Kelty Staff Pole

by Kelty

Product Description

DECENT FEATURES of the Kelty Staff Pole Lightweight aluminum Two-inch grommet tip for securely attaching tarps The SPECS Weight: 1 lb / 0.5 kg Length: 78" / 198 cm Pole Diameter: 16 mm Material: Aluminum

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B004K85TU4
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,979 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Light, strong, easy to modify, January 30, 2011

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Alan K. Fling (Eugene, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kelty Staff Pole (Misc.)

We bought these tarp poles to go with a Hillebrand UL10 overhead tarp. These poles are very strong once assembled, they pack up to a reasonable size, and they are fairly light for what they do.

However, be prepared for the fully assembled pole to be quite tall. I'm 6'2 and the top of the pole is over my head once fully assembled. Now I can understand that some people might want their tarp that high off the ground, but my personal feeling is that if you are trying to protect yourself from rain, there is also going to be wind, and when it's windy and rainy you don't want the peak of your tarp that high because it reduces the protective area of the tarp. So before I purchased the poles I sent and email to Kelty asking if it was possible to modify the staff pole and maybe reduce one segment, making the final assembled height closer to 5ft. Well, the responded and gave me a boiler plate answer informing me that it was not possible to remove the bottom segment in order to make it shorter.

Long story short, I ordered it anyway and it took me all of 5 minutes to figure out how to modify it (in a non-permanent way) so that bottom segment could be removed for something that is both lighter and more suited for our needs. And while Kelty's official line on this procedure might be "no, it cannot be done" and probably more importantly "we will no support it if you modify this product in any way" I personally thing the easily modifiable nature of this product and the way it is assembled is one of it's most positive traits.

4.0 out of 5 stars Works better than you would think., June 29, 2011

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bdwg - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Kelty Staff Pole (Sports)

I used two of these poles with one of the Kelty tarps, and I had little hope of two poles and a tarp actually staying up, or even being able to set it up by myself. Well, I was wrong. The poles worked out great, and weight very little for what they are. I had them tied down very tight any they did not bend. They even survived a HUGE windstorm. I would recommend them and would recommend even buying a third one for different tarp setups.

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