Hi Justdowntheroad! You've hit on the biggest problem I've run into with Glass Garden Totems. It is really hard to get them to sit perfectly straight on rebar, since it is much narrower than most vase openings, and the top, where the glass rests on the metal, isn't flat. I've been playing around with pvc pipe which is fairly cheap and easy to cut, It comes in lots of diameters- but be aware that the measurements are of the INSIDE diameter of the pipe. If you slide a piece of pvc pipe that fits inside your bottom vase, over your rebar and make sure it extends just a bit past the top, AND make sure it is cut flat and level, your Totem should sit nice and straight. (of course your rebar needs to be sunk into the ground straight up and down too!) Good Luck! Kathy

Thanks again all! I offer them priced 2 ways one with pole and one without. Most of the girls can just sit without a pole or people can do whatever they want for the pole themselves. Laurastheme I learned here a long time ago how to attach them to the pole. Here's what I do others may a have better idea. I usually use some type of candle stick, simply because the opening is normally about 1/2",then use an adapter (in copper)that goes from 1/2" to 3/4" and attatch to the pole on 3/4" end. I put vaseline in the 3/4" side, makes it easier to slide pole on and off. The tricky part is the glue. You are glueing copper to glass and silicone won't work. I was told to use "plumbers goop" which does fine for maybe a year. Now I've switched to 2 different glues. One is "Welder", my husband brought it home from Lowes and he thinks it will do better than the plumbers goop (time will tell). After that drys I wrap it in that new glue, the kind that is 2 colors and you knead it for awhile until it all the same color.The glue ends up kind of rubbery, you can shape it. I shape it like a worm and wrap it around where the copper meets the glass. It drys like concrete. I hope it is be strong enough, using 2 glues, to hold. I also hope I have not totally confused you. Please ask me any other questions or someone else may have better ideas. Thanks again,Rose Mary

speculating.. maybe they are going to come along with a logging type truck.. grab the thing.. cut it once.. and pop it on the truck and be done with it ... no ID specialist.. but it doesnt look like hardwood firewood trees... maybe conifer ... off to the paper mill??? would be curious if you run back thru there in the future.. whether they will be gone if they dont finish the job.. they are going to be back there next year .... so i suspect the job is not finished.. rather than a bad job .. ken

I would just leave it. The top half would not be healthy and green if the bottom was dead. The bottom has just developed "corking"....pretty common in old cacti. It's like the bark on a tree! Looks cool the way you have it propped up!