I have read many of the messages connected with this. You will know that a pipe is much stronger and more rigid than a solid bar. It can of course be strengthened with a non-compressible filling like cement and running a little rebar through the cement will make it even more rigid. Several years ago I installed a pole for holding up a basketball hoop for my son. It is a four inch diameter pipe, well two actually, one inside the other made that way to shorten it for shipping. I formed a box 18 inches square and about a foot deep from plywood, removed a few patio lock stone bricks and dug a hole to set the box into using it to form up cement. The pipe was set into this and the pole filled with cement which I tamped down very firmly every few inches as per assembly instructions. It stands still, 15 years later. It wants a little paint especially where the two pipes fit together, I assume because of the dielectric causing some corrosion.
I would think that a four inch heavy sewer like A B S pipe might work equally well packed firmly with cement. You could form your 'T' for additional lines and it would really hurt to hit with a truck or anything else. this would not be a suitable solution though if you wish to remove the pipe when not in use. Getting the old piece out will be very difficult. I like the cork screw solution best, if you can get the beggar to turn you should be able to work it up and out. Otherwise it is probably busting up a square of the pavement and digging it all out. ----- Original Message ----- From: Spiro To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:35 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] clothes line pole Hi, I have a ?heavy? metal pipe with a 4 spike cap that is used for a clothes line. My neighbor across the drive likes his alcohol consumtion; and he has quie dented another neighbor's fence. He got a big SUV and ran down the pole. It is bigger and heavier than the 2.5 inch in our chain link fence in front. But I've not measured it yet. Here's what I want to do; check it out and let me know if I'm on the right track. There's a pipe in the ground, cemented and flush with the driveway. The pipe with the 4 spike cap, fits down into that. Part of this is broken off into the bigger pipe. Somehow I have to get that out. I then want to get a piece of the same size, 2ft down and 2ft above ground and cement it. I'd like to then get the same size as the pipe that is in the ground, and cement that. I could then drop the final clothes pole into that and have cement and double piping up to about 4ft and make it more durable and memorable than the one he destroyed by driving 5 feet onto my driveway and breaking it for me. Wife says that hang dry is faster, and is obviously cheaper; so I need a very durable solution. Wife wants to wimp and drag a solitary standing unit in and out every day. Not good enough for me. Thoughts, advice, help? Thanks [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
