Materials list: Planters (half barrels used) String lights Landscape timbres (2.5 x 3.5) Retrofit post bases (2 per post) Lag screws (.25 in x 2 in) Sawhorses or something to set planters on 3/8 in drill bit. 1/2 in drill bit. 2.5 in lag bolts, washers, nut to attach to planter Sealer for wood posts Concrete blocks (hammer if needed) I/eye lag screws in post to hold lights cord

This is the most relatable channel on KZfaq. Dropping stuff, using drywall screws outside, complaining about lumber prices and weather... Subscribed.

SIR....I AM A 57 YEAR OLD WOMAN, SO, IM OLD... AND I KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT WHEN I SAY... THE FEMALES IN YOUR LIFE ARE TRULY BLESSED... PLEASE NEVER STOP BEING THE GENTLE LOVING SPIRIT YOU ARE WITH THEM. IT MAKES OR BREAKS US. 💪

I have to say, I agree with these comments. I've been a single Mom and now a single homeowner trying to do projects ( I cant afford to pay someone, so I do what I can with these DIY projects) I loved seeing you with your girls. My Dad always helped me with projects and he would always tell everyone how I did things myself, he was so proud of me and not being affraid of tackling a project. He passed in 2021 and I miss him soooo much. This light project will be my first project without him amd my Mom. They were always here to help me 😢 Keep up with those girls helping, they'll cherish the memories and the lessons

I came for the lights but stayed for the laughs. Thank you sir!

“Never mind, don’t do what I said. Do it the other way”. Legit! Subbed!

Hats off to you for training your daughters as your assistants. These girls won't be helpless!!

Watching you with your daughter made me miss my dad so much. I helped him do all kinds of work around the house including shingling, flooring and some plumbing. He never treated me differently and was my biggest supporter when I joined the military (outside of my mom). My dad was my best friend and I took care of him till the very end after my mom died. I wish you both the best.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that your girls have skills! My dad treated me the same way, I’m so thankful for what I’m able to do with power tools and diy projects.

I'm 45 and have 3 daughters as well. After watching three of your videos, I now know what kind of man I need to be. I have been letting my family down these past few years and it's time to become a manly man (I just ordered the pocket knife you used to cut up the kindling in the fire pit video). As a first step, I've just sold my home in Commie-fornia and will be moving to South Carolina, where I can now live the American Dream. Thank you for inspiring me, Haxman!

It's awesome seeing your daughter operate the tractor! Hope to get mine to help when she gets a little older

Uh, everything about this video was perfection. From your personality, to your editing, to the instructions. I'm absolutely doing this to my garden/firepit area. Subscribed!

Yeah you need to go viral. Great content, great personality, and good dad jokes

"What are you gonna do if there's a lightning storm? I don't know, don't sit out in it." lol

New nickname for my hammer “the persuader” 😂.. I wasn’t looking for a new project, the project chose me. I hope this channel blows up, I feel like I’ve hit the jackpot.

He’s handy, he’s funny, and he can budget!! You cannot go wrong with this man!!

Love the fact your daughters knows how to operate a tractor.

Brother, this channel is gonna be huge. A real guy saying all the silly crap that all of us do with excellent production quality. I don't need to put up string lights anytime soon but chose to watch you because I keep laughing at your videos. Love it, man.

I have to say I'm jealous of your daughters. My dad was the kind to just leave us with mom cleaning the house, instead of teaching us to do real work, mostly because of my mom. Now I live in the south straight from the caribbean and I have to wait for my bf to do stuff like this around the house and actually teach me. Love the whole project and it looks awesome!

It so wholesome watching you show your daughter most girl don’t get the opportunities to learning thing like this

This might be the first time I ever heard a reference to something from Jack Daniels being used to keep anything from being "tipsy". HAHA

Earned a sub for working with your daughters. I am a new dad to a beautiful baby girl and can't wait to do stuff like this with her. Blessed men.

I love your sense of humor 🤣 its a fun not boring at all🤣🤣🤣

Yooo! I came here to learn to string lights on my deck and laughed the whole video. Total laugh fest, comedy gold with education . Listen up KZfaq people this is how it’s done.

