• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m really not sure how much of this thread is a joke. Wouldn’t you just use solid slats of wood?

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      11 months ago

      One definitely should use solid structures, metal or wooden. The damned thing cost ~10$ and I didn’t have time to build a proper support structure at the moment. I meant to use it only as a temporary solution, which I forgot when everything was fine.

      The design of the arch itself wasn’t the problem. The interconnecting pipes were only 1-2mm thick, so there was no way it could possibly support the weight of a flourishing grape vine.

      It was marketed as a “rose arch”. I guess it could’ve handled this purpose without any problems.

      Buy wrong stuff, suffer the consequences.