[quote=gaslight;17075055]So, I want a chin-up bar in my house but I can't screw one into a door frame or anything else because we rent.

Using the collective powers of your thinking, what solutions are available?[/quote]
Workout World etc, have ones that you can use without screws. They're telescopic so you take them down after use.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17075055]So, I want a chin-up bar in my house but I can't screw one into a door frame or anything else because we rent.

Using the collective powers of your thinking, what solutions are available?[/QUOTE]

I made this:
[url]http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=82332&l=52f58&id=733247032[/url]

But what you could use is two short lengths 2x4, one on each side of the top of the door frame. Held in place with G clamps done up really tight. Then, rig the chin-up bar off them.

I wish I was a brown bear.

full time worker, full time student and full time poster, not to mention all those songs you seem to work on

can i have some of your cocaine

[QUOTE=Aaron;17075072]Workout World etc, have ones that you can use without screws. They're telescopic so you take them down after use.[/QUOTE]

I asked at a gym equipment store about those a while back but they warned me off them as unsafe. When I first heard about it I was stoked though.

[QUOTE=Aes820;17075073]I made this:
[url]http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=82332&l=52f58&id=733247032[/url]

But what you could use is two short lengths 2x4, one on each side of the top of the door frame. Held in place with G clamps done up really tight. Then, rig the chin-up bar off them.[/QUOTE]

You made your own bouldering wall? Amazing. :chug:

And that's also a pretty sharp solution. I'll definitely look into that.

[QUOTE=Meatplow;17075089]full time worker, full time student and full time poster, not to mention all those songs you seem to work on

can i have some of your cocaine[/QUOTE]

Aaron is our resident methlete.

I like to play.

Haha. So Chris, just confirming, a good set of properly done up C/G clamps would safely hold my body weight? I'm about 80kg after a good meal.

That's a very impressive effort Chris. Good job.

By the way, I added you on Facebook.

Well I'm no engineer. But it should hold. Provided you don't bounce around on them, like some people do when they chin-up.

Your body weight would be taken by both the friction of the clamps holding the 2x4 against the wall above the door, plus by the 2x4 sitting on top of the door skirting boards (which by themselves should be able to hold a decent amount of weight).

It may not be ideal tho. Because you'll have to take it all down if you want to shut the door. Maybe the shed/garage would be better.

The thing about not being able to drill because you're renting sucks. It's not like it's hard to patch a hole in gyprock.

I am 92kg of lovin'

Excellent dude. It's actually pretty convenient because there are a few doorways in this house without the doors installed.

And yeah, oath to that, landlords are bogus.

[QUOTE=Aaron;17075160]I am 92kg of lovin'[/QUOTE]

McLovin?

gas how tall are you? Approaching the 6 foot?

I'm about 5'11" in the devil's reckoning.

I put forward the idea, we are very similar in build.

I am McLovin'

I actually have that written next to me on my wall at work.

Cool man. See how you go. But take it easy. It would suck to knock your arse out with a G clamp falling on you.

I found out before long that that single air matress under the woody just isn't enough. A decent fall and you go straight through it. Hip meets pavers.
So I've now got three air matresses.

You know, I actually didn't know why there was an air mattress in the completed photo.

But that seems so obvious now.

Quite possibly we are Chu, I just measured, I'm 183 cm. I'm not built but not too skinny and I see unable to change that no matter how much I eat or (don't) exercise.

Chris, would it be better to get like a foot thick crash mat like they have in gymnastics or something?

I probably won't build this contraption for two or three weeks but I'll post pics when it's done.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17075220]Chris, would it be better to get like a foot thick crash mat like they have in gymnastics or something?
[/QUOTE]
$$$ !

Plus. They are a bugger to store when you're not using them. Air mattresses fold down to nothing.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17075220]Quite possibly we are Chu, I just measured, I'm 183 cm. I'm not built but not too skinny and I see unable to change that no matter how much I eat or (don't) exercise.[/QUOTE]
I'm ****ing skinny, but I eat so much food, by all accounts I should be ****ing huge.

I definitely don't do exercise, and [i]any[/i] muscle I have has come from guitar, and there's not a lot of it.

Ah heavy, I guess unless a gymnastics centre goes bankrupt you can't really snatch one up cheap.

How about if the bouldering wall would overhang a pool? Now that'd be sick.

[QUOTE=gaslight;17075306]Ah heavy, I guess unless a gymnastics centre goes bankrupt you can't really snatch one up cheap.

How about if the bouldering wall would overhang a pool? Now that'd be sick.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but splash damage could be degrading.

Waterproof bouldering wall then.

Well, in that case, why not make a dome cover for the pool, and you climb on the inside of it. Would be pretty hectic at the top!

Now that would be something. I might have a job teaching like beginner guitar soon.

Nice, tax free income :chug:

Yeah, it's at a music school but it's cash money I hear.

the back door has a bit of a jamb i can grip

gonna start doing chin-ups with my regular exercise, problem is i got no strength at all and can't even do one. I can at least exercise those muscles pulling myself up and down though

Aaron i can't get it on my computer, is that all your stuff?

My ideal exercise set up would be like two height adjustable bars that I could chin up/upside down crunch and stuff off of.

i can do like 3 chin ups. im like 100kgs

I can do a few, but the only place I can try them is on like door frames at uni and that which isn't ideal because you only get to grip with your finger tips/right on the knuckle joint as opposed to a proper hand grip. Also to that fear or rust and nails, and having someone walk by and think you're a complete spaz.

i can do 8 and i'm 107kg. but then again, i'm pretty much taller than the bar

[QUOTE=gaslight;17075306]How about if the bouldering wall would overhang a pool? Now that'd be sick.[/QUOTE]
Thailand and Mallorca are good for that.
[url]http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-MlRE60k4is[/url]

[QUOTE=I_WEAR_RED_PANTS;17075438]i can do 8 and i'm 107kg. but then again, i'm pretty much taller than the bar[/QUOTE]
True, aye :lol:

Haha, I suppose you could try holding onto the bar, and bending your knees at a right angle to knock your height off a bit.

Chris, are you interested in Parkour?