somebody is going to tell me to go down to 4 feet 6 inches, but 4 feet 2 inches is all i’ve got. it’s basically impossible to get last 4 inches with the post hole digger i have. i had to cut through some small roots but got very lucky i was able to dig down and just miss a very large root that i wouldn’t have wanted to damage.
hi. ho. if the frost goes down that far, it wins.
i found a piece of a glass bottle 3 feet down which seemed like a long ways down to be finding glass.
lumber yard said, “oh yah, sure, it’ll be straight.” turns out, the pole is not quite true.
bummer, but i’m going to rooooooollllll with it ( baby ) because i really, really don’t want to take it back and i’m under severe time constraints to get it done 🙂
update: putting more thought into it and i think going with something closer to this design might be the way to go.
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now that the more supportive supports are in place, the next project is to make safe staircase. a ladder is just asking for trouble, especially when you ascending and descending at night in the dark while watching movies.
i think a spiral staircase would look great and not take up as much space a regular stairscase. i’m going to try and follow a modified version of this plan build mostly from wood and not metal (except for a few important parts ).
and you can help me build it! i need a metal plate that fits curve of 4″ pole with 1″ hole in center and 5/8″ ( maybe 3/8″ ) holes at corners. i could custom fab them but that would get spendy with number of them that i need.
surely such a thing must be available at specialty plumbing/electrical shops?