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How To Make A Flagpole Out Of Wood. I'm thinking it may still be done this way by the boy scouts. Another makes them out of solid cedar snags taken out of the woods.
A wooden flag pole can be more aesthetically pleasing than a metal one. Passersby who view your homemade flag pole displayed in your front yard will likely wonder if it was something you had custom made. Eye bolt, pulley, cap and reducer.
A wooden flag pole can be more aesthetically pleasing than a metal one. Another makes them out of solid cedar snags taken out of the woods. For a wood pole, a hinged base is a neccessity.
Planers and drawknives and sanding to get the stock round and tapered. Passersby who view your homemade flag pole displayed in your front yard will likely wonder if it was something you had custom made. I imagine a suitably straight tree was selected and felled from which a flagpole was fashioned.
A place in new england has been making them out of doug fir for years. The wood can be stained to give an old, crafted look. Eye bolt, pulley, cap and reducer.
Fasten in place with lock washers and make sure the eye bolt is oriented as shown below, this will prevent the bolt from opening over time and. Back in the day, flagpoles were made almost exclusively from wood.
