I took mine down Labor Day weekend after 4 years and replaced it with a new one I bought on sale at the end of last year. I had a problem, somehow water got down into a section of the inch by inch tubing and froze up. Swelled and split the tubing. I cut out the bad sections and welded in new ones. Replaced all the bolts, washers, and nuts and repainted. She's good as new. My old straps were pretty rotten. I had new ones for the new stand and will get new ones for this refurb before I take it back down and put up in a different spot. To keep from having the water problems again, on the new one I sprayed some of that expanding foam in a can anywhere there was a butt joint weld. Will do the same on the one I just fixed too.