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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: frames to panes on February 21, 2008, 05:13:04 pm

Title: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 21, 2008, 05:13:04 pm

Had my Superlight at 35' today and really had a job to hold it in the wind, bending like a bannana before i could get it into place. I dread to think what a pole at 60' would be like in a gust.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Captain Scarlet on February 21, 2008, 05:16:14 pm

Super-lite 1 or 2? Ive had my sl2 at 40ft in heavy winds with abseloutely no flexing, Luke

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 21, 2008, 05:26:17 pm

2, must have been a strong gust, i was leaning forward with the pole going backwards, would have been easier to run it up the wall and add sections with hindsight. :)

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Jeff Brimble on February 21, 2008, 06:40:55 pm

I think they all "kite" .     -I like the termonology, pole roller is handy and you need to look where the crevices and corners are to stick it into when it does gust.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 21, 2008, 08:41:52 pm

Amazing the "pull" you get you would think it was pretty aerodynamic being round. Even had a job with keeping the trusty Reload steady at 15'

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Wayne Thomas on February 21, 2008, 10:03:16 pm

That's why I prefer a telescopic pole, because they are heavier.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: alanwilson on February 21, 2008, 10:44:52 pm

the fact they are round means they have the aerodynamic properties of a brick. 

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Adam Boss on February 22, 2008, 04:37:12 pm

should you be using it in the wind that we are having at the moment. H&S and all that ??

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 22, 2008, 04:43:43 pm

All depends how exposed you are, same thing happened again today - big gust before i got the pole to the skylight i wanted to clean. Just got to be careful.  :o

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 22, 2008, 04:44:35 pm

Quote from: Luke Johnson on February 21, 2008, 05:16:14 pm

Super-lite 1 or 2? Ive had my sl2 at 40ft in heavy winds with abseloutely no flexing, Luke

Luke, do you actually use you pole?

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Captain Scarlet on February 22, 2008, 04:59:36 pm

No I dont use it at all, I bought it to go on the mantle piece!!  :) Luke

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 22, 2008, 05:04:37 pm

Thought so, 'cos if yours doesn't bend at forty feet then Alex must have sent me the wrong pole.  :)

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Captain Scarlet on February 22, 2008, 05:10:41 pm

It doesnt bend (very small amount ) but the wind does pull it, Luke

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 22, 2008, 05:21:46 pm

So when you raise it from the ground at full stretch it doesn't bend  ???

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Captain Scarlet on February 22, 2008, 05:25:14 pm

At full length, yes. Not by very much though. Being horizontal and vertical is very different though, Luke

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Jeff Brimble on February 22, 2008, 06:24:50 pm

Took me 2 years to relalise they all bend and it wasnt till Luke lifted his S2 off the ground with me at the sharp end that I realised "oh my G.." Bannah  bend, they all do it but because your at the blunt end you dont realise it. They bend otherwise they would breaK.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 22, 2008, 06:54:29 pm

Thanks Jeff, i thought i was going mad! There was so much air pressure against my pole that i'm pretty sure a Maver (S1) would not have withstood it, it was all i could do to hang on without giving ground untill the gust past over. There were some telephone cables pretty near so there was no way i could go with it.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: Jeff Brimble on February 22, 2008, 07:08:00 pm

OK this is going to sound crazy but was just wondering if the vacuum pull in the open blunt end of the tube helps the kite effect and what would happen if you put a plug in it. - just a mad thought.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: stevekennedy on February 23, 2008, 06:36:56 pm

Makes no difference in my experience.

Tried using 66ft in a breeze. Totally impossible. Need to pick your day. Ended up using my ergolite as I had to get the job done.

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: matt on February 23, 2008, 07:04:46 pm

we can all tell that luke loves his pole

i think he might polish it fairly often  :P :P :P

Title: Re: Kiting
Post by: frames to panes on February 23, 2008, 10:30:03 pm

Perhaps that's why his is so stiff whereas mine isn't! Youth! ::)