[mbushroe]

We had the parents build us a full game field on the kick-off weekend, so we discovered how bad the lost cost field pyramid was right up front.

Best solution is to weld it. If you can not weld it, the second best is to cut sheet metal gussets for all 12 'corners', bolt three bolts up from the intersection on leg, and then fold it about 2 inches out each way to match the horizontal bars and bolt them with three bolts each. The bolt heads will be less of an obstacle that the wood plate and U bolts.

Third is to keep what you have and stiffen it. That is what we ended up with. They added U bolts between the legs and the wooden wedges. They needed a slot cut in the back of the blocks of wood so that the U bolt plate would not slide up. And we added floor to top guy wires with turnbuckles on three sides. That leaves us with one side to test inside and outside up-the-middle climbs, and fairly good corners to test outside up-the-corner climbers.

Mike