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Unread postby Bruce Caldwell » Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:59 pm

Barto wrote:
VTechVaulter wrote:Weve got a pole from when brian hunter was here. The damn this is 20 ft long (its a 17footer with an extra 3 feet of handle). we just call it absurd


Uhh, who has a 6 meter oven?

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We have 540 meter long ovens that will make a 530 poles LOL corrected to mean 530 meter length poles efficently.

We have a way to add on to the oven to extend the oven by 1' but have not used the method yet.
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Unread postby jhesch » Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:30 pm

bruce, did you mean that you have a 540 meter oven that can make a 530 meter pole, or a 540 meter oven that can make 530 poles (each being approx. a meter in length?). im kinda confused.
and how much do these ovens cost? perhaps i should buy one, make some of my own poles.....sell em off for cheap, make my living off it....ya right. haha

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Unread postby superchau88 » Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:19 pm

one of the girls at our school has a 11' 125 big stick. she put a sticker that says sexy over the stick part so now it is nicknamed the big sexy.

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Unread postby achtungpv » Wed Oct 22, 2003 9:13 pm

Barto wrote:
VTechVaulter wrote:Weve got a pole from when brian hunter was here. The damn this is 20 ft long (its a 17footer with an extra 3 feet of handle). we just call it absurd


Uhh, who has a 6 meter oven?

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Maybe he used the East Texas redneck method of building poles with Bondo.

Carl Eriksson once had a pole that was broken 4 feet from the top. He patched it up with Bondo and it worked just fine...but it was pretty scary looking.
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Unread postby VTechVaulter » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:50 am

yeah, what i said but obviously didn't word very well is that it used to be a 17 foot pole that he just stuck another 3 feet on the top for pole runs and such. its freakin soooo hard to run with.
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Unread postby PimpVaulter11 » Tue Oct 28, 2003 5:17 pm

I don't really name my poles. But I call the white caps on the end of my spirit poles my lucky caps.

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Unread postby jhesch » Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:26 pm

just curious: what kinda person can vault on a twenty ft. pole, i thought the longest manufactured pole was/is 17 ft. 6 in. leading to my second question, if its not physically possible, why is there three extra feet? can someone actually hold there and run fast enough to vault on it?

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Unread postby lonestar » Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:35 pm

jhesch wrote:just curious: what kinda person can vault on a twenty ft. pole, i thought the longest manufactured pole was/is 17 ft. 6 in. leading to my second question, if its not physically possible, why is there three extra feet? can someone actually hold there and run fast enough to vault on it?


Dude, do you even read the entire threads before you post? VTechVaulter already gave us the answer as to why the pole was that long in this post:

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 7:50 am Post subject:

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yeah, what i said but obviously didn't word very well is that it used to be a 17 foot pole that he just stuck another 3 feet on the top for pole runs and such. its freakin soooo hard to run with.



It was lengthened to be heavier for pole runs. Nobody could jump on a 20' pole, it's physically impossible.
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Unread postby jhesch » Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:50 pm

my apologies, lonestar. indeed i do read entire threads, i must've been tired or out of it when i read that one one because i don't recall reading the end part about why he used the extra three feet. thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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Unread postby lonestar » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:23 am

jhesch wrote:my apologies, lonestar. indeed i do read entire threads, i must've been tired or out of it when i read that one one because i don't recall reading the end part about why he used the extra three feet. thanks for bringing it to my attention.


No problem man, you don't have to apologize. My bad for coming across negatively. Lots of details in these threads sometimes! :dazed:
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Unread postby Caseman33 » Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:19 pm

NICKNAME_____THE BEAST__________________

BRAND_________UCS_________________

SIZE POLE ________14'6_______________

FLEX___________dont no_________________

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Unread postby vaultfan » Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:01 am

I could see a "Real World" fan nicknaming their pole Bazooka Joe :D

Or, more likely, a male pole vaulter getting tagged with that nickname :o


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