Would you heat up the anchor bolts and try to straighten them or break out the entire sonotube and start over?
ok... you are gonna have to have a new pole, as the flange is shattered....
the flange looks like aluminum tig welded to the pole. not a forged fitment.
it looks sand cast, and pole sits in a socket, with a bead around it.... if i had
to fix it, so it was safe, i'd get a piece of aluminum plate 12" square, bore
four 1" holes in it for anchors, and get a machine shop to bore a hole for
a slip fit for the pole, cut off above the existing weld.
slip it on, and tig it above the pole with a full weld, with four 1'' beads
spaced around the bottom. rotate the base 45 degrees relative to the
existing bolt pattern. drill 4 holes, and epoxy in some running thread
in the same size as the existing bolts.
so you have a 3" plate, with a hole bored in it, four bolt holes in the plate,
welded on the pole.
stand the pole back up, and away you go. double nut it and level it,
and dry pack it.
is it worth it? the machine shop i have stuff done at would probably
make me a plate like that for a couple hundred dollars. what's a new
pole and base cost? cause you are gonna have to replace both of them
otherwise....
is it safe? i'd be ok with the repair. it'd be stronger than the original,
and if we needed to test it, we could duct tape an attorney to a chair
right next to it, and hit it with a jeep...... :lol: