90Xjay
New member
I am getting ready to set 4 steel poles in the ground to build a carport cover.
The steel is 11 guage square 4 inch tube, 18 feet long, the holes are 3 feet deep, so I will have 15 feet sticking up.
I plan on it taking about 2.5 - 60# sacks of ready mix concrete to fill the holes.
I really want some advice as to how to set the poles still after I get them plumb.
I have set wood in the ground and I just nailed in prop sticks on 3 sides while the concrete set. But these poles are tall, heavy and awkward and you can't just nail into a steel plole:lol: :lol:
I thought about taking a 2X4 and cutting two lengths about a foot and clamping them to the pole with big wood clamps to give me some surface to stick a prop under but thats all I can come up with.
The steel is 11 guage square 4 inch tube, 18 feet long, the holes are 3 feet deep, so I will have 15 feet sticking up.
I plan on it taking about 2.5 - 60# sacks of ready mix concrete to fill the holes.
I really want some advice as to how to set the poles still after I get them plumb.
I have set wood in the ground and I just nailed in prop sticks on 3 sides while the concrete set. But these poles are tall, heavy and awkward and you can't just nail into a steel plole:lol: :lol:
I thought about taking a 2X4 and cutting two lengths about a foot and clamping them to the pole with big wood clamps to give me some surface to stick a prop under but thats all I can come up with.