<p>We took our set down last year, when our youngest turned 14. She was a little upset at us! Of course, she was also upset when we took down the “temporary” side stairs after they’d been in place for 12 years. We put them in the woods because she didn’t want us to get rid of them.</p>
<p>We had to take our swingset down when the youngest was five, because she kept climbing to the top & jumping off.
( I recently pleaded with H not to tell D about the zeroG flights a local company offers- its $5,000! That makes skydiving look cheap!- which is what she did for her 22nd birthday)
We live within two blocks of a nice park however,( with climbers, tennis courts, soccer fields & a pool) so taking down the swingset wasnt a hardship.</p>
<p>I don’t know when we took our swingset down. We finally got rid of our basketball hoop last week. We were trying to find somebody to take it for a long time, but finally had a teacher come pick it up last week. He needed a flatbed trailer to move it.</p>
<p>My neighbor is an elderly lady who brought in a dollhouse when she moved in. They brought it in on a flatbed tow truck and cut through our yard to place it in her back yard. We’ve never seen anybody use it…</p>
<p>We sold ours on Craigslist after more than a year had gone by without our teenage kids or their friends going near our swingset. We had two buyers, almost bidding against each other. We sold to a dad who came to check it out with his two little kids, literally leaving his wife’s side in the maternity ward where she had just given birth to Child #3. We couldn’t decide if he was Best Dad Ever or Worst Husband Ever, but in either case, SOLD! We knew it would be getting a lot of new love.</p>
<p>Great to hear that so many of,you were able to pass your set on for someone else to enjoy. My husband is a park ranger and has helped build and plan many a commercial playground so when he did ours he probably made it comparable. He dug holes to China and filled the, with concrete putting the posts in!!!</p>
<p>The swingset in my parents’ backyard was put up there by my grandfather. It is STURDY, built with HEAVY metal pipes and THICK, HEAVY metal chains, plus LOTS of concrete to keep it secure. It will probably stay there until someone VERY determined decides they need to put something else there. The swings and even tire swings that replaced the swings are long gone, but the frame lasts and lasts. :)</p>
<p>My BIL “helped” install a swingset I purchased for my sis at her 1st house. He REFUSED to read the instructions and only after they were all done (and had used concrete for the footings) did they look at the photo and instructions and realized that they had put parts of the aparatus in upside down (so it was MUCH lower to the ground than intended). It was still in good shape when they sold the house with the swingset. 
We never had BIL “help” again in an installation. ;)</p>
<p>We sold our swingset with the first house. Kids were 7 and 10. Neither missed it at all. Maybe because we had a swingset at our lake club at our new corner.</p>
<p>We had both the swing set and the tree house taken down and hauled away a few years ago. The kids will be 23 and 20 next month. I have a much nicer view of the woods from the screen porch with the tree house down</p>