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LARGE SCALE

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on November 16, 2011

I have seen one of these built at a larger scale in a park. The park's major axis dimension was something like 15 foot. I would like to build one in a garden for children. How can I scale these calculations up to for a larger scale project?

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