in this, I reckon there's about a thousand kilos up here. So it's 250 kilos on each bolt. It's really not very much. I mean, a small 8 mil bolt can hold many more kilos than that. So it seems to be working good. It survived the winter. We built it in December, Nicholas and I, and it went through some pretty big storms. So it's really secure. We haven't done the inside yet, but we're going to focus on that pretty soon. I think. It.
