My Yard Haunting

[Halloweennut08]

Okay so Today I worked hard setting up my graveyard with me being in Ohio and the last 3 years all it did was either rain or very high wind. Does anybody have any good ideas for securing my standing figures. I will try to have my pics I am even trying to build my own website for my pics. When I get it done will tell u guys.

[jadewik]

Two things I've read in several places that might help are:
1- attaching ground stakes to your items and hammering them into the ground
2- putting rebar in the ground and attach PVC (to go over the rebar) to your item. This seems to be the more popular-- since it's easier to set up. If it gets too windy, slipping outside and pulling tombstones off rebar is a cinch with the PVC sleeve.

[putrid]

i have the cheap 4-10$ gravestones you buy at stores. they kept blowing away so I went to a hobby store and bought some small wooden dowels. I cut them so that they would be long enough to put 2-3 inches into the ground and a couple into the actual grave stone. after hammering them into the ground I put a drop of glue on the top of the dowel and then pushed the gravestone on top of it. I know this will only work for a couple years as I will have have too many holes after awhile. But they are just 4-10$ gravestones.

[steelhorse]

a lot of things can be made from scrape lumber laying around or foam if you have it..just look around see what you have

[TK421]

That's a great idea! I just started carving my own tombstones from 2" styro this past year. Previously, I had been cutting 1/2 inch particle board and painting on lettering. I would then drill up the bottom of the board and insert some 1/4 inch bar. This works pretty well with the solid particle board, but the styro is too fragile.

Drilling out some space for PVC pipe and putting sections of rebar in the lawn is a fantastic solution! I'll defintely use that method this year.

Two things I've read in several places that might help are:
1- attaching ground stakes to your items and hammering them into the ground
2- putting rebar in the ground and attach PVC (to go over the rebar) to your item. This seems to be the more popular-- since it's easier to set up. If it gets too windy, slipping outside and pulling tombstones off rebar is a cinch with the PVC sleeve.