My husband put this trampoline together in less than three hours. He says it wasn’t as bad as he assumed it would he! Our backyard is at a downward slope so it tends to be a wind tunnel against the back of our house where it is the only flat are of our back yard. which made us worry. I will say we have had this trampoline a week and it survived three days of very windy rain without the ground spikes!  We are relieved becuase this is a Boredom buster during covid 19 pandemic