JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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simon wrote:

I'm looking for info on boathooks.. I've no experience of sailing /
boating
at all - hence that's why I'm in here asking.

I'm looking for a really long - ideally telescopic boat hook.
The purpose for which I want it is related to work - At the site where I
work we have a really deep pit for the surface water outfall. In an
attempt
to stop people needing to go into the pit I'd like to be able to reach
into
the pit - using something like a telescopic boat hook - to retrieve any
debris (EG: plastic bags etc.) that blow into it.
The pit is about 10 metres deep

Can anyone point me in the direction of a UK based supplier of anything
that
might meet my needs...?

Thanks in anticipation..
Simon.

www.srsteel.co.uk
http://www.srsteel.co.uk/Panorama
http://www.srsteel.co.uk/landscape
http://www.srsteel.co.uk/Peru

Look for a painting pole. I got one at Home Depot that extends about 25
feet, or 7.62 meters.



Also, snow rakes, for dragging snow off high roofs. Looks like a snow shovel
on a VERY long pole. Not telescopic, but they usually snap together with a
ball-in-hole arrangement, like the tubes on vacuum cleaners. Remove the snow
shovel thing and install something more appropriate.


I have one of those...aluminum tubes are a bit light, but if you're
snapping 6 or 7 together, I guess that's a good thing.