Australian ASAP

richardd

Full time elf
Joined
Jan 3, 2011
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347
Location
Geraldton
Hi All

I'm trying to make ASAP pole and want to know what others here might have used to make their telescoping Mega Trees

Here is the problem I run into My original meta tree was a 50mm pipe in the ground and than a 4 metre 40mm pipe that was inserted in the 50mm pipe. (This was solid but way hard to put up) Now I want to make a telescoping tree and the next size I can get is 32mm but this will not fit into the 40mm pipe. The 25mm pipe would have too much slop. I could do a medium duty 32mm --> 25mm --> 20mm and wondering if the 20mm would be to weak at the top I want to raise the tree to a height of around 5 -6 metres

Thoughts
 

bpratt

Senior elf
Joined
Mar 31, 2019
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562
Location
Jimboomba, Queensland
Have a look at aluminium tubing.... I've used 48mm x 4.4mm thick walls scaffolding tubing, with 38mm x 3mm thick walls that slotted inside the 48mm.

6m lengths for each, and total of around $140 for both poles.

Much lighter than your usual galvanised poles, and easier to deal with by yourself.
 
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