The three prong bent steel bar base

The base is a critical component, and the most often overlooked. It should be good looking, durable, and proportionally sized. Cheap bases made from angle iron ruin the look of your art. The hardest part may be locating the steel, it usually comes in 20' lengths, most distributors require you have a commercial account, and their minimum purchase is $200 or more, so you'll have enough steel for 20 years. Because making a few bases can be so much work, we now include 4 Bases with each Kit. This includes the nuts and bolts for attaching them to the elbow. You can forget about the hassle of making the bases, and spend your time on the fun part, making the art for inside the hoop!

Heavy duty bent steel bar pointed three prong base.
Complete sprinklers ship fully assembled.

The camera is level, the ground isn't. This is a good demonstration of why a base that inserts into the ground is required. Anything less than a heavy duty steel 3 prong base, falls over, or at the very least start leaning, and then they stop spinning. They're unpainted, because the paint rubs off when you stick it in the ground anyway. The heavy gauge hot rolled steel will last without paint, and it adds to the rustic look.