This is terrible. The pole needs to be able to move back and forth to accommodate different fulcrum points with relationship to differing weights. See video a

This is terrible. The pole needs to be able to move back and forth to accommodate different fulcrum points with relationship to differing weights. See video at 1:20 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWAO3ZhD8_Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWAO3ZhD8_Q Plus, the flat dual pole method allows for some spring in the pole so that it doesn't weigh down the carrier with each step. I'm glad that this was posted by OP. We need to be able to discuss design failures like this, instead of just down voting them. I think all this could have been avoided if the design firm had been forced to use a pole for all their carrying needs for a week, or even a month, out in the field. The first two things that they would have discovered is the beauty of moving the fulcrum point and the fact that it's nice for a pole to have some bounce to it. Additionally, the pictures of them trying on the poles, in their corporate meeting rooms, gave me the absolute creeps, smacking of entitled ignorance, to both the problem and the solution. God I hope we aren't backlashing and heading back to an age of internationalism with regards to design, just because we became such relativists in post modernism that we thought that no single solution could be better than another. Arrgh.