There are tons of places and people who have put out tutorials on how to do a spiral tree. One video I found to be very helpful is this one from this website. But a couple of thoughts that are petty, but you might not think about. First, I found it easier to work from the inside of the tree at first. My tree was only about 10ft tall. I used a step stool to reach the top. It's not shown in this picture, is the top of the tree. You can see some of it towards the beginning of this video; The way it wraps around, you have to zip tie it at the top. With the curve of the tree, you can't hardly reach it with a ladder. I just found this easier to do with a shorter 10ft spiral tree. In this next picture, I show the stakes that like are used in the Brown Christmas video. Not sure if he shows it or not. I wrap mine around a couple of times (around the stake) and wrap it back up the line. Holds better. I have seen this mentioned in a few places before. I just thought it was worth mentioning again. To get your stakes out evenly (stakes...huh?....Watch the first video in this post)...take a string, tie it around the pole, mark it on the string...the number of feet you want it out from the pole. You want a 8ft round base...measure out 4ft...etc.
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