Got the garden finished, though I realized after it was dark out that I still needed to take care of my over hang. It has some latse on the top that I need to take off before the snow comes. I should be able to get to it by the end of the weekend, I hope. So the yard is pretty much ready for spring, in the spring I will split root balls and we should be good there.
Got back to the game board some. I started drilling holes to put the screw on parts and try that out. I think I might need to redo the nut side and re-cut the bolt to be deeper and longer. The problem right now is if you screw it in it will pop the nut out. But I could drill a bolt size hole past the nut to avoid putting leverage on the nut. I am attempting to avoid that by glueing the nut in with wood glue, which I am guessing is a bad idea but we shall see.