What do you use for poles?

[Highlandsbrew]

here is a picture of my hop pole for this year, I buried 2 4x4 posts side by side to be able to pivot the main post down, it is 16' long and I can easily move it up and down, I should have made the 2 base posts higher so I could have got the main post higher.

 

[jimba009]

freakin beautiful man!

 

[GearBeer]

Highlandsbrew,

That setup is slick. I'm definitely going that route, if you don't mind me brazenly stealing your idea.

I was originally worried about the treated lumber, but it looks like it's all OK nowadays.

What size bolts are you using? Which direction does it fold down relative to the trellis?

 

[Beerbeque]

A flagpole works. I made something like a flagpole with pieces of tubing from a canvas truck cover. I then attached strings in a treelike fashion.

 

[GearBeer]

That was my original plan, but my ideas expanded to fit my back yard. :rockin: