Universal In-Ground Pole Stabilizer (PS10) Gray

I have had one of the hanging basket poles lean over the past few years. I have a pair of them so they need to be exactly the same, not one straight and the other leaning. They have a good anchor fairly deep into the ground, along with concrete. The ground is soft near of the poles and with weight from the flower basket, it starts leaning. This has fixed the problem. The poles are in an area near my deck which has landscape gravel on the ground and no grass. I scraped away the gravel, marked the landscape fabric for the feet position, slit the fabric and pushed the feet into the ground. I ended up using some brown spray paint on the tops of the 4 arms, so the shiny metal of the arms does not show through the gravel, even though it is a good 3 inches thick.

Great product! The four stakes that dig into the ground are larger than they appear in the picture on the Amazon site. They're more the size of the lower half of a heavy duty trowel; quite impressive versus the wire type devices.I noticed some reviewers saying they drive the stakes in the ground using a hammer; the instructions warn against this. All you need to do is gently push down on each stake with your shoe and keep working your way around until you have all the stakes level with the ground.The fact that the device anchors poles up to 2" in diameter really worked out for me. My pole is 1" in diameter but I have an augur attached to the bottom of the pole that the pole fits into. The auger attachment is probably 1 1/4" in diameter and this is what the stabilizer had to fit around. If I had purchased a unit that fit just 1" poles it would have never fit!

HIGHLY RECOMMEND! I only give this 3 stars for assembly / install because I had to assemble it ON the base of an existing pole that was buried too deep to extract. So I had to crawl around the bottom of the pole and ground level, twisting and forcing screw holes to line up. MY FAULT. But any buyer should know in advance that its absolutely best to assemble this and THEN mount your existing pole into/through it. Having said that, we've had this base installed now for 3 months, to include months with freeze/thaw/earth shifting, and the pole is rock steady. FYI, we have about 10 pounds of seed in 2 feeders + a fat feeder atop this particular pole, and the pole has not tilted even a fraction of an inch from the weight of the hanging feeders. Amazing!

We have a large 4 hook shepherd's hook. With the weight of the pots (especially when freshly watered) teh hook tended to sway, and had fallen over a couple of times, especially when the soil was wet and/or we had high winds. Looked at a number of stabilizers, but most would NOT work as this pole is SQUARE, not round. This stabilizer fit the bill PERFECTLY! Large enough that it works on the square post, and since it's a 2 piece unit it was VERY easy to assemble around the pole and tighten down. Very easy to "step" into the ground. Only (minor) problem is that, as many reviewers have noted, the ground has to be ABSOLUTELY level or it sticks up a bit. Not a problem in our case since it's in a mulch bed, I'll just add some extra mulch to cover it. Have had it in now for about a month, thru rains and wind, and the hook doesn't move! LOVE THIS PRODUCT!

ordered 4, one was missing all screws delaying project and costing more.

This stabilizer worked well to keep our feeder pole straight. Crows had found the suet feeder on this pole, stressing the stability as there is a seed feeder on it as well. The apparatus had to be hammered into our ground and popped up higher on one side even after leveling the install site but has since settled in nicely. We are pleased with its properties and are ordering another for our other, also double, feeder which is even more plagued by squirrels or at least the one squirrel that seems to consistently leap over the squirrel baffle, hang upside down and try to empty the tube feeder. I’m not sure a stabilizer can do anything about our acrobatic critters but it certainly does keep our pole and feeder upright.

One of the tips were broke off and there were no screws to hold it together. I am returning it for a new one fingers vrodded!

I bought this unit for a 1-1/4-inch wooden pole to get additional support beyond sinking the pole into the ground. The issue is raccoons, which are strong enough to tilt the pole because they can sit on a railing that the pole is close to. The unit is very sturdy, made of steel; and well designed so it can be assembled around the pole without having to remove the pole from the ground. Although not Prime, the unit arrived within a few days, much sooner than the estimated date range. One commenter said that it came without the thumb screws. That was not true in my case, and the manufacturer, in response to my query, said if they happen to be omitted, contact the manufacturer. As I say, they did come with my unit and worked great.