{Inglefield} Next project... sunken trampoline

[Funkstar]

I have so many projects on the go at home, it would be completely stupid to start another one, especially one involving huge amounts of manual labour.


But what the heck, may as well.

So when I get home (currently offshore) I'll be starting to dig a 14ft by 3-3ft hole to bury our trampoline

Sort of like this, but with grass that isn't nearly so perfect:


Just need to figure out the best way to make sure the sides done cave in, it doesn't get flooded, the air can circulate while bouncing, and how best to have it level considering our garden slopes.

I think I'm going to use some of the spoil to build up the side that is low, maybe even creating a kind of rise round about two thirds of it. As for the hole, I'm thinking I could line the sides with corrugated sheeting (I'm sure I've seen stuff that comes on a roll with the corrugation running across the roll) and a good covering of gravel on the bottom and banked up the sides. I'm not keen on having the legs of the trampoline buried, so I was going to take the out the tube that extends the leg, and just have the "foot" connected directly to the trampoline rim. I'll then build eight pillars from standard bricks to rest it on. these would also help to prevent and wall collapse.

As for the air, places have recommended three or four 3"-4" flexible pipes spaced evenly to vent the air as you jump. I think I'll do this, but have them all exiting to one side as opposed to having vest in four points in the garden.

Looking forward to this, first big garden landscaping project I've done. It'll be on a tight budget and probably all done my hand.

I just wonder what the chickens will think of a ground level trampoline...

[Phage]

I just wonder what the chickens will think of a ground level trampoline...

There's more than one way to see how far a chicken can fly !

[Funkstar]

Only four and a bit months since I had the idea, it is started.

Cut the turf away and used it to make some raised beds in another part of the garden. In the process of filling them with soil, two down, third one should be done tomorrow. I'll have a huge amount of soil to get rid of after that, so we are raising another flower bed in another part of the garden. It won't have a retailing boundary at the front for the time being. Will really just be a bunch of earth piles along the bottom of a wall if I'm honest. I've been taking piles of earth to the tip as I go along as well. Now got eight 40l garden trugs which I've been taking every time I have other garden rubbish to get rid of.

Pics to follow.

[Andeh13]

Very much looking forward to seeing how this takes shape! . Best of luck.