Nothing more rewarding then everyone in the family contributing to a home project.

I have just stumbled across the greatest dad channel lmfao

CONCRETE BLOCKS, GENIUS!!!!

INSTEAD OF DEALING with electrical cord color issues, seeing is believing, jus paint em as u did the posts u painted adding zero costs and zero shopping time for certain cord color- works easy! Ur planters are the very best and Lowe’s should carry and sell YOUR DESIGN QUALITY POST PLANTERS instead of their made in - - - - - crap options! Thank u for making simple outta enlightening design while being cost effective! Best video we had seen for making these planter / light barrels for yard or driveway / walkway - improvements ever! Again THANK U MUCH

Uh-oh! Yet another project for my hubby of 54 years! I just love outdoor lights and this looks super cool!

Only thing I wish is you showed off the finished product for longer.

Just want to thank you for this video. You helped me earn my “man card” at home by putting together a classy, easy to adjust lighting project that really made my yard!!!

Your so funny.. learned something and entertaining.. Kim must love you🔥⭐️💕

The production quality of this video is unreal. Instantly subscribed.

My favorite part of this awesome video was how Haxman had his daughters help out. That girl knows more about driving a tractor than I do!

You are totally my favorite funny builder man. Love how your babies can ride a tractor. God bless you.

love the fact you had your girl helping you .love your video your funny it kipped me watching all the way .

Dude, you keep on making me want to upgrade my fire pit area, which is already pretty dang awesome.

I love that you ran the electrical like you did. Your yard. You know where it is... Haha. Good man

Been wanting to do this for the longest time and extending the string lights from the pergola on the deck to the firepit area. You were spot on that the thought of using concrete was the biggest deterrence -- who would have thought the simple concrete blocks would be such a creative alternative. Thanks and great video!

I really enjoyed watching your video. And I have to agree with the people that wish they had a dad like you, your daughters are very blessed. Thank You and I did subscribe to see more of your fun times.

SO CLEVER!!!! Literally blew my mind 🤯!! Been trying for like 6 years to figure out a way to get pretty lights in our back yard without it looking cheesy. So glad I stumbled upon your channel!

This is so freaking great, I thought he was being sarcastic at first, making fun of us that need detailed instructions with very clear narration and then I realized this man is such a great instructor! I feel like I could easily handle everything he is doing- love this!!!

I wish I had a Dad like you growing up. You’re a wonderful, loving, patient father with your daughters. Love seeing your interaction with them, especially the operating that Kabota.

Love this step by step breakdown. Especially with the sizes of drill bits and screws. Thank you!

Awe this reminds me of when I was young, helping my dad build things around the house! I love your videos!

Love the content especially the sound affects and that you incorporate your family into your videos. I actually just bought all the items for the patio light project, Thanks!!!!!

Its nice to see a kid thats not sucked into a videa game. This project reminds me of my riding mower trailer beer cooler that I fondly call the bar wagon!

I find a lots of rocks in my yard every time I dig for planting. I would use them to fill the buckets. You can also fill with sand and top with some shells or other ornaments. The sand will also be good to stick mini flags for the 4th, and other flags for each season.

Just found your video. Loved it. Your girls are soo cute and I love the way you incorporate them to help you out and give them training at the same time. Love your humor and honesty. Great video. Keep them coming.

I love your sense of humor and you teaching your girls to do things with you! Thanks for the very relatable content!

Okay - another super project well done. ❤👍🇨🇦 and spit my beer out a couple times enjoying your humour.

It is so fun to watch your videos. I love your sense of humor. I bet you could do this with solar lights too. Thanks for keepong it real.

Dude - this is awesome. Especially the bit about using the concrete blocks, and the shrink tubing. Thank you!

I just built my planter poles yesterday!!! THANK YOU for the awesome idea and tips! Such a perfect way to integrate the poles into a design. 👌🏼

I love this video with you and your beautiful daughters working together ❤️ I was in tears about the flimsy sawhorses that I would need😂😂😂 you’re very funny 😂 you now have a new subscriber 💯

LOL... "It's my yard and I know where the cord is going to be." Like A BOSS!!!!! I love you channel, makes me smile!

