Flagpole installation acrossMassachusetts

Flagpoles in Massachusetts

Colonial street frontage, college and hospital campuses, and open Atlantic water from Buzzards Bay out to Nantucket.

Wind here. Massachusetts is under 200 miles from the New York line to Provincetown, and the wind figure on Eder's map climbs the whole way east. The Berkshires — Williamstown, North Adams, Pittsfield — and the Pioneer Valley down to Springfield sit at 90 mph, the lowest band in the state. Worcester and Lowell are at 100, Boston, Cambridge and Quincy at 110, and the South Shore down to Plymouth and across to New Bedford at 120. Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket are the most exposed of all, and we read Eder's chart for the address out there. The state code also sets its own wind speed and a ground snow load for every city and town by name, and that listed figure is what an engineer checks when a permit is filed. So inland the pole is settled by ice, ground and historic review rather than by the wind number, and it is only from the South Shore outward that wind takes the decision back.

• The Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley — 90 mph on Eder's chart from Williamstown and North Adams down to Springfield. The lowest wind figures in Massachusetts. The snow does not come down with them, though — Williamstown is listed at 50 psf on the ground and North Adams at 60 — so this is where the money goes into hardware and halyard rather than wall.
• Worcester County and the Merrimack Valley — 100 mph through Worcester, Fitchburg and Lowell. A standard wall carries most of this ground. Snow is the heavy number instead: Fitchburg is listed at 60 psf, the deepest in the state. Lowell also reviews exterior work downtown before any other permit is issued, and that time is worth building into the programme.
• Greater Boston and the South Shore — 110 mph on Eder's map across Boston, Cambridge and Quincy, and 120 by Scituate, Marshfield and Plymouth. A heavier wall begins to earn its place here, and anything looking out at the harbour or the open bay takes an anodized finish with it for the salt.
• Buzzards Bay, the Cape and the islands — 120 mph at New Bedford on Eder's chart, and higher out on the Cape, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The hardest figures in the state, with salt on every side of them: heavy wall or Hurricane series, anodized finish, stainless fittings, and a hole dug wide for sand rather than deep for clay.

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