In the Breeze 3681 — 22-Foot Heavy Duty Telescoping Pole — Outdoor Fabric Decor Pole, Easy Assembly

I bought a 22ft in the breeze telescoping pole three years ago thru Amazon, Nov/ 2020. I live in Las Vegas where we have plenty of wind with gusts up 35 mph and higher, my poles take a beating. The only weakness on the 22 footer was the swivel eyelet on top after three years spinning and torque it finally gave way. I tracked down Lisa at in the breeze customer service, she listened to my story and assured me that she would take care of it, reaffirmed to me that there are good people and a few wholesalers that stand behind their products. A few days later a new top section of the pole with a new swivel eyelet arrived, good now for at least another 3 years. Thank you Lisa.

Don’t twist too tight

I ordered the 16 ft pole for two purposes. First to fly a flag on the fourth of July, second to support a possible assortment of amatuer radio antennas for temporary mobile use. To set the pole in the ground I used a "cork screw" type umbrella holder. That gave me a firm foundation. I went large at first. I Attatched a 5 by 9.5 ft flag. The pole held the flag with a bow in the top 3/8 inch section, the top section is solid fiberglass. The top section bent much like a fishing rod with fighting fish hooked. The lower, thicker section hardly flexed. A slight breeze did not damage the pole. I tried to add guy rope, but the rope would have to be attached to the top rod inthe middle of the flag, no good. Next I mounted a 3 by 5 ft flag. Besides the size this was a much lighter nylon woven flag than the first. The light breezes (under 5 mph) cause a slight flex in the upper section, but that is expected. I am guessing, but I would expect this to hold up fine in winds up to 15 mph for this size flag.Now for the antennas. Attaching the ends of a dipole to the eyelet on the top segment caused the top segment to bow in toward the feed point. 66 feet of 12 gauge wire held ok, 123 feet is doubtful. using it to support the center balun is fine except that the weight would cause the top segment to flex somel. The top segment is too narrow to clamp a vertical antenna for two meters to (or a buddy pole type dipole). You can use a lower segment without raising the top segment, but you lose four feet of height with each segment you don't use.The segments are held in place by you jamming the segments as you extend them. The segments are tapered at the ends. You can add a hose clamp to the joint, but the tube is not notched to allow a clamp to compress the material. Time and use will lessen the friction on these grips. But I am guessing they will be good for a 3 or 4 pound vertical load for many uses.For storage the pole collapses into itself with two rubber caps that allow it to store inside itself. Overall lenght is four ft. It is sold in a fabric bag, that allows you to hang it on a peg. Nice product so long as you know its' limits.

I used this pole on my pontoon boat to fly a light weight flag and it work great. I read a lot of reviews of people bitching about it not being heavy duty enough for their heavier flags or that it didn't accommodate a second mounting point for a flag. I even read where someone tried to use 4 of them for an awning. Just shows that most people didn't read all the info on it. They are primarily meant for wind socks not flags. You can fly up to a 3 x 5 flag with no problems if it a light weight material though. If it's a flag such as a US Flag made of heavy material and sewn symbols it's just going to be too heavy for a flag pole meant to sway and flex in the wind. As far as the second grommet on the flag goes, you just need to zip tie or use a banded strap with a carabenaer. I used 1 1/2" PVC Pipe cap to set the base of the pole in and and a 2 hole strap to support it to the ski pole. Its a great pole if used in the right manner. If your not mechanically inclined you might want to get help from.soneone who is. Either way I have driven my boat up to 28 mph with it fully extended and alas, no problems yet.

Very reliable and comfortable pole. Easy keep the big mid-weight 1 by 2 meters flag during the rally, fully raised and waiving. Recommended!

The design of these is quite clever...but turned out to be not at all functional for our needed purpose. The poles telescope out and as you pull, the ends are roughed up, so that as you pull you twist slightly and they STICK TIGHT.My impression of this product is that it is intended to go in the ground and be used outside. If that is what you need it for, it should be excellent. Especially if you're going to just fly lightweight nylon flags, etc...A Note to those considering using them to vary heights in a set base:We were hoping to use them to vary the heights of banners we had painted for Lent/Easter for our church. We had TWO issues with these poles, which might have been far more OPERATOR ERROR than product quality, simply because of the design created for our intended use. I used flanges secured to plywood, with PVC pipe screwed into the flange and a rubber "coupler" which was tight around the pole itself. The issue we had was that we struggled to keep the poles from tipping, even though the base of the pole was tightly secured IN the pipe and flange.The biggest problem was that if you only telescope 2-3 sections, there was no real way for us to keep the pipes from swiveling around inside each other (Inside the ones still anchored in the base inside the flange). I tried shimming...but when you do this you run the risk of scraping the paint on the sections not telescoped.

It's a telescoping plexiglass pole designed for short-term improvised set-ups, and it does the job fairly inexpensively. I could see using this in advertising, or parades or parties. I stretched the envelope by trying it to support a 20-pound amateur radio antenna. It works and I've even left it outside over several days without incident, BUT - the pole is very flexible, and you need to carefully twist each extension in place to keep it from collapsing. Also, you need a good solid base to keep the pole from working it's way out of stanchions and falling over. Besides these two user caveats it has been a good, inexpensive, lightweight flag pole/antenna mast. Don't try use it to mount a Ham stick dipole at full-extension, where it'll be too flexy.

Three of five poles snapped at the top segment while standing absolutely still. Three yards of light silk with a bamboo support (1/2" dia.) was all that was being supported. This was indoors, no breeze.

Pretty light flag pole good for a small banner

Three problems with this pole is that 1. it must be fully extended to function so if needed for shorter height it don't stay because each tube is tapered to fit tight in each other, 2 only one ring on top with nothing else to attach flag to. It needs an additional accessory to complete flag attachment, 3. no means or options of a mounting kit attach it to something like an RV ladder for example.Not happy with this pole, may return it for something more functional.

sent back, wasn't what we were looking for.

This flag pole works perfectly to fly a 2x4 flag in the light to moderate winds. I haven’t tried it in anything stronger than that, and I doubt I would. I use it while we’re camping, and it’s perfect for that. I just used a large key ring to hold the bottom of the flag to the pole