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   While Mike is busy turning out new wooden flagpoles, literally, let's look at the June 1998 issue of "This Old House" magazine.
   Beginning on page 74, a four page article illustrates a beautiful 20 foot flagpole installation, step-by-step.
   Mike and Norm Abram, the magazine's master carpenter, prepared the site, assembled the pole, dug the hole and poured the cement.
   The location is Paddison Farm in Norwalk, California, just fifteen miles from the Pacific coast. The story is written by Victoria Rowan. These pictures and caption material are reprinted from the same article.

	"Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys" pages 74 through 77. In the double-page opening photo, Norm holds the pole base as Mike hoists the wooden pole upright, prior to tightening the final mounting bolt.
Norm digs a 2 foot diameter hole, 24 inches deep. The soil drains well and won't need crushed rock at the bottom. Your soil conditions may require more concrete. This site required eight bags of concrete mix. We used a level to check the bracket's vertical alignment.
	While the concrete cured, we prepared the pole. The halyard cleat is centered on the pole's halyard side.
The double sheave was set into a notch on the top of the pole so it could line up with a cleat on the base. Before screwing on the truck (flanged top) the inside and outside were coated with silicone caulking for a watertight seal. The filial, a gold sphere, fits on a threaded hole in the truck center.
	Two 9/16 inch holes were drilled into the flagpole from either side. These holes correspond with the two 1/2 inch boltholes that were drilled in the bracket. Then we hinged the pole up and put in the bottom bolt. While Mike holds the level to check plumb, Norm tightens the locking bolts. Mike says, "it looks straight to me!"

Voila! The flag is raised for another happy home owner.

"The wood flagpole is an American Tradition."