OT where to buy abuse resistant US flags

Apr 05, 2007 5 Replies

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Ignoramus1197 19 years ago

This is for my trailer. It is next to impossible to back up at night without flags in the back. I just do not see it. due to glare, camo colors etc.

What I want is to have US flags for the purpose of seeing my trailer.

I had some flags from a cheap supermarket store, that unfortunately did not survive the wind action of this trailer being driven on highway. So I want to find some other flags that are more seriously made. No magic, just thicker sticks, better fabric and better attachment method. I would say they would need to have a 3 ft tall stick and be perhaps 1x1.5 ft in size.

Any idea where I can buy such. I looked, there are soem very large flags out or just cheap small crap.

If not, perhaps there are some LED based blinking things made for this purpose.

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Rex 19 years ago

Check the truck stops or places that sell HD equipment. I see all manner of things sprouting from 18-wheeler mirror brackets.

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Larry Jaques 19 years ago

Using American flags as backup markers is disrespectful, sir.

Tack on some 5/8" square tubing and mount red LEDs as running lights on them, Ig. Mount them outside the box at each rear corner, making them high enough to see over your truck bed at the worst angle. Paint them the same color as the background of the camo, prolly olive drab.

-- The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. --Voltaire (1694-1778)

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Stupendous Man 19 years ago

Perhaps, but using them for display is not. I use an old magnetic CB antennea with a "76" ball on my low trailer when backing up so I can see when it's getting out of line. I commend Iggy for not using the cheap flags available. If you know they will not hold up and run them anyway, that's intentional desecration. It really bugs me to be riding thru a city and see flags laying on the freeway.

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clutch 19 years ago

Decals on aluminium plates swinging from rods?

Wes

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Roger Shoaf 19 years ago

I have yet to see any kind of fabric flag that will hold up to sustained highway speeds.

I would put a couple of bulbs on pipes sticking up and wire them so they illuminate when you are in reverse. Alternatively you could have them wired to the tail lamp circuit and keep them as clearance lamps.

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