21 foot scaffolding pole.

Hi all.
Hope I'm posting this in the correct forum.

A fellow  Breaker , lives in Rossendale Valley,  Lancashire and is looking for a 21 foot scaffolding pole.
I wondered if anyone has any connections in that area? 
Thank you..

Hi Pauline.

I wanted to purchase a scaffold pole over 15feet but found that the delivery cost was actually more than the cost of the pole - due to the length and vehicle used for delivery!

So I ended up buying 5 interlocking 5ft aluminium poles from Doug at Knights Electrocomm. You lose a few inches because of the interlock sleeves, but they are light, strong and won’t rust. They do them in various diameters too.
I gave the locking faces a liberal coat of mountain bike assembly paste/copper grease. This is to stop the poles fusing together over a long period.

Thank you

You are most welcome Pauline.
I suggest that you buy a guy bracket and guy wire too. The only drawback I found is that the poles will bend if you live in an area like I do that is open to strong winds.

you could also if wanted to make the interlocking poles more secure is where the poles interlock drill a hole all the way through and put a nut & bolt through to secure like I did with 2 sections of poles.

Hi Pauline.
21' scaff poles are very very heavy.
How does your friend plan on mounting one ?
Most these days are galvanised so rust isn't too much an issue.
Your best bet would be to spot some local scaffolding lads and ask to buy one off them


You can get 10' ally poles from Toolstation for £16.99, 1.5" they slide into scaff poles.
https://www.toolstation.com/search

I'm interested in the outcome because I've been humming and hawing for over 12 months and still have no homebase antenna installed.

Thats what I done a few years back. My neighbours were having work done to their house so I asked how much to make one of the 21 foot poles appear in my garden, A couple of cups of coffee for the lads and it was mine   You don't ask you don't get. Only thing is when I moved house I had to leave it behind because I could not fit it into the van I hired  

Nightprowler wrote:

Thats what I done a few years back. My neighbours were having work done to their house so I asked how much to make one of the 21 foot poles appear in my garden, A couple of cups of coffee for the lads and it was mine   You don't ask you don't get. Only thing is when I moved house I had to leave it behind because I could not fit it into the van I hired  

You could of cut it in half then got a joining sleeve


https://www.tubeclampsdirect.co.uk/product/1426/scaffold_clamp_pressed_steel_sleeve_coupler

I could of but I didn't have an angle grinder or any other power tool that would of done it only a blunt rusty hacksaw and if I tried using that I would still be sat in my old back garden cutting it now two years on