Flagpole installation inAberdeen, SD

Flagpoles in Aberdeen

The trading and processing centre of the northeast, a rail hub with a university, a regional hospital and grain moving through it in every direction. We cover Aberdeen and the Brown County area, including the South Main commercial blocks, the Brown County courthouse, Northern State University, the Avera St. Luke's campus, Wylie Park and Storybook Land, the Agtegra and 3M frontage and the James River valley east of town.

Wind here. Aberdeen sits in a flat, slow-draining and unsheltered area, which works out to roughly 110 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Aberdeen sits on the bed of a glacial lake, and level is most of the story. Step off the older residential streets and the wind arrives with nothing in its way, which is why exposure rather than the mapped figure sets the wall thickness in Brown County. The rail lines that made the Hub City still cross it, and the frontage along them — the Agtegra elevators, the 3M plant, the co-op yards — stands fully in the open. Then there is what the winter does to hardware. Nobody is walking out to an elevator yard or a farm site in a January wind to free a frozen pulley or bring a flag down, so the specification has to survive being left alone: stainless rather than plated, and a halyard that runs up inside the shaft behind a locked door.

Most of the people who call us from Aberdeen are university and school buildings, hospitals and medical offices, grain co-ops and elevators, manufacturers, municipal and county facilities, banks, churches and farms.