My only issue at the moment is finding the correct pipe, and ensuring it's threaded. (To screw the pipe together and screw the pully head on top.) Can you lend me a hand and tell me exactly what pipe to get from Lowes or Home Depot ? Not the best when it comes this, my apologies. To anchor the guy wires to the ground I use tie out stakes We've had some pretty good winds and haven't had any problems. I got the aviation cable (guy wires) and hardware from Lowes or Home Depot. I got the Pulley Topper from Christmas Light Show You just have to make sure the Hook Head is going up straight and not angled or it digs into the pole. Believe it or not it doesn't take much effort to crank it up. Jan 24 +3 Colors 4 Sizes Animated Outdoor Lightshow Tree Lighted Display by The Holiday Aisle From 138.99 Open Box Price: 125.59 ( 454) Fast Delivery FREE Shipping Get it by Thu. I grouped 3 strands of each color together and mirrored it on the other side making 6 strands per channel, 8 channels per color. 51 superstrands of Red, Green, and White, making a total of 153 strands of lights. I pretty much did the same thing, only I use 1 winch, but 2 cables to pull it up. I think the hand crank winch's cost like $22 a piece, money well spent. Not sure what what 135 strands weigh but we are looking forward to hand cranking this year. Last year my buddy and I had all we wanted with one color so knew we would not be able to put up the three strands. I use a 3G lighting mega tree kit I used last year, this year I added 2 additional colors and now with 3 strands of lights it would have been too heavy to hand pull up, so I added the winch cranks. Yes I Use 2 boat winch cranks from Harbor Freight.
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