Thread: X-Cross Plans

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Does anyone have plans for an "X-cross" frame for hanging a skeleton. I did a T-cross last year, but it was a big pain. Having to set it into concrete was not the easiest thing in our yard.

I am thinking of something along the lines of what was in Planet of the Apes, where the apes used them for scarecrows.

If you have any plans or ideas, I would be very appreciative.

Wow, how big/heavy a skeleton?

Yes, anytime you go vertical, you need some safety against falling over - but if you keep the decor lightweight, you should not need to build it like a house.

I remember the X things on that cliff or mountain in PoftA...creepy.

Is your ground just grass lawn, or something else? If I were doing in my yard, I would maybe make the X out of 4" PVC pipe, this keeps it strong but light. Easy to get in 10' lengths. I would drive wooden stakes into ground at each base, and strap/screw the PVC pipes to them to keep the bottoms fixed to that point. I would then lean the x backwards just a tad, then use a 2" PVC pipe (painted flat black) to be a support piece to the X crossing. It also gets staked into the ground with a separate wood piece. I might also attach black wire from the top of the X poles to a nearby tree (away from TOT path), so that is they were to fall, they would fall back to the house, not the sidewalk, etc.

If more base weight needed, use buckets of concrete instead of pouring a ground footing.

If you don't like round pipe look - put a face around the pipe using foam or cardboard or lightweight something, to form a square post look. But let the pipe be your strength support member.

I was hoping to do something that would like more like natural wood. I do agree the PVC would be easy to do, but it just doesn't seem to be the right fit for my cemetery.

Thanks again for the advice though.