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Awesome and thank you!!!

Very informative. Thank you. The use of wedges answers my question about making the flagpole perpendicular. I'll be installing mine now. A Union Flag in my case as I'm in the United Kingdom.

I don't know what part of the USA you are in, but I'm just checking in today, 24 AUG 2024, to see how your flagpole survived through it's first year. Hand Salute..... (Can you believe it, yt has no American Flag emoji, but look what they offer instead)

Hi! Where did you get this pole from? Great video. I would suggest to mix the concrete with water first before pouring it into hole though.

Dan, are you able to email us. Interested in offering you a partnership.

This was an awesome tutorial to solving this sort of problem. Beginning to end awesomeness

What’s the diameter of the pole?

For the construction of this piece, it seems that it would be easier to just completely cut out the outline, then glue another piece of flat foam to the bottom. Much faster! And you get an exactly smooth bottom. 😆

Isn't that location the easement for a crosswalk..?

Wouldn't it make more sense to premix the concrete and then pour it? That method you have no idea if it's too wet or too dry. Either way it weakens the concrete. I never agree with this way of doing it. I use to test concrete strengths and witnessed how too wet or too dry concrete is effected.

Are you in the easement of the city?

It's not level. Level is horizontal. It's plumb vertical is plumb . Everyone keeps says level the pole. You really should not level a pole lol. Just me pet peeve I guess.

How deep are your passes on the foam and what was your speed

Couple things: it seems you didn’t use much concrete at all. I have a 30’ fiberglass flagpole and used 15 80 lb bags. Please update after a year on how this base has held up. Second, you want to remove the shims and use sand where they were. They’ll rot eventually. Lastly, I thought Atlantic Fiberglass flagpoles went out of business? I haven’t seen this style with the onion top in a while.

Great Job !!

Great, all i need is $10,000 worth of equipment to make a $20 piece of foam. Jez

Might as well carve your foam with the lightning from thors hammer!

Do you have a Black Box Hurricane Vacuum for you vacuum hold down? Thank you for the video.

Wouldn’t it be easier to get a distinctive color background, (think green screen) lay tool on background, take picture from above, and use photoshop to remove the tool from the background, maybe add a ruler next to it to ensure you have scale?

Not sure about big box stores… I got mine at a flag pole store near my house, Kempton Flags

You know how much time i will spend? like eternity. If i pay you will you make me?

Thank you for the video! Did you order the fiberglass pole custom or can I find that at any box box store?

The pockets you do have flat bottom. Any chance you would know how to do 3d shape for the bottom ?

That. That was beautiful

That's awesome

Great video, the cutouts looked like aliens carrying cases.

This is for a computer guy not the average tool guy for sure. Like the end product but sure lots of steps getting there…

You can save a whole lot of time, effort and the need for a CNC router by marking your tool outlines directly onto a layer of painters tape over the top of your foam. Seeing as you're going to the trouble of tracing every single tool outline anyway. Once you have your outline, take an X-acto knife or better still a surgical scalpel, and cut the silhouette of the tool out, so you're left with a dark shape vs. light tape colour for contrast. Then just take a trim router with a compression bit chucked and carve out the inside of each tool outline. If you're making multiple cuts of the same profile, sure it's worth the time to digitize the outline into a toolpath, otherwise there's really not much need.

Have you scanned one with your phone and it’s built in scanner?

Great video, I have a question which is the blade you used on your saw to cut the foam? I am trying to locate the type of blade to cut it. Thanks.

Oh goodness, I wish I saw this yesterday… I was measuring with a ruler and trying to make my model from that (I got about 70%)… your method is MUCH better… I’m going to try your way…

Very nicely done. I learned a lot, but mostly in the F360 manufacturing section. Cheers, JAYTEE

Awesome video. Thanks!

I love that there are people like you in the world who are focused and dedicated to organization. It says a lot about you! I'm very much like that in spirit, alas... I don't have the bandwidth to pull this off :) Will have to find some simpler route! Thanks for making this video and best of luck to you

Next time at the end put the tools in it ;) Otherwise great video, thank you.

This is my favorite video. Keep going!

Thank you for this video. I had watched a half-dozen different videos on foam cutting, but no one provided the detail about the toolpath except you. I was able to apply what you showed here to machine out some cheap polyethylene foam for a holder for my bench dogs. I'm waiting on some better Kaizen foam to arrive, so I can re-run the job on that.

wow! excellent!!

Where can I get the same close/cross cell foam he uses?

Cool tutorial. Only missed the part where I could see that the tools actually fit.

I like it so much but the software's part a little bit long , overall thanks

Thanks for the tutorial. I really wanted to see the end result, with the Ryobi tools applied to the foam, but I can't complain, you shared lots of information.

This is awesome!! #baja🛺

😎👌🏼

Thanks so much for this. I'm going to use your process to make foam cutouts for my microphones!

Where are the lights fro

I would love to get the how to on this. I am not so digital or electronic but love the animatronics and such. Very Nice!

That's awesome! I did kind of a low tech version of this one year where I hid inside and made the skeleton move with fishing line. Maybe I should try automating the scares next year...

I love this- you’re so comfortable in front of the camera- and so talented!

Great job, Dan!! Loved seeing the kids’ reactions. 💀