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Setting poles for sheds

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tjw

06-08-2003 21:19:18




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I have some 21' - 24' logs that I want to use to build a pole shed. Don't have a front end loader. Do have tractor with boom jib. What is the best way to set the poles?




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Robert in W. Mi

06-09-2003 16:07:26




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 Re: Setting poles for sheds in reply to tjw, 06-08-2003 21:19:18  
What kind of logs are they?? Unless they are treated or something like Black Locust, they won't last all that long. It would be a shame to put a lot of work into a pole bld., just to have the poles rotted in off 10 years or so. Just a thought, Robert



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Fighting suburbia in NC

06-09-2003 04:47:35




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 Re: Setting poles for sheds in reply to tjw, 06-08-2003 21:19:18  
You can use a jib pole at the base of the pole you are trying to set and two tag lines attached to the top to steady the pole as you pull the top of the pole up with a rope or cable over the jib with the tractor. I am not sure that you will be able to lift the poles high enough with the boom to get them balanced enough to drop in the hole without doing damage to yourself or the tractor or somebody else.

If you can run a pulley to someplace close by and at least half as high as the poles you can pull them up and use tag lines to steady the poles as they rise. Did this recently to two 35 foot poles but we had a pulley at the top of the barn they were going up beside and two tag lines.

Or you can try to sweet talk the next phone or power company boom truck you see into setting them the easy way. I know someone with a TecElec 40' boom truck and it is the only way to do certain things..... ..

Just don't drop one on you or anything else.

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Sam

06-12-2003 14:44:08




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 Re: Re: Setting poles for sheds in reply to Fighting suburbia in NC, 06-09-2003 04:47:35  
could some one explain a jib pole, sorry for my ignorance.



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Fighting suburbia in NC

06-13-2003 08:26:19




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 Re: Re: Re: Setting poles for sheds in reply to Sam, 06-12-2003 14:44:08  
A jib pole is a short pole used as a lifting aid, typically for getting long pieces like poles or aerials off the ground and headed vertical. They work on the principal of changing the direction of pull from along the ground to upward. Take a long pole laying on the ground - to get it to go skyward you need to pivot it upward about its base. Unless you have a skyhook usually the best you can do is a pulley mounted to something tall. The jib pole is your "something tall" - attach your cable from 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the pole, take a short but stout pole and slide it under the cable, jib pole base just off the base of the pole, but push its top up under the cable till it is at least a 45 degree angle from horizontal. Now start pulling the cable - the jib pole will act as a pivot and redirect the force of the cable up to pull upward as the jib pole pivots toward the pull. The pole will rise as long as its base is not sliding toward the puller. Simple but effective. This description was harder to write than I thought it would be so pardon the awkward interpretation.

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