One thing to think about, Denob.

Last year I went to pole beans after years of doing the bush beans.
I find the poles are later to produce then the bush beans I had planted.
In my area, where we have been having a surprising late killer frost and then real early killer frost the last 3 years or so.

I also planted bush last year as well and had lots on them and pretty well all harvested and into the freezer/dried, before the poles were close to ready.
Then the frost came and so no poles beans at all. 🙁
I am going back to mainly bush beans.

Now not to say you can not do poles just have to take into consideration the length of time you have for growing.

Had the pole beans made it thru or were quicker to produce, I think I would have had a good supply on them.

Please don't go on this, as its just a guesstamation. But from what I seen I should have at least doubled the beans on one pole plants comparing it to one bush bean plant.
According to all the flowers it had on it when struck down.

Good luck! 🙂

I tend to plant pole beans mainly on fence lines, and my go to bean is the old fashion scarlet runner,its such a pretty plant, you can pick the beans on early crops but I have also enjoyed letting them go and using them as dried beans as well.

I agree with oldtimegardener (which happens alot) I do early bush beans, late bush beans and then I do pole beans, now maybe I am doing it wrong, I don't have a issue with getting the crop in but I don't find the pole beans I grow to be either a good canning bean or a good freezer bean, it works well for fresh, and dried but I count on my bush beans types for canning and or freezing as well as being ready weeks plus for eating..

As for amounts, I can't give a better view on it either, I find it depends on the year and the weather/water/summer heat or time of year planting on which outproduce each other, one year my pole beans outproduced my bush beans by 3 to 1 but I have had years they are even and had a year where the bush outside the pole by 2 to 1, still don't know why I didn't get pole beans much at all that fall..

I think you will have to plant and see what happens for your garden and zone..

Well, green & wax beans are a staple for my storage, so I think I will still plant the typical bush types and try some pole beans to see what happens.
I don't want to switch out completely and have a complete failure on the crop.
As pole beans are typical climbers I wonder how they would do along a 4 foot chicken wire fence.
It's pretty shady there so probably not that well...
Maybe I'll go with some pole varieties mixed in with some decorative corn and gourds...kind of an experimental section that won't affect my total crops if I get poor yields.
I'm also looking forward to seeing what that bag of manure Farmgal gave me does for the garden too!

Chicken wire is not all that strong as it used to be and the beans are heavy.
If you use it make sure you have lots of stakes holding it up.

What I did last year was make a tripod structure out of small tree poles but used 4 poles instead of 3, tied at the top with garden string to hold it all together. The string allowed you to set the legs easy enough to were you wanted it to be as it would give a little. Then ran garden string around the whole works as a climbing aid.
They climbed on that very well and no wind knocked it over.
Then I planted inside the tripod, it worked very well.

Then I planted inside the tripod, it worked very well.

Wouldn't that be a QuadPod... 😆

Then I planted inside the tripod, it worked very well.

Wouldn't that be a QuadPod... 😆

😆 Your are absolutely right!

In the past, I have said to some others and got a blank look....so I said, tripod ...seemed to click with them.
Now in the habit of saying TRI instead of QUAD. Hey what can I say..old habits die hard.

Have a good day! 🙂

I will be a little biased because I'm used to picking fresh pole beans off a stunning giant plant in my grandmas garden and enjoying them fresh and cooked. Nothing compares to childhood memories. 🙂
I like the bush beans too and I was surprised at how many such a little plant yielded.
Here are some decent facts on yield from: "Vegetable Gardening for Dummies"

CROP--------------SEED/PLANTS per 100ft row-----Spacing between rows (")-----Spacing between plants (")-----Avg. yield per 10 ft row
Beans, snap (bush)-----------1/2 lb---------------------------- 24-36" -------------------------3-4"----------------------------12 lbs
RowBeans, snap (pole)------1/2 lb-----------------------------36-48"------------------------- 4-6"----------------------------15 lbs
Beans, lima (bush)-----------1/2 lb-----------------------------30-36" ------------------------ 3-4"------------------------------2.5 lbs shelled
Beans, lima (pole)---------- 1/4 lb------------------------------36-48" -----------------------12-18"----------------------------5 lbs shelled

Sorry about all the lines but I couldn't get my table to stay right.
I don't know if that will help in classifying the type of beans you were hoping to plant but at least it gives a rough estimate I hope.