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Unread postby Bonevt » Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:24 am

Well its my first meet on saturday and my school ordered a new pole bag, but there was a problem and its not going to come from a little while. I need some to put them in to keep dry, i have a pvc pip but it only holds like 5 poles.

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Unread postby PVPirate26 » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:44 am

we didn't have a pole bag last year so we put our poles in cardboard cartons and then wrapped the cartons in plastic to keep them dry. hope that helps!

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Unread postby ashcraftpv » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:03 pm

go to walmart or home depot and buy a plastic tarp. They're only like $4 and can fit a ton of poles (as well as yourself and your junk) under it to keep them dry.
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Unread postby distancejumper » Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:44 pm

my coach is gunna make a carrying case out of some sort of pipe(It's black and has ridges...don't know exactly what it's called) He's then gunna ductape one end and put handles on it so we can carry it.

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Unread postby VaulteRachello » Sat Apr 02, 2005 1:49 pm

distancejumper wrote:my coach is gunna make a carrying case out of some sort of pipe(It's black and has ridges...don't know exactly what it's called) He's then gunna ductape one end and put handles on it so we can carry it.


my coach made a pole bag outta black pipe stuff that has ridges, maybe its the same thing :D i dont know what it is either but it holds tons of poles.

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Unread postby mcminkz05 » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:16 pm

I made my own pole bag that way for $20.. with the black pipe with ridges, and just covered up one end and wrapped the pipe in some green material stuff that my mom sewed around the pipe. it looks really nice :yes: :D
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Unread postby VaulteRachello » Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:29 am

wow, black pipe thing with ridges is popular!!! haha. wonder what it is exactly. :D

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Unread postby VaultBrad » Sun Apr 03, 2005 10:26 am

you can get it at any plumbing supply store. i cant remember exactly what size i have in my bag, i think its either 6 or 8".

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Unread postby achtungpv » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:53 am

VaultBrad wrote:you can get it at any plumbing supply store. i cant remember exactly what size i have in my bag, i think its either 6 or 8".


6". It comes in 10' lengths and you can get a connector to link the two pieces together and then cut it down to 15' or whatever. It'll be around $25 bucks total for 2 10' pieces & a connector. Lowe's carries it for sure, Home Depot usually just has 4", but a few stores have 6".
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Unread postby Bonevt » Sun Apr 03, 2005 12:16 pm

Alot of people put them inside their pole bags to protect the poles from getting spiked and such. I would highly suggest it.

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Unread postby lonestar » Mon Apr 04, 2005 11:25 am

It's called corrugated drainage pipe. The stuff that they carry at Lowe's and Home Depot is single wall, meaning it has the ridges on the outside and on the inside. It gets the job done but it's really flimsy, and if you don't have a bag full of poles, flops around like a piece of spaghetti.

The other grade of the same pipe is called double wall, where the inside of it is smooth. It's much more rigid and doesn't really bend at all even if there are no poles inside of it. Looks exactly the same on the outside, but smooth wall on the inside, and still very lightweight to carry, but much more durable. Much harder to find though. It comes in 20' lengths and you just cut it off to whatever length you need, so no connectors are necessary. I went all over the place and Lowe's, Home Depot, Ace don't carry it and won't order it. I ended up going to an industrial plumbing supply place who would order it, but it's taking over a month to get the stuff in.
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Unread postby meg15078 » Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:02 pm

Last year we never took a pole bag because we only had 2 people w/2 poles but these year we had to start bringing one


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