![]() A portable volleyball set should be both easy to set up and sturdy enough to withstand action at the net. Send me a picture.The Triumph Competition Volleyball Set will Serve up some fun under the sun. Fill the tire with concrete and you're pretty much done. If you've got some plastic and a tree in the backyard, tie the top of the pole to a limb of a tree so that it stands up straight in the center of your tire. As to the flat surface, yes, it should be relatively flat anyway so that the bottom of the pole assembly will flat and sit upright. If you put in in ther grass you'll get leaves and stuff under the bottom but they'll fall off after it's dried and you won't see them anyway. I would pour it on a cement driveway unless you put down a sheet of plastic or something. It doesn't matter what you sit the tire on to pour the cement. I usually tie the center pole to a tree or something. Use the shovel to poke cement up inside the tire to fill it full and then up around the pole to the top of the lip of the tire. I usually shovel inside the tire to weight it down. You'll be carefully shoveling the cement around the pole and inside the tire. I put it on sand but you can set the tire on grass if you want. ![]() Brace the pole in the center and fill around it with wet cement. ![]() It's a bloody miracle some of us ever managed to grow up in one piece at all. Like anything you have around children, you have to watch them and sometimes think for them. I was more curious than bright in them days. And if he does manage to hang on, he can pull the whole pole over and conk himself on the head. Don't let small children turn it over or play "pole vault" with it. I can tell you from bitter childhood experience that when the pole starts upward, a lightweight child can get flung a goodly distance when the pole snaps him off the ground. It's pretty easy to move them, though and it's obvious how heavy they are so you have to be pretty thick to want to get in front of one when it's rolling. Don't let it roll over your foot whatever you do because, as I said, all that concrete is really, really heavy. To move them around, you merely lay them over on their sides, have one person lift the pole end to guide it and another one or two to roll the tire. ![]() There is a lot of concrete inside one of those tires and they are extremely heavy. I called these "movable" volleyball posts and not "portable", because, though you can move them around your backyard or playground, I wouldn't want to haul them across town without a really big trailer and possibly a crane. I've even resorted to using nerf volleyballs and beach balls to reduce the danger to smaller players and to make the game more fun to play. That is, unless it's an all men's group or you have one of those pesky ego-maniac show-offs who thinks it's fun to spike a volleyball into a kid's face to show off his prowess in front of the women-folk. Then, I put the net at full height so they can't spike the ball so easily. Men, even church-going men, are dreadfully competitive. I always use the women's height for groups of kids or church groups to make it easier to play. String up the net and you're ready to go. Roll the volleyball standards into place on either side of the center of a large flat area 30 feet wide by 60 feet long. Install the eyebolts or eye screws so the eyes are all on the same side of the upright pole or post. If using wooden posts, drill a hole slightly smaller than the eye screw and a quarter inch or so shallower than the length of the screw. Predrill holes for eyebolts a bit larger than the bolts or a bit smaller than eye screws. If you're using pipes drill all the way through so you can bolt the eyebolt in place.
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