Backyard shade ideas

[trophy8]

Matt, you can buy square tubing for that pretty cheap. No more weight than what you'll be holding up, you can get 1 1/2 and slide it into a 2" piece in the ground, or probably even 1 1/4 standing in 2" You can do the same thing with top rail joints for a chain link fence. Put a coupling in the ground in sack crete and the top rail will stand up in it... They come standard in 10 foot joints... Probably under 5 bucks a piece at Lowe's.

Bingo. You're the man.

Also, it's in an HOA that's why I want to be able to remove it. My neighbor is gonna have fun when they see his haha

[trophy8]

I think I'll find a piece of 2" tubing and try to make a 6-8" hole in the ground and concrete. Thought about round holes to double as a corn hole game . Anyone in my area sell it or have some they aren't using?

[Ironman]

I think I'll find a piece of 2" tubing and try to make a 6-8" hole in the ground and concrete. Thought about round holes to double as a corn hole game . Anyone in my area sell it or have some they aren't using?

Get a couple of receiver hitches and use 2" tube. The problem with standard tube is there is a seam that will hinder another tube sliding inside. A receiver hitch doesn't have this seam on the inside.

I would also go deeper than 6-8". You don't want the wind to come up and have a couple of pieces of tubing fly out possibly getting someone hurt.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Junk yards should have that lying around. You can buy a short piece and chop it whatever length you want... If you were closer, I could fix you up... If you can't come up with what you need, send me an email or PM... we'll figg'er out how to get you what you need...

[Casey]

I don't know that I wouldn't angle them into the ground or somehow figure out a way to adjust the sail shade up or down. If you had a few anchor points welded to the tubing, you could move the west end of it down to provide even better shade later with a sinking sun. I like the idea of a footing with a larger pipe, like the receiver tube mentioned above, in the ground where you can pull these out and store.

[dmk]

Not to be overly cheap, but Harbor Freight has solar screen tarps. Maybe cut it diagonal and sew it. Think the one I got was about $25 or so.

[Shane]

I don't know that I wouldn't angle them into the ground or somehow figure out a way to adjust the sail shade up or down. If you had a few anchor points welded to the tubing, you could move the west end of it down to provide even better shade later with a sinking sun. I like the idea of a footing with a larger pipe, like the receiver tube mentioned above, in the ground where you can pull these out and store.

Or just hang a 2nd shade straight down the outside/west wall while the other one serves as the roof.

[jer_james]

Do the sails hold up to the heat in terms of durability and fading?

That would be a good reason to make them so that they could be taken down.

[dpg481]

I bought a 10'x14' solar shade off amazon a few weeks ago for about $50 and it had great reviews for its durability. Buy that and a stick of 2 3/8 pipe for a little over $30 for a 32' stick and some scrap 2 7/8 to concrete in the ground. I bet the whole thing would cost around $150 or less including hardware to secure the shade.

[DapperDan]

How is it that no one else thought of the greatest infomercial ever for this!!!

https://youtu.be/o69ox2twOhU

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[Chad C]

The shade sails are awesome! Luckily our Bison sponsor had already done the dirty work when we bought the house.



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[Charles]

If you're going for more of a redneck theme, you could concrete a some poles in a few 5 gallon buckets. Just make sure one or more of the poles have a tether ball attached to it.

[Dale Moser]

If you're gonna pull that shade sail as tight as it needs to be, you'd better dig really deep holes, and put a hell of a lot of sakrete in there!

Your neighbors poles will be leaning soon!

[MASTERS]

If you're gonna pull that shade sail as tight as it needs to be, you'd better dig really deep holes, and put a hell of a lot of sakrete in there!

Your neighbors poles will be leaning soon!

Yep I agree

[bobc]

If you're going for more of a redneck theme, you could concrete a some poles in a few 5 gallon buckets. Just make sure one or more of the poles have a tether ball attached to it.

And if you don't have any buckets, you could always use some old tires.