Flagpole installation inGillette, WY

Flagpoles in Gillette

The supply and service town for the Powder River Basin, where the two largest coal mines in the country are, with an events complex, a college and a regional hospital sitting behind the energy business. We cover Gillette and the Campbell County area, including downtown along Gillette Avenue, the CAM-PLEX grounds and the Wyoming Center, Gillette College, Campbell County Memorial Hospital, the Rockpile Museum, South Douglas Highway and the Highway 59 and I-90 corridors.

Wind here. Gillette sits in an exposed Powder River Basin area, which works out to roughly 115 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. Gillette sets its criteria in the city code and designs to 115 mph. Step outside the city limits and you are under Campbell County's rules instead, so tell us whether the address is in town or in the county before we price a foundation, because it changes what has to be shown and to whom. The ground is the other Gillette problem. Bentonite clay runs under a great deal of the basin and it swells when it is wet and shrinks when it dries, which moves anything set shallow in it. So a footing here goes deeper and wider than the pole alone would ask for, and the concrete mix is specified rather than assumed.

Most of the people who call us from Gillette are mine and energy offices, equipment and service yards, the hospital and its clinics, college and school buildings, county facilities, banks, hotels, churches and veterans posts.