Saturday, May 21, 2016

Flagpole Changes Till Present Days

By Londa Garret


A flagpole is the backbone of a flag, it holds the flag upright for onlookers to see and adds to the overall image. Flagpoles have undergone a number of dramatic changes since people started flying flags. Prior to the industrial revolution, flagpoles were made exclusively from wood. Although a few companies today still practice this craft, most flagpole manufacturers today use more durable materials.

Flagpoles date far back when a banner should be appended to a post or something to that effect for it to fly openly. What we do know is that flagpoles were produced using wood. A carpenter would discover a tree that was straight and prune the appendages and suckers from it to create a shaft.

The pole was then inserted into the ground and a flag tied to the top. Over the years, the wood flagpole was improved by shaping and sanding the pole until it was straight and had a smooth finish. Once that process was complete, animal fat was applied to the entire pole over the course of several days. While the portion of these poles that was above ground would last for 50 years or more, the portion that was buried in the ground would rot.

Close to the turn of the twentieth century, steel banner shafts turned out to be more well known, in spite of the fact that they were frequently essentially the reused materials that had filled different needs. Ships poles were frequently repurposed as banner shafts.

Steel segment shafts used to house trolley lines were used to make banner posts and in the long run, sectional steel banner shafts were fabricated with the end goal of flying banners. Wooden shafts got to be out of date. In the later 1920s.

Producing progress in expelling aluminum shafts drove inevitably to the predominance of aluminum and aluminum compounds as the essential materials for making banner posts today. Aluminum is more flexible as an assembling material, and as creation procedures have enhanced, it has gotten to be far less expensive than steel.




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