Hide Poles

[shoughton]

My hide poles are fairly standard and probably about 6ft long. By the time they're pushed into the ground they stand just under that. Being a good few inches more than 6ft I find that they aren't always tall enough to achieve what I need - but it seems a struggle to find proper hide poles that are any longer!

 

Currently I achieve what I need by building other things onto my hide - such as attaching other poles or branches etc if I can. Works OK, but a more elegant solution would be nice.

 

The Deben poles look the best so far as they extend up to about 7ft I think - anybody got these and can comment? At £60 a set I want to be sure they will do what I need!

 

Steve

[farmshooter]

Can you post a link to these poles, I have a set of 3 of these poles for sale in the forsake section, and you can buy one replacement pole from deben I think for 15quid would be cheeper than buying a new set from them, I'm looking for 17 quid posted for my 3 poles

 

Thanks

FS

Edited May 10, 2011 by farmshooter

[shoughton]

Can you post a link to these poles, I have a set of 3 of these poles for sale in the forsake section, and you can buy one replacement pole from deben I think for 15quid would be cheeper than buying a new set from them, I'm looking for 17 quid posted for my 3 poles

 

Thanks

FS

 

The Deben poles are at Deben Poles - although there is little info on the site. They are detailed more in the catalogue.

 

Are these the poles you have for sale?

 

Steve

[shoughton]

I'll glady have the poles if they are the longer poles, but not if they're standard size.

Edited May 10, 2011 by shoughton

[stubby]

why not try the wilkinsons washing line props at £3 each, they stand around 5ft, then you have the twist lock extension inside, even after pushing into ground, I can still raise mine to 7ft/8ft

ok, so they aint got a foot plate and pointy bottom, but Ive never found I really needed it, even hard ground is acceptable with a bit of elbow, and a saving if your after 4 poles @£3 = £12, rather than 4 @£15 = £60

[steve_b_wales]

why not try the wilkinsons washing line props at £3 each, they stand around 5ft, then you have the twist lock extension inside, even after pushing into ground, I can still raise mine to 7ft/8ft

ok, so they aint got a foot plate and pointy bottom, but Ive never found I really needed it, even hard ground is acceptable with a bit of elbow, and a saving if your after 4 poles @£3 = £12, rather than 4 @£15 = £60

 

A good way of securing the above poles into the ground, is to get some wedge shaped pieces of wood (I used 3"x2") and then drill holes a little big bigger than the diameter of the poles. You can stamp, or knock the wedges into the ground and then put the poles into the pre drilled holes. This has always worked for me.

 

Steve.

[activeviii]

Pinewood extra long, you can get them in 3 piece so they are still short. love my pinewood stuff but with lightness of goods comes lightness of touch, you cant be heavy handed with any of the kit but there is no need to be to tell the truth.

[WoodyPopper]

I use clothes props from Wilkinson as recommended by several people here. I got round the lack of a kicker by buying an extra prop and removing the inner pole. I cut that into 5 lengths (I use 5 poles for my hides). I carry a rubber mallet with me from Homebase (£1.99) and use that to bash in the short lengths of pole. Then I slip the main poles over them.

 

Mind you, with the amount of money I spent on clothes props and spray paint to camouflage them, I wish I'd spent a little more on a set of proper aluminium poles with kickers. The clothes props are too heavy along with all my other clobber.

[semiautolee]

i bought mine from tesco £3.50 each already dark green extend up to 2.5 metres and just carry a big flat screwdriver if the ground is hard and i use a old air rifle bag to carry them in

[shoughton]

Can you post a link to these poles, I have a set of 3 of these poles for sale in the forsake section, and you can buy one replacement pole from deben I think for 15quid would be cheeper than buying a new set from them, I'm looking for 17 quid posted for my 3 poles

 

Thanks

FS

 

As these poles are confirmed as standard length poles and not the Deben (or any other longer) poles, I'll pass thanks. :blink:

 

Steve

[shoughton]

Thanks all for the suggestions (& offers of more standard length poles ).

 

I have looked at the Wilkinsons poles - good value but a bit weighty maybe. I'll probably go for the Deben or the pinewood poles.

 

Thanks again,

 

Steve

[harpoonlouis]

Plastic electric fence poles, light, have a spike, already green, kicker and tons of bits to snag your net on. Longest I found were about 5 foot so I chopped a few spares of and welded them together with a heat gun and clamped them in my work mate while the cooled and stuck together.

[henry d]

I presume, due to the required height, you stand all the time ?

[harpoonlouis]

Sort of, I am just making myself a stool tall enough that I can perch on it virtually standing and just rock forawrd to shoot and then sit back down. Will als add a gun rest. Goal is to save my lower back and stop me agrivating tennis elbow from holding my gun for hours.

[Evil Elvis]

sPEAK TO pAUL hART ON HERE, I GOT SOME CRACKING POLES FROM HIM AT THE BRENTWOOD GAME FAIR, ABOUT £30 WITH BAG, BIG BLOODY SPIKE ON THE BOTTOM AND ABOUT 7" EXTENDED :good: :good: :good: :good:

[shoughton]

I presume, due to the required height, you stand all the time ?

 

You should have been a detective