Shirlee, with the first 4 poles I maneuvered the tractor lifting the poles with a chain; Kim and another person (Jim) help push them up and in. The other 4 poles me and Kim did it by ourselves with the tractor and I had to keep getting off to help maneuver the pole around or move the chain and then back on the tractor.
We got the poles at a different place than James did before and these are what they had. You really don't need poles that big, the other ones in the other shade area are shorter and not as big a round. At my old place I used 10' tall (8' after put in ground) x 2" wide PVC for the structure. You can use the steel pipes also, like Lyle uses.
The reason they are so tall is because we got 12' poles and I could only go down about 3' with the auger (not a full size tractor so smaller auger) and we kept hitting big rocks so they ended up not being as deep as we planned.
This is Kim (I'm loading the photos from my phone and this is showing up sideways, not sure if it will be correct or not on a PC
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Me on the tractor
