Mark Showalter Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 brownjm74 wrote:Mark, I did something similar last year and it ended up that 9 of the 10 trees snaped in half. Thanks for the report on your trees. I plan on anchor stakes as well as plenty of guy wires. Lori's idea of adding large rebar may be a good addition as well. I'm sure I get more wind than anyone else on these forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORi P Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Mark Showalter wrote:Thanks for the report on your trees. I plan on anchor stakes as well as plenty of guy wires. Lori's idea of adding large rebar may be a good addition as well. I'm sure I get more wind than anyone else on these forums.I don't know about wind, but there is plenty of hot air around here! There probably is a bit of breaking wind around here, too. But fortunately the internet does not carry that type of information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seankovacs Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Mark, where did you find such a tree? The trees I bought from home depot last year are too wimpy to hold that many lights...they were meant for indoor as well, so the branches started to rust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted September 15, 2011 Author Share Posted September 15, 2011 seankovacs wrote:Mark, where did you find such a tree? The trees I bought from home depot last year are too wimpy to hold that many lights...they were meant for indoor as well, so the branches started to rust.I found these trees from a man in Florida who wanted to sell them along with other parts of his display. Because they're metal, the used ones did have some amount of rust on them. Some grinding and painting took care of the rust.Keep a lookout at places like Walmart and the other box stores. You may be able to find these new very soon.Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted September 16, 2011 Author Share Posted September 16, 2011 seankovacs wrote:Mark, where did you find such a tree? The trees I bought from home depot last year are too wimpy to hold that many lights...they were meant for indoor as well, so the branches started to rust.The brand name is "Holiday Time". They were originally white and came with either white or multi-color incandescent lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORi P Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Mark Showalter wrote:seankovacs wrote:Mark, where did you find such a tree? The trees I bought from home depot last year are too wimpy to hold that many lights...they were meant for indoor as well, so the branches started to rust.The brand name is "Holiday Time". They were originally white and came with either white or multi-color incandescent lights.I bought my "Holiday Time" 6 ft wire trees are from Walmart. $40 full price, but I got 4 after Christmas last year for 50% off. Also, the ones I bought are green with LED multi lights. I think Mark mentioned he took the lights that came on it off, but I left mine on for when My display is 'off' but I want to still keep some lights on.As for rusting, I wonder if maybe we should spray with Rustoleum spray paint first? I wonder how much that would help? If you have white trees like Mark did and are going to paint them anyway, maybe Rustoleum would help prolong the life of the trees?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Clapper Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Seen this thread lying dormant and thought I'd revive it. Don FL...How did your Spartys fair in South Bend??Jimswinder...How did your Huskies fair in Lincoln??GO BIG RED!!! BIG TEN CHAMPS first season in!!!I probably shouldn't have made this post right before we head into Madison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted October 1, 2011 Author Share Posted October 1, 2011 Today is a banner day! I finally have all of my seven 6ft trees finished and the Cougs beat Pac 12 newbies Colorado in a fourth quarter comeback.Check out this photo. Over 5,000 LEDs on seven trees. I'm getting strong hints from my wife to move all this out to the garage.:shock: Attached files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORi P Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Mark Showalter wrote:Today is a banner day! I finally have all of my seven 6ft trees finished and the Cougs beat Pac 12 newbies Colorado in a fourth quarter comeback.Check out this photo. Over 5,000 LEDs on seven trees. I'm getting strong hints from my wife to move all this out to the garage.:shock:Excellent - I am jealous! They look great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Tom Clapper wrote: Seen this thread lying dormant and thought I'd revive it. Don FL...How did your Spartys fair in South Bend??Jimswinder...How did your Huskies fair in Lincoln??GO BIG RED!!! BIG TEN CHAMPS first season in!!!I probably shouldn't have made this post right before we head into Madison.Yea, I watched the thrashing in Madison simultaneous with my Tigers getting spanked in NY..MSU's defense played a good game statistically against ND(less than 300 yards total offense), yet gave up 30 points..the offense didn't even show up, but even into the 4th quarter, had some chances. ND could very well be 4-0...I'm still pi**ed about them losing to Michigan.And the award for the ugliest game of the year goes to the OSU/MSU game yesterday..take away OSUs last drive, and MSU holds them to less than 100 yards of offense. It should have been a 30 point win, but again, the offense apparently didn't make the trip.The next 3 weeks will be fun...UM, Wisconsin, and then to Nebraska... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 Mark Showalter wrote:Today is a banner day! I finally have all of my seven 6ft trees finished and the Cougs beat Pac 12 newbies Colorado in a fourth quarter comeback.Check out this photo. Over 5,000 LEDs on seven trees. I'm getting strong hints from my wife to move all this out to the garage.:shock:Damn! I can't do math after watching football. That should have been 5,000 LEDs of each color with 15,000 total on seven trees.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Blair Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 You must still be watching football. 5,000 does not divide evenly by 7. Based on your numbers you have 714.29 lights per tree of each color. Or it could be you are just rounding - now go back to football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Showalter Posted October 2, 2011 Author Share Posted October 2, 2011 Gary Blair wrote:You must still be watching football. 5,000 does not divide evenly by 7. Based on your numbers you have 714.29 lights per tree of each color. Or it could be you are just rounding - now go back to football.Yes, I'm rounding. Some trees have the original intended 2,310 LEDs...( seven 100 count and one 70 count of red, green and white each) some of them with 2,100 (no 70 counts needed to finish) and I think I miss counted on one of them because I have an extra set of 100 count red, green and white's. No wonder I was trying to stretch the lights to finish that one.I'm still looking forward to lighting them up.Had a great weekend. Finished my fourth and final arch, second and final tower and seventh and final 6 ft tree. Now to go solder the EDM and sequence, sequence, sequence.:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownjm74 Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 Here are some update photos of my 6' collapsible trees.More photos can be found here: http://www.brownchristmaslightshow.com/2011-6-foot-trees.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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