H/D whirly washine line pole socket?

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Hi All,I popped into Mums yesterday and noticed her whirly washing linecanted over at an akward angle.I mentioned it to her and she said she's poked sticks down the side ofit to try to keep it upright (bless).Anyway, I was thinking how I could make it more substantial for herand before I started making a sub lawn angle iron frame or concretefooting etc I though I'd ask here?I think I'd feel better with fifting a bit of the turf and doingsomething underneath than trying to drive some angle iron down aroundthe tube (going wherever it wants). Do they make a tubular socket spike (like a 'Met-Post' for washinglines) ?All the best ..T i m

Harvey Van Sickle · Accepted Answer

On 08 Apr 2004, T i m wrote-snip re: garden airer- Yup;  like a MetPost, you can either hammer it into solid ground or set it in concrete.  (I've never bothered concreting ours, and it's still good and solid after 8 years.)(I think I picked ours up at B&Q.)

T i m · Answer

Thanks for that Mate ;-)Got one from B&Q.They had a cloice of 2. One was a plated steel tube where the lower half had been swaged overto form a tapered 'X' section (like a tent peg) and another lightergauge fabricated thing with 3 different sized collers that droppedinto the top to take different sized whirly line upright tubes.I went for the former and just hope it's the right internal diameter?I might also be tempted to 'drill' a thin pilot hole in the groundfirst to help the thing go in upright!All the best ..T i m

Harvey Van Sickle · Answer

On 08 Apr 2004, T i m wrote

Yeah: I'd go for the simpler and heavier-gauge one, too. Even if it's not exactly the right diameter, you should be able to create your own plastic packing/tube to make the pole stand upright.

(I seem to recall doing this with one we had at a previous house -- I think I found some plastic tubing that was close enough, and fit that down the length of the tube -- that seemed more secure to me than just having a collar at the top.)

Probably an OK idea; I didn't bother when I did ours -- I just put a stick into it to hammer it in, and kept checking with a spirit level in the early stages to make sure I was going down straight.

Good luck!

Grimly Curmudgeon · Answer

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember T i m saying something like:

All I used was a piece of scaffold pole and a sledgehammer and chucked a pebble down the 'ole before inserting the twirly thingy.

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