I love this video and I can't wait to try this with my son!!! Thank you so much for simplifying this project.

Your daughters drove the tractor, so i hit like. You couldn't cut the cable, so i subscribed.

I absolutely LOVE how you have your young daughter assist you. As a mama of four (now grown) girls it was imperative that we taught them how to do everything themselves and assist us properly. Well done- and yes, very funny!! Thank you!! May actually try to do this all by myself ( no longer have the other half to assist....) Cheers and keep doing these videos!

I love this guy! Best dad too. I love how he’s taught his daughters to drive the tractor. Looking for more of his videos.

This turned out GREAT! The planters are beautiful. Awesome job.

I love that you include your children that’s so daddy ❤️. I can’t wait to do this project and show my bf what I learned 😂, thanks for the lighting idea and giving me a boost of confidence along the way 😊 awesome diy 👍🏼👍🏼😎

I am loving this channel. Precious training and memories for your daughters. PRICELESS. You are very entertaining and relatable to for folks like me. The fire pit area looks nice!

"You're gonna want a couple of really flimsy 20 year old saw horses to set your heavy planter on." You're killing me! I swear, I teared up a little bit on that one. Truth! And also comedy genius! 😂😂😆

How do you only have 8k subscribers?! Great content man!

I just built some of these last week. Used a 1/2"x10" lag bolt to hole the post into the wine barrel. Used a big fender washer as a strong back. Then did a 12" sono tube cut to 10" tall as the primary weight. Looked at brackets that you used, but seems expensive and time consuming. Didn't test it, but pretty sure the cement didn't cure to the wine barrel, so it should all be removable. Filled the rest with dirt. I have a 10'x15' shade canopy spread between my 4 with lights and no issues with them being tippy, even in 20mph winds. I like your tension cord, may implement that. Nice looking set up all around.

I absolutely love your personality!!! I wish I was half as handy as you are!! I really enjoy watching your videos!!

Love the way your girls are involved in your projects! We taught our kids early how to operate the tractor and power tools. What a good daddy🥰

It’s so remarkable where the internet leads me and I just happily slide right on down the rabbit hole because it’s interesting.

I don't know about you but I think theez flowerz are juss absolutely lovely 👌 Made me laugh great personality.

First time watching your videos and really liked how you keep it real “showing that mistakes happen” but most importantly how to improvise to get it done !!!!

This is he best video I’ve seen in a while. I love the whole vibe, including the kids too, reminds me of my house, and my upbringing too 😍😍😍

Came here to learn how to make these planters, halfway through I'm a little teary eyed because I lost my dad as a little kid and you're everything I imagined having a dad would be like. Keep up the good work, you have some lucky daughters.

Awesome video and amazing quality. I have to tell ya, you got me with your interactions with your daughters. Give yourself a huge pat on the back for being an awesome dad in teaching them not only the technical skills they're learning, but more importantly, teaching them to build confidence in themselves, their abilities, instilling in them to take on doing things that they may not know how to do every part right now but heck - they trust that they'll learn even more from you down the road - also, not to mention the quality time spent together, taking pride in designing and making something by yourself through watching YOU work, and so, so, so much more. I had a little challenging time convincing MY dad that I truly wanted him to show me some of the woodworking stuff he knew because dad was always thinking it "should have been" my younger brother that would be interested surely because "he was a boy, and boys like to do this kind of stuff." ??? This was even after I showed special interest in my Industrial Arts classes in high school, was always making various kinds of stuff growing up - I just had that creative bug and loved working with my hands - as well as after graduating from high school I continued on in taking adult education courses at night in a couple different woodworking classes. Eventually he realized my interest was real and perhaps it had more to do with letting go of the idea that he thought it could have been a "bonding experience" for he and my brother, I'm only guessing at that, but he told me that he felt bad that he didn't spend more time with ME since I was the one that showed the interest and desire. It's gotta be hard being a parent (or anyone that works with kids and young adults) to let go of the preconceived societal gender related "appropriate" interests of how things are "supposed to go", and instead just pay attention to what each child, boy or girl, is naturally drawn to. But somehow it's gotta start shifting towards that because I'm sure the long term impact will be a LOT more happier kids, young adults, and older adults further on down in their lives, thus influencing generations. Sorry about the length of this response, I sure wasn't intending on it, but your video had so many great things going on about it that went way beyond the "ambiance" from the beautiful outdoor fire pit/seating area that you created. Subscribed. Looking forward to more videos and seeing your girls grow up as strong, confident, and capable women!

