06/18/2026
Broke out the hammer drill to help punch this one inch dia hole in this mounting plate for a playground twisty slide. The factory hold down solution was this super anemic 1/2" dia ground rod barely 18 inches long and was going to require some precise measurements to get it ro land in the middle of the plate before the slide is mounted which isn't an easy thing to do in a sand pit. I custom made a 5/8" dia by 24 inch long stake that will now be drove down through the extra hole after the slide is installed so we're taking the math out of rhe equation