Today I worked on a project I’ve wanted to do for a while now. You see, a few weeks ago I went out to look at my shade sail and noticed one of the poles leaning inward. This was the one pole I installed myself. It is 0.7 meters into the ground with 12 or more bags of concrete holding it place. Apparently, this isn’t enough; the pole moved from it’s 3 degree or so backward lean to about a 2 degree forward lean. I suspect the pole will hold but the inward lean gives me just enough doubt to want to do something about it.
So, today I did.
I got my son-in-law Dwayne involved. He’s a tradesman (boilermaker – welder) and he jumped on the project like Arnold Schwarzenegger jumps on a new Terminator movie script.
We made a plan. We executed it this morning. And, now the shade sail pole brace is built and installed. I still need to tighten the assembly but that will have to wait until the ground bracing concrete drys. We’ll give it 2 days; that should be enough to ensure we’ve got a solid ground brace.
I took a few short videos to document this project and want to share them. So, sit back, relax and enjoy these short videos so you can get a better idea of what we did to brace the shade sail pole.