Gorilla Playsets Blue Ridge Frontier Wooden Swing Set 4.6 5 48 49
Great product but missing pieces This is a great product especially for the money. It seems pretty sturdy and well made. The directions are pretty straight forward. I did everything myself and it took about 24 hours total.The only negative thing I can say about it was that I was missing about about 12 different pieces and some hardware (screws, torque washers), which is very frustrating when you're in the middle of the construction.The hardware is not a big deal because you can go to your local hardware store for MOST pieces...except the torque washers which no one seemed to know about in the 6 hardware stores I visited, which included Home Depot and Lowes.But, the wood/boards that were missing were key pieces that basically halted the construction. Their customer service is very good, but it took about 3 weeks to receive the missing pieces. 04/24/2009
Very Solid Swingset I chose this swing set for 3 reasons: price, hard roof, quality. After more than 20 man hours of installation, I am not disappointed!As you will see in my pictures, I decided to make it one long swing set instead of the L shape the plans call for. I wasn't sure if my tire swing would collide with the rope ladder and it doesn't in case you are interested in a similar configuration. Also, there doesn't appear to be any structural reason why you can't make this change.Setup was intense and it took a little longer because of the slight design changes I made (note: the torque washers were the one part that came in the slide box instead of the hardware box). Additionally, I added a partial sandbox underneath the tower instead of a full sandbox and that is as big of hit as the set itself.I hope that we are as pleased with this set after 5 years of sitting in the weather as we are now! After seeing the quality of the wood, I think we will be. 04/04/2010
Great playset! So far this seems to be a great playset with good quality. Unless you have several people working on it, plan on an entire weekend for assembly. Regardless of your experience (or lack of it), there are a lot of holes to drill and screws to place. We do have a couple of hints:1. Go through each box in the shipment ahead of time. We had several pieces that were damaged in shipment and one that was missing. Customer service at Gorilla Playsets was very helpful and sent out all of the replacement pieces within a week. It also really helps on assmebly day if all of the wood is laying out and organized. My husband thought I was nuts when he saw me labeling everything with Post-It notes, but he ended up thanking me several times.2. The instruction manual that they sent us was in black & white. We ending up downloading it from Gollia's website and printing out in color....much easier to see what was going on (especially in the first couple of steps).3. The first couple of steps for setting up the main fort were kind of confusing, but past that, everything went pretty smoothly. We also found a few errors in the instructions, but nothing that we couldn't figure out.4. Plan on a run or two to Home Depot or Lowe's. Some of the hardware seemed to be defective....threading was damaged on several of the carrige bolts and the bolts that attach the tire swing beam were no where near long enough.All in all, this playset seemed to be good quality and a good value. Gorilla Customer Service was very accomodating and helpful. We have no regrets in the purchase and would buy again if we had to do it all over. 08/11/2008
Gorilla Blue Ridge Frontier...Excellent! This is truly a great swing set and a great value! By purchasing your set through Wal-mart you save over $500. It lists for $1799 on the manufacturer's site. Please keep in mind that it took two grown (handy) men two days to put it together. It's definately not a slap it together project. Also consider, It's HUGE! 19x20 with a height of over 11 feet! the fort is tall enough for a grown up to stand in. The materials are top quality. It's sturdy, well made and the best deal out there. 03/11/2009
