The Christmas tree fell over several times.
And the top made a decent scrape on the wall.
Which I still have to repaint.
When we buy the tree, we just walk onto the lot at Frattalone's hardware on Grand Avenue and buy the tallest one they have. Takes us all of 5 minutes to pick out the tree.
We have 10-foot ceilings on the first floor and because we put it in the opening in the staircase anyway we're not really constrained by height. It also doesn't matter if it has a flat spot because we stick it in this corner and can orient it to hide any asymmetry.
That's probably why we had the tragedy last year. The tree was too tall and unstable for the stand we had.
So we got the Hummer of tree stands for this year. Note that in the photo this thing is on a 6-foot diameter rug. It also weighs as much as a decent sized Sumo wrestler.
That should keep us from reaching the tipping point this year...
We bought something similar this year. The tree is top heavy relative to where those screws are, such that those screws can form a pivot point if they're not tight enough and the tree will still tip. Our old stand had a nail poking into the bottom of the trunk, which kept this from happening.
ReplyDeleteThis stand has a 1/2-inch diameter spike that's 2+ inches tall. I drilled a matching 5/8-inch hole in the bottom of the tree trunk. That should kept it from tipping over...
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