The ones around where I live are 8 foot or shorter. I have been on a few very tall swing sets in past years. Whats the tallest ones you have been on?
It was many years ago – it wouldn’t pass muster today. The chains were about twelve feet long. You could REALLY zoom!
Yeah, the ones I remember from childhood were ten or twelve feet tall. I miss those.
I wish they had swings for adults. Seems to me it would be a great no-impact aerobic exercise. All the gyms should have a few.
And why should the kids have all the fun, anyway? When I get my first million dollars and have a house built to my specifications, I’m going to have a tall swing put in. Heck, I’ll have one inside and one outside so I can swing whenever I want, no matter what the weather is doing. And the kids will just have to stay off my lawn!
You know, on safety I’m sure they shorted swings to make them safer but on the flip side, they made them short enough that now the kids who want more of a challenge and what 5th grader doesnt, will use them as chin up bars or jungle gyms which make them more dangerous.
12 ft in Fraser, Co. So… that makes it close to two miles high… 
There’s an xkcd for everything.
My 13 foot tall swing set should have 11 and a half foot long chains.
That is way too far away from my house.
One of my memories of kindergarten: There were two swing sets in the playground, one for little kids and a ginormous one for the big kids. Somehow I wound up on one of the big swings, and my teacher was pushing me. Higher and higher, with each push I was more terrified. And then, panicking, I let go. And went flying. Playgrounds were covered in very sharp cinders back then, and I landed on my hands and knees, with pieces of cinder in my hands.
I don’t know how tall the big swings were; they seemed to reach the sky.
I really liked my kindergarten teacher. I wish I didn’t have this bad memory.
Are you looking for the world’s tallest swing set so you can practice your pole dancing?
Why not just get a tall pole installed for that?
I don’t know if this one “counts,” since it’s not a traditional swing set - more like a rope swing. I went to this awesome playground, which some Googling reveals goes by the name of the “All Ages Playground” or “Ngala Maya Adventure Playground” in the small town of Katanning in SW Western Australia. It had some crazy shit, everything looked to have been made by a mad genius - nothing prefab or safe about it. And my favourite thing was this gigantic swing. IIRC, you grab the rope/swing (which I can’t actually see in this photo), climb the structure on the right, and leap, swinging down under the stand. You can see more of the playground if you scroll through this user’s photos. SO FUN.
Elementary school in suburban Atlanta in the mid 1960s.
There was a swing set that had to be at least 15 feet tall.
Made out of steel. The seats were steel. The chains were steel.
As a child, I had to steal myself to actually ride the dang things.
Of course the playground was plain Georgia red clay and whatever weeds could grow.
Jumping was not something I ever did except in my dreams.
And, in my dreams when I did jump from the giant swing, I flew.
Across the playground and into the woods and beyond.
Do you think the 8 foot swingsets these days are a little boring? I think they are very fun to swing on but nothing like the 12 foot tall swingsets that we used to have back in the days.
If it’s any consolation, the teacher’s memory of that time he or she nearly killed a kindergartner is probably way more traumatic.
In my day, all we had was a rope wrapped around a tire. And we loved it!
LOL! I should “like” that guy or whatever. Love the material.
Yep, another fetish thread, all right. <tapu nodding>