2018 - Volume #42, Issue #5, Page #30
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Flag Holder Swivels In The Wind
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“It’s designed to let the flag spin around in the lightest winds. It looks nice, and I always know which way the wind is blowing,” he says.
The stand uses a 4-ft. long, 1/2-in. dia. metal rod that’s driven about 2 ft. into the ground. Meiners drops a washer over the rod that falls to the ground to keep the rod from ever turning. Then he slips a 3-ft. long, 3/4-in. dia. pvc tube over the rod and onto the washer. It serves as a spacer and a base that allows the tube to rotate.
A 45-degree elbow is placed on top of the tube and supports a 14-in. long, 1-in. dia. tube fitted at the top with a “T” elbow, which supports another tube with an end cap at the bottom that supports the flag.
“I like how it looks and how it swivels - it doesn’t take much wind for the flag to rotate,” says Meiners. “The stand is in our front yard where a security light shines on it at night. I drilled holes in the end cap so that water can drain out, and also glued all the joints together to make them solid. I usually take the entire assembly down for the winter because I don’t want it getting beat up by the weather.”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dave Meiners, 1582 61st St., Edgerton, Minn. 56128 (ph 507 829-1215; davemeiners123@gmail.com).
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