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08/8/2008 at 9:43pm
 Location: Glasgow
 Outfit: vango amazon600 & Vango Icarus 500
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hi, can someone please convince my hubby that a 6ft pole for our new windsock is just a tad too tall! Do sites have restrictions on how high you can 'pull your sock up'? Some advice would be greatly appreciated.

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08/8/2008 at 9:51pm
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oops! i am a fool and useless at units of measurements. The pole is 6 METRES high

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08/8/2008 at 9:54pm
 Location: Nottinghamshire
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We have a 10m pole - so sorry can't agree with you - just watch out for over head electricity cables and bad weather


08/8/2008 at 10:46pm
 Location: Hayle Cornwall
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Yes we have a 9m pole with the last section removed so would agree that a 6m pole is a bit soft. As long as it is anchored properly anything up to 10m in the right position should be safe. Bear in mind that a flag or windsock can be noisy during the night and some have kept us awake in the night. I always drop ours before we go to bed.

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09/8/2008 at 10:16am
 Location: None Entered
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i've seen a few windsocks on site, what do you have these for?



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09/8/2008 at 3:00pm
 Location: Deepest Darkest Dorset
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Someone had a big long pole (ooh,errrr missus) with a lovely eagle on it at a site we were on last week. I wasted a lot of time looking out of the caravan window at it. It looked so realistic, swooping in the air. I wonder where you by these from - and what they're called?  


09/8/2008 at 3:36pm
 Location: Milton Keynes
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We had a 9 metre pole with 3 flags at Fforest Fields. Was used by some people as a compass bearing too.

Next one will be 7 metres ( probably) with 2 flags and a windsock.

PS Don't tell the other half.


09/8/2008 at 3:45pm
 Location: staffs
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Quote: Originally posted by wilkinsj70 on 09/8/2008

i've seen a few windsocks on site, what do you have these for?


there great if you have kids they know what to look for so they can find there was back to the tent/unit.


09/8/2008 at 3:54pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Fruitymiss on 09/8/2008


I wonder where you by these from - and what they're called?  

Windsocks

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09/8/2008 at 4:42pm
 Location: Llangennech Nr Llanelli S Wales.
 Outfit: VW Touareg & Swift Charisma 635
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Got 2 x 6m poles.  Fly a sea gull kite off the top of one..looks great

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09/8/2008 at 5:04pm
 Location: norwich
 Outfit:  Pageant Vendee
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We have a 8m pole and fly a dragon from the top sometimes, we change what we fly depending where we are.

Margaret



09/8/2008 at 5:22pm
 Location: Kent
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We have an 8m pole that we recently bought at the CC National Rally, where we roudly displayed our selection of flags and windsocks. The following week, at a more commercial site, I took the pole down to change a flag and to gaffer tape up some of the sections to prevent them from telescoping when an elderly, flustered couple walked up to me. 'Do you mind getting your flags back up again' the man said with a grin; we've spent the last 20 minutes walking round in circles looking for our 'van. We've always used your flags as a rallying point!

 



09/8/2008 at 7:50pm
 Location: Llangennech Nr Llanelli S Wales.
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I picked up sthe sea gull kite down in Cornwall.  Started to fly it from the pole at about 10.30am.  At about 8.30pm this bloke wanders up to our pitch and says he thought that some one had been flying it all that time!

It stayed up there for over a week!



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12/8/2008 at 8:27pm
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same quetsion applies, get the bit about kids...but really if not for that then why?????

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12/8/2008 at 9:29pm
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Hang on a minute guys,

Aren't fishing poles designed for catching unruly carp, or am I mistaken?



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12/8/2008 at 9:36pm
 Location: Llangennech Nr Llanelli S Wales.
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Quote: Originally posted by wilkinsj70 on 12/8/2008
same quetsion applies, get the bit about kids...but really if not for that then why?????
Fun?

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