Patent ID: 7739796
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: E04F,E04H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for mounting a hollow post about a pipe, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a lower mounting device having a pipe-receiving opening extending therethrough and a base defined outward from the pipe-receiving opening; (b) arranging the lower mounting device and the pipe such that the pipe is anchored to a ground surface in a fixed position and extends upwardly away therefrom through the pipe-receiving opening in the lower mounting device; (c) with the pipe anchored in the fixed position, sliding the lower mounting device axially along the pipe to select a height along the pipe at which the base is to be positioned to support the hollow post thereon, the height being selected from any of various heights along the pipe relative to the ground surface in order to establish a user-defined height at which the hollow post is to rest on the base; (d) fastening the lower mounting device directly to the pipe independently of any engagement of the lower mounting device with the ground surface from which the pipe projects to fix the base of the lower mounting device at the user-defined height; and (e) lowering the hollow post over the pipe to the lower mounting device fastened on the pipe until the hollow post is supported on the base of the lower mounting device outward from the pipe.