Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

I'm looking for a really long - ideally telescopic boat hook.


Go by a swimming pool company and get one of their wonderful telescopic
aluminum swimming pool handles for the leaf nets. Mine is about 8' long
telescoped in and 20' long telescoped out. It's so light you can hold it
out horizontal and it locks solid with the twist of the shaft, locking from
the inside. Tig weld or hoseclamp a hook on the end of it. Some of them
have threads in the end to screw the leaf basket to and I bet you could
screw a boathook into it there, too.

It's just about as long as you could ever hold out that far, but you can
telescope it out to whatever length is more comfortable, which makes it
even stronger.

Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

Larry wrote:
I'm looking for a really long - ideally telescopic boat hook.


Go by a swimming pool company and get one of their wonderful telescopic
aluminum swimming pool handles for the leaf nets. Mine is about 8' long
telescoped in and 20' long telescoped out.

Uh, they are two piece shafts. If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??

Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

"basskisser" wrote in news:1159469857.274448.151180
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Larry wrote:
I'm looking for a really long - ideally telescopic boat hook.


Go by a swimming pool company and get one of their wonderful telescopic
aluminum swimming pool handles for the leaf nets. Mine is about 8' long
telescoped in and 20' long telescoped out.

Uh, they are two piece shafts. If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??



Mine has 3 pieces....each telescopes into the other.

3 x 8 = 24, but the pieces would fall out....(c;



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There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

Larry wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in news:1159469857.274448.151180
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Larry wrote:

I'm looking for a really long - ideally telescopic boat hook.

Go by a swimming pool company and get one of their wonderful telescopic
aluminum swimming pool handles for the leaf nets. Mine is about 8' long
telescoped in and 20' long telescoped out.

Uh, they are two piece shafts. If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??




Mine has 3 pieces....each telescopes into the other.

3 x 8 = 24, but the pieces would fall out....(c;


This might do the trick...
http://www.reusablebags.com/store/sn...oles-p-35.html

Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

Larry wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in news:1159469857.274448.151180
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Larry wrote:
I'm looking for a really long - ideally telescopic boat hook.


Go by a swimming pool company and get one of their wonderful telescopic
aluminum swimming pool handles for the leaf nets. Mine is about 8' long
telescoped in and 20' long telescoped out.

Uh, they are two piece shafts. If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??



Mine has 3 pieces....each telescopes into the other.

3 x 8 = 24, but the pieces would fall out....(c;



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Cool, never seen a three piece on. Mine is only two.

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"basskisser" wrote in message

.... If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??

Three sections with 24" overlaps?
Four sections with 36" overlaps?

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John Gaquin wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message

.... If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??

Three sections with 24" overlaps?
Four sections with 36" overlaps?

Show me. The only one's I've seen (and own) are two sections. You
could, however take two of those, and alter them to MAKE four sections.

Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

"basskisser" wrote in message
.... If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??

Three sections with 24" overlaps?
Four sections with 36" overlaps?

Show me. The only one's I've seen (and own) are two sections. You
could, however take two of those, and alter them to MAKE four sections.

I have no idea if anyone makes them at all. You asked how a compressed
sectional pole could possibly be 20 feet when extended. I offered two
alternatives.

Looking for a really long boot hook - where to buy..?
 

John Gaquin wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
.... If it is only 8 feet long, how can it
possibly be 20' long when extended??

Three sections with 24" overlaps?
Four sections with 36" overlaps?

Show me. The only one's I've seen (and own) are two sections. You
could, however take two of those, and alter them to MAKE four sections.

I have no idea if anyone makes them at all. You asked how a compressed
sectional pole could possibly be 20 feet when extended. I offered two
alternatives.

The trouble with your scenario is that each pole in succesion is a
smaller diameter. The fitting that connects the two pieces is only for
one size. It will not work in reverse.