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oldfogey8
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What about using some 1” pic piping? That stuff is really light and pretty cheap. A few unions and four 8 foot pieces and you could get there I think.Talking about how to get my flag down. I need something about 30-40 ft long. GW says EMT would work and Boos got a pile of it. Still I sigh to see this. I have to fix it tomorrow…
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Yes pvc is a good idea too. If I can’t get the firemen to help, I’ll stop at the hardware store on the way home and pick some up.
Sun&Soil
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@SubGirl Voluntary FD? If you go with @oldfogey8 's brilliant idea, an elbow may be helpful.
dogzter
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So much time on the way down..........bet it was a blast!
Africanna
Well-known member
So much for Red Bull
@SubGirl Subbie Dear -- Puttin' my Enkingeer hat on... A guy in a bucket would not solve your problem, only the single instance of the problem occurring. <-- e.g. the flag can get inna same predicament tomorrow.
Your problem was first noted several centuries ago by flag flyers.
The solution is at once a PITA and... well, sorta necessary. It presents thisaway:
Your expense just to have sumbody unhook it (just once) will be an order of magnitude greater than a permanent fixeroo.
Build this $25 rig for the bottom and you have access to the top forever and ever, Amen:
PS: Try to be neater than this example. Now you have permanent access in just a minute or so.
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Certainly would be a rush. I wonder how much of that time that they realized that their chute wasn't going to open?
That is actually a good idea and one that I've seen improvements on that might be handy given the size of Subbies flagpole.
The outside frames are metal instead of wood and there is a counterweight on the bottom, so that it is more controllable when lowering and it is easily tilted back up after laying it down.
I'll go get you a picture of one done that way today.
PVC is actually nonconductive, but high voltage does do amazing things. Thirty or so feet of Schedule 40 PVC would be flimsy and hard to keep from waving about, so you might consider Schedule 80 or 120.
You could limit the travel on either EMT or PVC by attaching a loop to the top end that limited how far it could move away from the central pole.
