My kids swing hooks after four years of use
Friday, 21 Mar 2025
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Aw hell, they’ve got another 4 years in em.
The elementary school by my house has a saucer swing that wore in a similar way. I tried to tell the school that the bolts holding the swing up only had like 2 mm of metal left. They did nothing. A few weeks later the swing was broken on the ground.
Good that you caught this
Good you caught it. You need bushings friend.
This is exactly what I’m here for hell yeah
My swing hooks look the same after four years of use with my wife.
Makes me want to go rock climbing
If you were a California electric company you would let this go another 100 years
This is similar wear to what caused the Camp Fire for PG&E and destroyed the town of Paradise. It happened on a 🪝on a transmission line
Because it’s not a swing hook.
Playground swing hooks in my neighborhood are at least 10 years old and dont have that much wear on them, interesting.
tbf now we all know why those hooks started the fires in CA, lol. We all learned some important lessons today!
OP I think you’ve been using them upside down
You should see what punching bag clips look like after a while
I’d like to ask, what are the metal things you screw on the hooks?, what is their purpose?.
Why don’t you just use a round file? It will get 99% of the way through in under a minute, then you can set it back up and see how far they fly.
those aren’t swing hooks.
Just another 4 years and you could be child free.
[No bushings?]
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Send those off to ‘hownotto’ YouTube channel and ask him to break test them!
Ever think of greasing it?? Bet it’d stop the noise too!
Money well spent.
This is actually a really great catch. My sister was constantly on her swing and we never checked the condition of the chains. She had swung so much that the hooks wore through each other completely and one day snapped while she was on it. Thank god she didn’t fall far and only was a bit sore but since then we always check the chains throughout the year.
I built a $1800 playset for my son 17 years ago. I was, and still am, proud of building it—something I would have treasured and played with until it was a pile of wood when I was young. Now my a son and a daughter have out grown it and that playset looks as good as the day I built it almost as if it’s never been touched! The carabiners that hold the swings in place our pristine, other than maybe a little weathering. 😥
You had at least 3 more years to go, haha.
I’ve seen worse on grips at the gym… which is not a good thing.
Got your money’s worth
I got a Stainless steel one like 3-4 years ago and it’s still as new.
Brass isnt a bad option for replacement
Damn kids can’t take care of anything. Have they not heard of grease?
Our neighbor kid swung straight into a conifer across our (small) garden when one half of our swing decided to give way like that. Do not recommend.
Hey OP just a heads up they should be replaced periodically. My family had a playset with a swing and one day it fell on the back of heels and I still can’t feel that spot over a decade and a half later. It broke in that same spot
My kid wore through a pair of those in six months. Kid loves her swing
I rock climb and you would be shocked at how a nylon threaded rope can cut through stainless steel quick links from ppl lowering off of them and will start to look like this but they are usually replaced by a coalition or a good individual
My childhood swing set had bearings up top. I now have an example of why.
My grandmother had a front porch swing, and as kids, I would watch that rusted chain with the paper thin groove at the hook and marvel at its strength and wonder when we would fall in our asses.
How they did that?
Our swing went through at least 6 different hooks before my dad finally said fuck it and bought these super thick insulated hooks made for swings
Okay, so fun fact, we had one of those platform type swings, that attaches to a single one of these puppies. I LOVED to swing on that thing, and then one day as I was swinging away, the carabiner broke, and I went flying.
Moral of the story… make sure to check those every so often lol
Should let ‘em go a little longer! you’d have to invest in a good webcam and a big hard drive tho lol
This is what the 100 year old hooks holding high voltage power lines over California’s forests look like.