I’ve been thinking about doing lights like this and started watching the video and seen your little one helping and oh my heart 🥰 such an amazing worker!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this awesome video! My husband and I followed your tutorial exactly, and now we have beautiful whiskey barrel planters and lights and we're ready for summer! Your tips helped SO much and saved us a ton of money and frustration! Super grateful!!

HAXMAN is entertaining, “fun-ny,” and dare I say it, I consider him family. I love this channel, and I predict that he’ll have his own “family friendly” show very soon. Thank you for inspiring the DIY community.

I work for Simpson StrongTie. Love how you used the post brackets. Great project!

🌿🫶🏻 and the award goes to YOU!! . This didn’t take but 30 seconds into the video to know that is caught my attention! . I realized I love the planter /lights idea because I need these for a new patio area. . THEN, you involved your children !! I can tell you’re a great Dad because they knew how to use & drive the tractor!! . Keep being you, GREAT VIDEO!! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

You sir have the best video on this project on KZfaq thank you

Love this DIY! Also, love your personality and your interaction with your daughters :)

Production value is off the charts bro. This is awesome. You found another Subscriber

This video is exactly what I needed to watch to get this setup completed for my backyard. This channel is by far one of the most informative and entertaining around. And to top it off, witnessing your interactions with your kids is truly enjoyable - Great job as a parent!

I have to say thank you! You remind me of my dad. I too learned to drive with a tractor. Those young ladies will be ahead of the game in so many things in life. Loved the video!

"Now I don't know about you, but these are just absolutely lovely."

Quick tip: When applying the black cord wrapping start at one end of the cord and get the wrap started. Then you can press it on and push it down the cord at the same time! You will save a lot of time time hassle! Project looks great and I will be probably doing the same thing for my yard this year.

I'm guessing you were not a bully in school, your personality can get you out of any situation, thanks for the info bro, subscribed😁

Content that’s worth watching! Humor…educational…and straight to the point! Good job yall! 💯

Man I just stumbled upon your channel, and let me tell you I'm glad I did! Instant subscribe! So down to earth and humble. Keep up the great content and we will keep watching!

Your beautiful girls are so lucky to be taught DIY projects like this. They will be not have to call for a handyman every time when a problem pops up.

Excellent video!! You explain the steps in terms we all can understand, not just a professional....I live that since I'm a women who does projects alone,lol!! This will be my spring project, I will start planning now, thank you!

Growing up I was always helping my Grandad in the garden with his DIYs and snooping around his shed - he was definitely the local hand man! I was always amazed at how he found ways to do something, even if he didn't have the tools to do it or had never done it before. Sadly he passed away quite a few years ago, and now I have my own house and garden that I'm renovating I can't ask him for help or advice. I didn't realise when I started watching your videos quite how much I missed those times - your happy go-lucky attitude reminds me so much of him! I see you with your daughters and it brings so much warmth to my heart! I've also learnt a lot as well which I really appreciate, so thank you :) Laura (from a very rainy England!)

WTG buddy, with no swearing to boot wow, looks great.

Me: spray paints the extension black. Also me: Clicks 'Subscribe' this is a dang good video!

Filling the barrels with stone would look nice too. & your daughters are adorable!

You have the best informidable videos I have ever seen on KZfaq I love watching your shows thank you!!!

Really enjoy your videos! Just stumbled on your channel and now it’s one of my favorites

Ohhh buddy. With this quality of content this channel is gonna blow up. Fan freaking tastic.

This was the most Entertaining DIY I ever did watch. 😂❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for Sharing. 😎

I love that you have ur girls working with you. My favorite memories of my dad are just working on stuff together. He passed a few years ago. I'm blessed to have so many great memories of us together. Keep doing projects with them. When they are grown they will be able to have beautiful memories to reminisce. Gos bless you and Family.