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When the town says "We'll take care of hanging that over-street banner!"
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bikecomedy
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Ahm same thing happened in the city where my shop used to be located. Despite multiple explanations and offers of help they received a similar result. Luckily no one was hurt.
2B
Active Member
exactly,
and since the light pole is laying on the ground, how is installing the banner by professionals going to change the damage to the pole?
Pat Whatley
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Based solely on the look of the banner and the rainy street my guess is that it was printed on regular vinyl banner material and turned into a giant sail in a storm. A 2' X 20' banner in a 10 mph wind is putting over 1000 pounds of pressure on each pole, figure in the leverage factor and that's a whole lot more pressure than those metal light poles are designed for.
(no, i'm not gonna break out the physics books and figure it up)
(no, i'm not gonna break out the physics books and figure it up)
SignosaurusRex
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That looks to be more of proper Light Pole and foundation installation failure rather than a banner install issue.
Judging by the length of the cables, that appears to be a small banner.
Judging by the length of the cables, that appears to be a small banner.
True, but if they did it properly, it most likely would not have come down. We've never installed one of these, on the few occasions we've had requests I gave really high "ball park" for just the banner, not the install. Nobody wants to spend real money on these things, so I've never actually sold one. I won't even suggest less expensive options on something like this.
I wasn't involved in this project, but if I was, I probably would have suggested another location or solution all together. It would never occur to me that a lightpole would be a sufficient anchor for a large banner.
Marlene
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that's why a mesh banner with a low percentage of area that is solid is what a street banner should be made from. either that or it has to have many many holes in it. it looks more like went with cheaper bid from banner shop that was clueless as to how to make a street banner and then hung by city people who don't know either
GAC05
Quit buggin' me
We were asked to do this in the parking lot of a local car dealer. The light posts had a manufacturer's decal warning not to attach anything to the poles and listed banners by name. It looked like (to me) they were set up so that if something ran into them they would shear off at the base to either lessen the impact to the vehicle or minimize the damage to the footing for easy replacement. We talked them out of it.
wayne k
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TheSnowman
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I was just thinking the exact same thing...
we've had some crazy weather the past few days (months? this is a NJ shore town!)