re: Snow Tease for Baton Rouge (Saturday) UPDATE (1/20)

I built a mount in my back yard. Two 8’ 4x4’s anchored in concrete about a foot and a half and about 3.5” apart. Then I bought some top rails for a chain link fence for the poles. I mounted a wider pole to a 2x4 with a bunch of conduit clamps and some of those (I forget what they’re called) metal tie wraps that you basically screw tight, then a smaller diameter pole to that one (stuck it inside the wider one about two feet and drilled a hole through both poles to bolt them together real well). I then added a slightly wider short pole over all of that and bolted that too for added support. I repeated that with another 10’ pole at the top.

After that, I mounted the anemometer to the top of it with the wire wrapped around the pole going down to connect to the station.

Then I added another 2x4 to the opposite side of the bottom part to sandwich the bottom part between two 2x4’s and then used four more metal tie wrap things to secure that contraption tightly together to prevent the pole from ever falling through the sides of the 2x4’s in high winds.

Finally, I secured the pole (and 2x4 set up) to between the two 4x4’s via a heavy duty hinge at the bottom so I can just lay the whole thing down to access the anemometer) and raised it all up. One up, I screwed it into the 4x4’s at angles with 4” screws. When it’s time to access it, I just unscrew and lay it down. It didn’t budge during hurricane Ida.

Hopefully this all makes sense. In total it’s only about 22’ high when it should be 33’ high but I was afraid of going higher and making it too top heavy. The station itself is mounted to all of this at almost 6’ above the ground for accurate temperature readings.