100 ft pole climb

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Today we had a fun project. We had to climb a one hundred foot tall flag pole and repair it. I used the rope wrench on this one so I had a nice ride down after climbing this fiberglass slippery pole. Here’s some pics from the job. And at the end of the climb one of the managers said to check out a package that came in. Yup it was 20lbs of weed from CA sent to the wrong address. I tried to post some comments about it on my personal face book page but the face book police keep taking my comments down. Kind of scary. It was an awesome day to day though.


heres some pics from the climb
 
Thanks Cary,
It was defiantly an exciting day in all kinds of ways! Did you check out the last pic on my personal page? They keep taking my comments down crazy. Check it out
 
Don Coble was the arborist on Penn State Main Campus from about 1927 until the early '70's. One of his duties was to paint the flag poles in front of the Old Main Admin building. They were 103 feet tall. He made his own rigging to scale the pole, I don't know what that was exactly. He was also an amateur photographer and there is a photo around somewhere that he took of himself painting the pole with the roof and facade of Old Main behind and below him. Cool pic.
 
cool ! always really dig your post oldoakman .
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What do you figure/ how do you figure what the SWL on the top of a flagpole to be? I know most of the weight is compression. I guess you would like to climb with your back to any wind, like cone collecting.

Seems a little spooky to me.

Nice work. Wouldn't want to do it on a windy day.
 
Good question. One of the managers said the pole can with stand 100mph winds and said it can sway 12ft from side to side pretty crazy I would not want to be up there in that!. The sections of fiberglass pole were attached with 6ft sleeves in side so it was pretty secure, but still a little nerve racking as I got closer to the top and it started to wobble more. I kept thinking these sections better hold my azz!
 
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Today we had a fun project. We had to climb a one hundred foot tall flag pole and repair it. I used the rope wrench on this one so I had a nice ride down after climbing this fiberglass slippery pole. Here’s some pics from the job.

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Like your other post on parakeets, the link just drops in on a Facebook page.

Rather than needing to dig through a FB page, how about using the forum's attachment tool here, or the image link tool?
 
Thanks Andrew it was a fun climb!


I will try to set up a Monk parakeet climb this winter if you are interested?
 
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I will try to set up a Monk parakeet climb this winter if you are interested?

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Sounds good, even if it is cold, looking at a bunch of parakeets might make it feel better.
-AJ
 
The last time I climbed a flagpole I made a set of what I call pole prussiks. I'll see if I can dig up my old set or a picture. I took the shortest sling I had, 2' I believe, doubled it over, then slid that through a double section of bicycle inner tube. Once I had this with biners through both ends, the ends of the biners were only about 2 1/2" apart and were cinched nicely by the lanyards I ran through them. With two of these I was able to scale a fiberglass flagpole and attach a new pulley.

If I were going to make a new set for a similar task, I think I would use a suitable cam-lock strap for adjustability and add a rubber no-slip section of a few inches.
 
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