In 1974, fresh out of the army, Michael Garnier went to rural Oregon to try to make a living off the woods. He tried making furniture, fences, pole barns and selling organic, psychedelic picture propellers (to see Fantasy Flakes), but finally it was a treehouse that got him all the attention. Modeled after the treehouse he had once built for his kids, his first treehouse B&B was completed in 1990. Today he has 9 treehouses for rent, 20 staircases, 5 or 6 bridges, several platforms and zip lines for rapid descent and at least one fireman's pole. Some of his treehouses even have toilets, running water and showers, though he warns guests to "stand when they flush". Over the years, Garnier has become legend in his industry and helped invent a better way to build a treehouse. Instead of bolting wood to wood (ie beams to the tree), Garnier and his colleagues at the World Treehouse Conference (an event he used to host) developed a way to attach steel bolts and cuffs to the tree. Dubbed the Garnier Limb (or GL), this open source design can support 8000 pounds. Garnier sells GLs of all different types as well as plans to build your own treehouse. His DIY treehouses are for 12 foot trees (0) and he sells about 30 or 40 plans per year. Original story: www.faircompanies.com
“not your normal cerial with nothing in it, this has a very special nothing in it..” XD
@Jason1975ism too much hippie talk. hippie hippie hippie.
@paulscool2011 Thats what he’s doing!! It’s a B&B. LOL
“I really like working with wood”
Beautiful! This is awesome. I’ve always wished humans had built their homes in trees like this…
The ingenuity of the white man never ceases to amaze me.
Dog under bed @ 9:27
This guy is living my dream.Why not adapt and change this so that you could rent out some ‘rooms’, this guy could make tons of money.
@Nabend1402 i know, its just the person i replied to is saying how he’s hurting the trees by building there when he’s not hurt the tree’s around his house and stuff because the tree just adapts to the metal and such
@kirstendirksen Yeah, he’s clearly an entrepreneur! A hippie entrepreneur
Tree-ific! Tree-mendous!
just brillian t
i wanna go
0:16 It’s the Channelwood Age from Myst!
@nightkraawler I guess every plant lover has the same problem, seeing as we have to eat. In the end wood can be the most environmentally friendly construction material, after earth, if you take care to regenerate the natural systems from which you take the wood (or let the systems regenerate on it’s own). I much rather live in a wooden house than in a concrete/plastic glued up box.
1:02 … uh…mm…idk but USUALLY trees are cut down to use their wood.., for example.. a tree house…
JIM’S DAD
amazing!!
@Jason1975ism There is literally only one way to figure out if what you do is worth doing in a sense that you’ll be able to do it and not also have to have a job on a side – it’s making a profit.
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Great video! It’s every kid’s dream.
@skat1140 Tea party “loons” don’t like the way that government has intruded into every corner of existence so that you can’t even build a tree house without government telling you it’s unsafe and ordering you to take it down. Our “peculiar” politics are a reaction to this kind of intrusion into everything. So, sorry you don’t like our politics, but why don’t you ask why it is possible to find an element of politics in even the most innocuous of topics?
I wanna go visit that place , it looks pretty awesome.
irony ..tree houses ARE made of wood, so trees do have to be cut down, but his system at 4:20 of using metal bolts and beams against the tree is pretty ingenious.
LOL socialism of USA bans tree house.
@kurumako : I know that, I was just pointing the nonsense of the sentence…