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Old Tue Oct 16, 2012, 01:12am
Robert Goodman Robert Goodman is offline
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Originally Posted by Welpe View Post
I am not an engineer and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn last night but I would think raising the upright height even further without widening them would lead to structural stability issues, especially when wind comes into play.
I saw that in 1983 at the USARFU national championships in Hartford, where the desires for precision and safety had combined to produce very tall plastic uprights that bent quite a bit in the wind.
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