This umbrella will be awesome when finally being able to enjoy. Do to the rain and hail we were not able to completely setting it up. Putting it up is a bit of a challenge, and inside of the base has two like bladders to fill with sand. ( I need to buy sand) I do like that the stand was included with the umbrella. 
The umbrella stand  stem. It’s all one piece. The whole arch stem  stand, the crankshaft and the umbrella are all one. I’m not quite sure how well that will work during the snow season. For you will
 need to store it and that’s going to be 
a challenge. 
The material of the umbrella is nice quality, the arch  stem is a nice quality as well.