Flag Poles
Submitted: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:05
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Laura B
Whats the best stuff to use to make them? My thought was to AQUIRE one from the local golf course but that woldnt be right would it!!LOL!!
We dont have a fibreglass uhf Aerial and are not going to buy one purley for the fact that we have a shed full of aerials as it is -
well 6 any way!!
I know to use red/orange/anything
bright so the flag its self is fine - just stuck with what to use as the pole
Any Ideas??
Laura
Reply By: ro-dah-o (WA) - Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:14
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:14
A friend of
mine 'aquired' a golf flag and had a quick release bracket machined up for it. this uses a split pin and allows for easy removal.
Other alternatives could include a flag pole, Agricultural supply stores will sometimes carry fibreglass rods for use with temporary electric fences. They are a long white rod, about 9 mm in diameter. I looked at this but the longest that i could get was 5 ft, not long enough for a bullbar, but long enough for a roof rack. They only cost approx $6, add a pair of red frilly nickers with a zip tie, and your on your way
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Reply By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:15
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 11:15
laura,
Amongst that shed full of aerials you have, is there one of those heavy-spring based ones that you could use as a base either on the bullbar or roof rack? If so, use it as the starting point, and insert a suitable diameter piece of steel pipe (not too long, say 1 foot)..........I found the one I had accepted a gal tent pole just nicely. Into that short bit of tent pole, I tech-screwed the next size down bit of tent pole (they are telescopic if you see what I mean).....and then into that I screwed a length of light curtain rod (the stuff that has a white plastic coating).
All up it's about 6' long and the sprung base is mounted on my roof rack, just above my door. The flag itself was picked up off the side of the road here in SA (those road works blokes are forever leaving them laying around!!!) and it slips over the top and is tech-screwed and cable-tied onto the pole.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Roachie
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Reply By: Member - Andy C (WA) - Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 14:52
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 14:52
I picked up a fishing rod from cash converters for $16 and $1.70 worth of bolt and nuts/washers from Bunnings - a bit of Araldite and hey presto.
Just got a bit of red vinyl off-cut from a tarp place and glued that to the end!
Cheap as chips - has enough bend to get thru overhanging trees without damage!
I went
orange last year on the CSR but from my photos realised that the colour was almost exactly the same as the dirt.
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Reply By: geocacher (djcache) - Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 00:12
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 00:12
The mines in Kalgoorlie have a requirement for flags on all their small vehicles so the Haulpaks can see them and not run them over.
I was looking at them in the safety stores and thought they'd make a brilliant dune flag. The pole is a red poly tube like the black sprinkler system stuff with a length of spring up the middle to make it more rigid. A bid like a big speedo cable.
They had a quick release mount sort of thing on the bottom and flag at the top and were perfect. But we had finished our trip and I didn't know if I'd need it again for years. (I did but that's usually the way when you don't get something.)
Can't remember how much they were but remembered thinking that being compulsory must jack the price up.
Dave
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