Stan in Oly, WA
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I told my sister and brother in law that I would make a platform for them to put barrels of water on to drip irrigate a vegetable garden they have on a back lot. It will make it possible for them to go on the kind of three to five day vacations they enjoy, without having to make arrangements to have someone else water. I have enough scrap 2" steel pipe to make a 6' high platform 8' long and 2' wide. The 50 gallon water barrels are 3' high and there will be four of them. I'm planning to make the legs in the shape of a truncated isosceles triangle, two feet wide at the top. How wide do I have to make the base to make sure it won't tip over? I know absolutely nothing about the calculations necessary to answer such a question.
Stan
Stan