WHY THE HI-POD "PUSH-UP & LOCK" SYSTEM BEATS THE CRANK SYSTEM

When your Endzone unit ABSOLUTELY,  POSITIVELY has to work you need HI-POD. Crank up Endzone units are elevated by a steel cable that strings through all the tubes. Over time friction works on the cable, weakening the threads until eventually the cable breaks. If your unit is elevated at the moment of cable breaking, gravity will pull your tubes and your camera to the ground. Your camera will not survive this fall.

HI-POD has taken a different approach. Our push-up and lock system has no moving parts. The tubes telescope and our collar mechanism squeezes the inner tube in position. These positive-lock squeeze collars don't fail.  They  use a standard bicycle seat camlock that is tried and true. But for added security each collar has an accessory safety pin for absolute security. When you elevate the tube to its maximum height a safety pin receiving hole is revealed. Simply insert the pin in the tube hole and there is no way the tube will slip.

If the CRANK SYSTEM cable breaks there is no way to use the system. You must send in the CRANK SYSTEM for repair. The HI-POD UNIT, on the other hand, uses camlocks that are available at bicycle shops all over the world. (In the worst case scenario where both your HI-POD camlock and safety pin are missing , you would only be missing one stage of our 6 stage endzone unit.- 25 ft instead of 31feet)

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