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1) How do you level a tapered pole?
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Tape a ?/20 nut 3" down on a 4' level.

B) What do you backfill with ?
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Sand, the same spoil you drill out. Again, these poles are 7" in the ground, 25' AFG.

3) Do you ever have to go back and level them up? If so, how?
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I have set hundreds, get them close the first time. They will tend to settle a bit, but if one is slightly out of plumb, only the people on this Forum would notice/care.:smile:

D) What's the weight?
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Got that info at the office, let me see if I can find it on the wicked web.
 
LarryFine said:
Interestingly, yes. Years ago, while on a SCUBA dive trip in central Fla (I don't remember where we were, but it was in manatee country), we got about a foot of snow on New Year's Day.

The dive was still great.
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Hold on a minute! Snow in Floria? YES in 1989 xmas day. But a FOOT OF SNOW????? Not! I'm from Sarasota, Manatees neighbor
 
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Hold on a minute! Snow in Floria? YES in 1989 xmas day. But a FOOT OF SNOW????? Not! I'm from Sarasota, Manatees neighbor
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It had to have been before 1987, because my son is 21 and this was before he came along. It had to have been after 1975, because I was born in '55, and started as a helper when I was about 19, and I was on the diving trip with the girl I met while I was a helper.

I'm pretty sure we were somewhere on the Crystal River, and I distinctly remember swimming in a fork where fresh water and brackish water came together, because I purposely swam with half of my body in each water, feeling the temperature difference.

Does that ring any bells of familiarity? I may have exaggerated the depth of the snow a bit, but it was deep enough to form an intact layer of snow everywhere; at least a couple of inches, more than a dusting. Also, it may have been Christmas Day, not New Year's.
 
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It had to have been before 1987, because my son is 21 and this was before he came along. It had to have been after 1975, because I was born in '55, and started as a helper when I was about 19, and I was on the diving trip with the girl I met while I was a helper.

I'm pretty sure we were somewhere on the Crystal River, and I distinctly remember swimming in a fork where fresh water and brackish water came together, because I purposely swam with half of my body in each water, feeling the temperature difference.

Does that ring any bells of familiarity? I may have exaggerated the depth of the snow a bit, but it was deep enough to form an intact layer of snow everywhere; at least a couple of inches, more than a dusting. Also, it may have been Christmas Day, not New Year's.
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That's better. You were in north Florida. Much colder there. There were Manatee's in the water. Not in Manatee County. Yes, you did exagerate the depth of the snow but you are forgiven being just a little younger than me. it woul have been colder than in sarasota.
 
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That's better. You were in north Florida. Much colder there. There were Manatee's in the water. Not in Manatee County.
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I didn't say Manatee County, I said manatee country. I didn't even know there was a Manatee County.

Yes, you did exagerate the depth of the snow but you are forgiven being just a little younger than me. it woul have been colder than in sarasota.
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You mean we have to stop exaggerating when we get older??? :mad: I'm gettin' off the train!
 
Larry I was in Pensacola in 1975 & 76 and I remember it snowing. Couple inches melted by 3 in the afternoon, shut the whole city down. I've got some pictures of snow on the palm trees some place. I rode my motorcycle while it was coming down.:smile:
 
Winter of 1976. It snowed one day in Fort Myers. I remember that day. The kind that mostly melts before it hits the ground. They closed 1-75 in Miami that day because of snow on the road. It snows in Hawaii also, but only up above 10,000 ft elevations.
 
Earlier this month, during a 2 week stretch of more than -40 F cold spell (my thermometer only reads to -40 F) you folks down in the states upset me with all those pictures of palm trees, and scantily clad ladies..... and electricians walking around in shorts! Never thought I'd live to see the day!

Well, we shipped that weather down to you on the jet stream.

Now you're at it again. Didn't you learn your lesson the first time?
 
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