String Light Poles,9.56Ft Stainless Steel Poles for Outdoor String Lights,with Fork and Base,Light Poles Stand for Garden,Backyard and Patio (2 Pack)

These worked great for our backyard! We just set them up so not sure how sturdy they are just yet but they look nice and were easy to install! Great height also!

Sturdy and easy to anchor, take out and move. Just what we needed.

Easy to assemble and very sturdy. We've had them up for almost a year, through so many storms, and haven't had one problem with them. Highly recommend!

We have LED outdoor string lights (the larger "restaurant" style) around most of the backyard and run them every night. Properly dimmed, it makes the yard more inviting for the dogs and less so for the various critters around here. And it's just kind of pretty. I needed a couple of poles for one area where there is no natural tree branch to support them, and dug through all the Amazon models before settling on these, which looked to have a robust system for spiking them into the ground, which was what I needed. These have worked about perfectly. They are solidly built, screwed together properly, and are straight and strong when assembled, which did take a bit of fiddling. There are instructions, but you have look carefully at which pieces are threaded "out" or "in" to get the middle pieces in the right order. The top sections have screws to secure the wire brackets, but one of the poles did not have the screw holes fully punched through, although this was not a huge deal in that the screws still tightened down well enough. The U-shaped wire support brackets on the top ultimately work, but are a little weirdly designed. I believe you are supposed to fit the wire through two flat pieces that fit between two bolts and sit at the bottom of the U, but instead of fitting all the way on the bolts, there is a hole on one end of each flat piece, and an open slot on the other. It all works well enough when you tighten everything down, but leaving one end of the bracket open keeps it from fully securing. This might be a safety measure so that if the pole falls down, it may allow the wire to slip free, but the instructions did not say and it's not an ideal design. However, my wires have stayed in place for several months now with no problems, despite winds and rain aplenty. I did have to set them up again once when my own tree trimming knocked one down, and it was a little awkward but nothing was broken, and the wire was not damaged. The star feature in my opinion is the ground stake system, which has long, strong spikes and has a very solid additional set of spikes that folds perpendicular to the other spikes to form a large "X" at the base. Stomp these down into reasonably solid earth and they aren't going anywhere easily. Overall these are quite solid and should hold your string lights securely. The black poles virtually disappear into the background, and are invisible at night, so they look fine as well. I am deducting a single star because the wire mounting system is slightly wonky, but they do work and I would buy them again, and will get more if I need them. Four spiky stars

We ordered these as we needed a better way to hang lights on our patio for a party. They proved to be prefect, and we got them at a better price here than at local stores. We used them for the party but never took them down. Not sure why we didn't get them earlier...