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I have a job to do soon that is bothering me a little. The sign is easy enough, a 4x8 with letter tracks for 6" letters, and logo at the top. Thing is the customer, a local elementary school, wants the sign mounted on 4" steel posts. They also want the bottom of the sign no lower than 7 feet off the ground. The sign will be mounted close to the building itself, but I am still worried about wind causing a problem down the road. I had planned on cementing them in about 30" deep. And,the poles and angle iron will weigh quite a bit, and I am wondering how to get the thing up other than getting some volunteers to help. Help appreciated!
------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Signs&Grafix 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
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hey john, i use a local iron company for my iron posts signs. to make the installation a little easier for one man, why not dig the footings and set the iron posts in concrete separately from the sign cabinet or face.
design in such a way that you can weld what i call flanges to the top of the posts, then bolt the cabinet to the flanges after the concrete has set up. i hope this makes sense buddy. good luck,
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Mark is talking about "break-aways", which are required in Montana for any state, county, city or airport jobs. 7' to the bottom and 4' more up? 30" under the ground is NOT enough. With 11' to the top you need 4'buried WITH concrete footing. A break-away is much easier to handle as you can set the base posts and then easily tip up and bolt the base together. Just make DARNED sure of your on-center measurement..
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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we over came these problems by building the signs from aluminium for weight and in modular form using a hidden rivet system to hold rails on the back for strength the modules butt together and the rails clamp on to 4" water pipe set in conctrete if you have a look at some of your main roads signage they should use the same type of clamps very lite very strong easy to work with
------------------ Ian Wilson Signmaker Toowoomba City Council Cnr Anzac Ave & Stephen st Toowoomba Queensland Australia may all your toubles be little ones The man that never make a mistake never makes anything
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If you are close enough to the building, and there is a spot to hang a pulley, then you can pulley it up. The rope goes from the sign, up over the pulley, and back to your truck rack. Wrap the rope around the truck rack, as you pull up the sign, get the slack out at the truck rack. that lets you stop and leave the sign in the air without breaking your back. this method requires two thinking people who work together, or two strong backs and a work leader (you). We have hoisted up (and down) some pretty heavy signs with complete safety with this method.
------------------ Victor Georgiou Bob Loves Signs Inc Danville, CA email blssigns@pacbell.net
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