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The Final Result: Brand New Street Light Pole!
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The result of seven hours of labor. I added horizontal 4X4s for the 2" lag bolts. Top two bolts were 4" carriage bolts with screws instead of lags. The whole thing is 9ft tall from the underside of the horizontal portion of the mounting bracket and the ground. I'm very pleased with the result and it lights that portion of the yard well.
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Yeah that's true, I could just buy a long cord that spans the whole yard.
BTW, the little thing on the 1-1/4" EMT is a pressure-secured (water-tight I assume, although it doesn't really matter since I used UF cable) coupling since I cut the EMT too short lol. Well actually, I had installed the horizontal 4X4 in the shed a foot too high lol. I had drilled the holes from the inside so I wouldn't miss the 4X4 and then I put it all up and found that the EMT ended right at ground level instead of going a foot into the ground. So then I had to race back to Lowe's to buy that coupling (which was on sale for 22 cents BTW lol) and then race home. I still finished this in a day so I'm very happy.
@ Andy; Lead foot meaning speeding/driving 10-20MPH over the speed limit.