Originally Posted By: esshup
laugh I was wondering if you had access to a punch press.

1/8" or 10 ga.? wink grin Sectioned die or angle and welded? (I'm guessing sectioned die - well, actually punch, but you know what I'm talking about wink )

Methinks you'll fit right in! There's a few others here that know what we're talking about.

It feels stable now, but for the long term it'll stay stable for a longer period of time if you cross brace between the uprights unless you've sunk them down over 1/3rd the total length. If you cross brace, tie where they cross each other together. You'd be amazed at how much stiffer that one fastner makes things. But, it's in a lot of shear.


I used 11ga HRPO Steel. Everything was parted out on an 44 station Amada Coma 567 turret punch. The angle brackets were then bent on a Cincinnati 175ton - 12' bed Hydraulic CNC press brake with sectionalized quick change euro style tooling, then welded and painted.

As far as stability, The 6" PT timbers are all 5' in the ground, even the short ones. They have been in place for about a year hand have had time to settle and pack in. I used a 60" hydraulic auger to make the holes and back filled around each pole a few inches at a time, tamping with a old broom handle. The 4 tall ones in the center are 72" tall, so almost half the pole is in the ground.

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