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(More customer reviews)We bought these tarp poles to go with a Hillebrand UL10 overhead tarp. These poles are very strong once assembled, they pack up to a reasonable size, and they are fairly light for what they do.
However, be prepared for the fully assembled pole to be quite tall. I'm 6'2 and the top of the pole is over my head once fully assembled. Now I can understand that some people might want their tarp that high off the ground, but my personal feeling is that if you are trying to protect yourself from rain, there is also going to be wind, and when it's windy and rainy you don't want the peak of your tarp that high because it reduces the protective area of the tarp. So before I purchased the poles I sent and email to Kelty asking if it was possible to modify the staff pole and maybe reduce one segment, making the final assembled height closer to 5ft. Well, the responded and gave me a boiler plate answer informing me that it was not possible to remove the bottom segment in order to make it shorter.
Long story short, I ordered it anyway and it took me all of 5 minutes to figure out how to modify it (in a non-permanent way) so that bottom segment could be removed for something that is both lighter and more suited for our needs. And while Kelty's official line on this procedure might be "no, it cannot be done" and probably more importantly "we will no support it if you modify this product in any way" I personally thing the easily modifiable nature of this product and the way it is assembled is one of it's most positive traits.
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DECENT FEATURES of the Kelty Staff Pole Lightweight aluminum Two-inch grommet tip for securely attaching tarps The SPECS Materials: Aluminum Weight: 1 lb / 0.5 kg Length: 78" / 198 cm Pole Diameter: 16 mm
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