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Re: Ten Foot Pole behind the castle wall

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Originally Posted by laurenmj330 View Post
We (4009) had it attached to our driver's station and it's legal since there is no hight limit on the driver's station.
The trick there is that your driver station is only allowed to be 14" deep (front to back), so now the pole is using up some of that valuable depth. If you try to stabilize the bottom of the pole by driving it into a bucket full of sand, for example, that takes up even more of the allowed depth; depending on how you mount your camera to the top, that may also use up more of the depth. If you aren't careful, you might eat up so much depth by doing this that you can't actually reach the velcro strip of the driver station shelf any more, and then your DS is vulnerable to being knocked off the shelf and onto the floor.

That was actually 862's original design for the CHAOS system, but it caused so many problems that we quickly switched to a shelf-mount strategy and never looked back!
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