Design and Construction of Flagpoles

This stainless steel tapered pole is 2.6m (8 ft 6 in) wide at the bottom and 0.75 m (2 ft 5 in) at the top. The total weight of this pole is 135 tonnes without the flag. The individual pieces of this 11-piece pole were fabricated in Dubai, UAE, and shipped to Ashgabad by trucks. A 500-tonne crane was then used to join them together4. At 133m, the

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