I've noticed that many wooden electric poles here have recently beenupdated with a steel channel, double u shaped, about ten inches wide,extending from some level in the ground up the side of the pole toabout 5 ft high. It's stamped out of one piece, but if you imaginetwo pieces of steel channel about 5" wide laid side by side, vertically along the pole, it's like that. They are held in place by two heavy metal bandsthat go around the pole. The top has a sheet metal cover over it, nailedin place. They had crews here last summer digging around the poles.I also noticed that the poles have new steel screw plugs, about 3/4",maybe two feet above ground level. There is no wire or anything runninginto or out of it. I can't figure out what this isall about, but I'm wondering did they do test boring to find out whichpoles have termites or something? And the mysterious channels could bea delivery vehicle for insecticide, where they put stuff in the channelat the top and it dispenses? Whatever it is, maybe one pole out ofsix or so has it added. I thought it might be to add some kind ofcrash protection, but then some are on the side facing the directionof traffic, others are on the opposite side and it doesn't seem likelythat it would really do anything for that. Anyone see similar or have ideas?

On Sat, 2 May 2020 14:22:01 +0100, David_B

What are these steel channels I see attached to electric poles?

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gfretwell 6 years ago

I already posted this but it is the repair they did to the pole on the corner down the street from me

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