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fiberglass poles
By pepa, Section Diaries Posted on Tue Jul 15th, 2008 at 07:10:11 PM MST
on the chopping block

i origanilly aquired these poles to rip down to rails for fencing and discovered that the poles make nice windmill towers. i have two set up at present, the first was made as a tiltup and then discovered a better way as a permnate tower with track up the side and a cable over top to winch the mill up to the top on a special made trolly riding on rollers inside the track. the permanite tower does not need guys with the smaller mills and the trolly can carry the guys up with it on the larger windmills, i had a 17' up for testing before i moved it to a new sight.
i also found that i could stack the poles, one over the other, to make any length i need to get clean wind. they come in different lengths and diameter and i could pick the sizes i need to make a tower. i also discovered that i could cut the poles in half for transport and reassemble at the erection sight. some of the poles are 50' and not easy to carry over the road with out a special trailor to haul them on.
there are some of these poles left after i finished my fence project and any of the board members that need towers can have them if you are close enough to come pick them up. could be that one person could pick the poles up and take a few back to a drop where others could come to pick their poles and help the currier wilh gas money for his efforts i live about 30miles north of savanna ga. suesminnisathotmail.com varnville sc
let me know and i will work with you. the poles are free. pepa

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Re: fiberglass poles (3.00 / 0) (#1)
by RogerAS (theropod at yahoo dot com) on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 06:40:35 AM MST
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Pepa,

You old dog you!
:-)

I had begun to think you'd gone to that great battery shack in the sky! Great to see your posting. How ya doin' these days?

Interesting work with the track-up-the-tower system. I would really love to see a posting focused on this alone. Consider this a beggars request. Show me how that works, please. I have several real tall and real strong cedar trees to which I might mount a system such as this.

Oh how I would love to have a couple of those poles but alas I'm too far away. It seems all these great things are out there to be had, like that little engine you bought, but I'm always either too far away or don't have the means to haul it off. That radius to go get stuff is also shrinking with the price of fuel. I drive a short box '92 Ranger 4X4 with a 2.3. Not much of a puller, if you know what I mean. It does get about 28MPG if I drive with an egg on the accelerator, empty. No body panel is dent free. Too old and ugly to steal and runs too good (now: search diary) to park.

Have you considered attempting a set of blades like others here have done with PVC pipe? Maybe these would be lighter and one could bondo/foam-in some places for a better profile. Just a thought.

So, good to read your posting, take some pictures of that crank-up system and don't be such a strange err! ;-)

Oh, that Sony you gave me took a picture that I sent in to a kinda local TV station and they put it on the air!

It was a visitor during the weekend of the fourth. A thunderstorm had just passed, and I think it had been flushed out from under a rock or something.

Roger AS
8 Years off-grid & counting

Re: fiberglass poles (3.00 / 0) (#2)
by pepa on Wed Jul 16th, 2008 at 09:06:21 PM MST
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--hi rodger, good to hear from you, too. that is one big wooley bugger! i will take few more pictures, i have some pictures in my files that should help you. i will also draw up a easy method for you to assemble the track on the ground and then raise the complete unit up beside the tree for mounting. give me a few days.
over the holidays my health took a nose dive for the last six months BUT i am back now. soon pepa

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Re: fiberglass poles (3.00 / 0) (#3)
by pepa on Fri Jul 18th, 2008 at 11:49:59 AM MST
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roger, email me if you see this reply. pepa suesminisathotmail.com

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Re: fiberglass poles (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by Bruce S (bruce(dot)stahl <at>gmail (dot)(com)) on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 08:45:40 AM MST
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Roger AS;
I visited with Pepa, just last week. I too have a few pics of the pole.
The tracking system is a thing of simpilcity and darn stable too.
I'm just getting back into the "work" thing, but I can post the pics I took if it would help.

Cheers;
Bruce S

Pepa, Sure was a nice visit!! Wish we could've stayed much much longer!!

Bruce S

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Re: fiberglass poles (3.00 / 0) (#5)
by pepa on Mon Jul 21st, 2008 at 12:12:56 PM MST
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high Bruce, me too. and thanks for the backup. i am working on drawings for a track system for Rodger AS to install on a tree, will post when finished. pepa

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