Ruth, I have one, had it for years found it cumbersome so don't use it, IMO not worth the money they want for them. I have been experimenting the last couple of years with lengths of conduit. My hubby is a wood turner so he makes me assorted tops to either plunk into the top of the conduit or collars to fit around the top, leaving the top open so I can stick an umbrella in the hole if I want to protect my beans from the weather. I even use the conduit as single poles, these I wrap a piece of jute around the pole for the vines to cling to. So easy to store when not in use.
Not having access to a woodturner shouldn't be a problem, even a cork with nails to hang strings from or, even pieces of 1" board, squares or circles, with a piece of dowel to fit in the top of the conduit would work as well. It's amazing what you can come up with when you start thinking outside the box.

Annette

Annette I would love to see a picture if you have one.
How do you attach the jute to the pole?
I have one long piece of conduit that I could experiment with.
Do you stick the end in the ground like a pole?

Ruth... I grew Bird Egg#3 on a single pole this way. I had a 10' piece of conduit with 2 feet pushed into the ground. Just above the ground we drilled a couple of holes and then again at the top of the pole just large enough to thread the jute through. Threaded a piece jute through the holes at the bottom winding it up the pole to the top, through the holes at the top and then back down the pole crisscross fashion and tied it off. Much easier to do before the pole is in the ground but I wasn't about to pull it out at this point. The best I can do as far as pics go is a closeup where you can see where the jute crisscrosses and a pic of how it looked later, as you can see it didn't take up much space. I could post a couple of pictures of the caps DH made for me if that would be of any help, I'm sure you could fashion something that would work in a similar way.

Annette

Thank you.
The pictures and details help.
I was thinking you'd have to glue the jute on.
I've been using bamboo poles without a lot of success.

ruthz,
My brother use bamboo with no problem.
He cut it & left the leave branches on & the butter beans covered it like at was chick wire.