Just added some additional photos that include this. The top is about 2 inches out of plumb.

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He's basically creating his own leaning tower of Pisa!

IMO, You'd better spend your money knocking that all down and properly building a new pier on a solid footer.

That's not a professional masonry job, so all you'd be doing is spending your money fixing someone else's DIY project. It likely doesn't have a proper footer or even one to begin with, the bond is off and the joints are a mess. It may be hollow too, and it shouldn't be.

If you have a trade school nearby with a masonry program, that'd be an approach to have it rebuilt with some skill and not at the full blast professional mason price.

Well the thing is leaning away from the gate. That gate would actually assist in this situation.

I’d do this if i were to give it a go.

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Might be able to mudjack it into being level. Contact a mudjack outfit for a quote. If they can do it, it will be cheaper.

Lol!

I'm debating between this, and digging down and trying to bottle jack up the base. Either way I think I'll have to add more/deeper concrete to the footing to prevent it from continuing to lean.

Why wouldn't it be leaning the other way then? Looks to me it's leaning away from the gate

That's an understatement. Either the brick or the footing is being eccentrically loaded by the gate. The whole things gotta come out.

This is beautiful

Find someone who lifts concrete, such as driveways and such, they’ll know

That’s a great website

I’d just dig a 12”x12” or larger trench around that thing, add some rebar or at least wire mesh and just pour in concrete. Maybe go 18-24”on the side away from the gate if the earth is a bit soft, it will act as a counterweight.

When it’s dug out you may be able to pull it straight. Get a nice chain hoist or some 10,000lb ratchet straps and give it a anchor point 15-20’ away, pull the top back straight.

If you get it stable but not perfectly level, you can always hire a welder to fix the hinge one last time.

No way that fix is gonna cost you $14k.

https://www.americanpoleandtimber.com/wood-timber-products/challenge-course-zip-lines-ropes-course-materials/ looks like they have what you're looking for. They say they have posts up to 52' long and 20" diameter. How much they charge I have no idea.

I would start by digging down level with the bottom of the footing on the down hill side, an area big enough to work. Then I would wrap the down hill side of the column and the two sides next to it with osb. 2x4s reinforcing the corners. Rig a strong ratchet strap from around 2/3s up on the leaning column to the base of the other column with enough tension to hold leaning column in place. Brace the column with a couple of 2x4s from above the ratchet straps to strong stakes in the ground on the down hill side. Space the stakes around twice the width of the column apart and around 8 plus fleet from the column. Dig or drill a hole on the down hill side centered on the footing about a third of the width of the footing and three to four feet deep. Fill hole with fast setting concrete. It needs to be under the footing enough to be able to use a jack between it and the footing. If the footing is round on the bottom you will need to cut a inverted shelf for a jack point. Next day use a bottle jack to level column and Re-Tension the ratchet straps and adjust the 2x4s. Dig a hole on each side of the previous one and fill with concrete to the bottom of the footing. Let set, remove the jack and fill that space with concrete

I don't think he's talking about designing a commercial coffee machine, I think he's talking about a one-off hobby project.

And people do pay that for coffee machines. A Jura Giga 6 is about $6000, a Z10 is around around $4000. Neither of those is considered to be a "Pro" machine.

Honestly yeah, breaking it and starting over to begin with would probably be easier since it’s the likely outcome either way trying to DIY this as a beginner.

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This article covers a bunch of stuff you'll need to know and calculate for this. I think your 4 6x6 idea may fit with this

https://www.ziplinegear.com/pages/how-to-build-a-zip-line-section-one-concepts

I believe you'll need to figure in a lot more wood than you may be thinking. It will probably need a platform at one or both ends, and guy anchor posts at each end.

>because it wouldn't meet their minimums

Find out what their minimum is and ask them if they would do a smaller job for their minimum cost, if that is reasonable to you, maybe

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Hard to tell from this picture but to me column looks plumb and coincides with wooden fence post also. Gate looks to be sagging down towards ground ..have you ever put a level on the column to check for plumb ? If so I apologize I’m just going by what I see…..