In John Passaneau
wrote:

In the front yard its a real one piece spun aluminum flag pole for the
"looks" and in the back the pole is a 21'long 1 5/8" steel pipe that
is used for the top rail in industrial chain link fencing.

The fence top rail stuff is actually rigid enough to not only stand up
by itself, but to support a little side load? Any idea how much farther
up you could have gone without the thing starting to get floppy?

Sounds like something worth looking at.

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Bert Hyman W0RSB St. Paul, MN