Hi William,
Thank you for the feedback. We're glad to hear the pole is well made and meeting your expectations overall. We understand the bolt locking system may not be everyone's preference — it was designed that way to provide extra stability and security for your Purple Martin House, especially in windier conditions. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts, as it helps us continue to improve!
Kind regards,
Birds Choice Team
“The pole works fine, but the fit on the top section to the bottom of the plate is too loose. I have the C12 model, 12 room, and I had to use 3 nails around the pipe to make it fit tight inside the flange on the bird house. It needs a collar to take up the space to fit tighter.”
“This thing is nice, very sturdy and pretty easy to telescope up and down with a little help from another person.. Overall I would buy again for sure!”
“I adopted my Purple Martin house from my father-in-law. This was a project we worked on together during COVID. Understand my FIL...he was great at jury rigging everything. His (Our) first attempt was to use a 5/8" thin wall pipe, eighteen feet tall. Poor birds got seasick in a breeze because the house would sway back and forth.
When he passed, I moved the Marin House to our home, and I was going to do it right. I ordered the 12Ft Heavy Duty Pole and instead of burying it in cement, instead I used a half a whiskey barrel a couple of 2 x4's for alignment and buried the base in stone. I did this in case I ever wanted to move it.
I have two problems. First, the pole is trying to rotate because it's not cemented in. It doesn't rotate much, and I easily fix it once a month; that's not a problem.
Number two was the alignment of the pole. Where the sections go together, and you screw in the thumbscrew, it pushes the pole roughly 3/16" - 1/4" in the opposite direction. This caused the lower section to be slightly out of alignment. I fixed this by buying a washer and backed the thumb screw off, carefully slid the washer in opposite of the thumbscrew and re-tightened it. It’s perfectly aligned.
I highly recommend the product and Birds Choice.”
