40 foot parking lot poles

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cowboyjwc

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Used a helicopter to install some 60' ones (ball field lights). Price used to work out about the same, depending on how many times they had to move the crane.
 

hillbilly1

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We sub ours out, we have a subcontractor that's set up for it, has all the proper rigging, and is very fast. He has a digger/derrick truck, does the holes, pours the concrete
 

hillbilly1

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North Georgia mountains
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Used a helicopter to install some 60' ones (ball field lights). Price used to work out about the same, depending on how many times they had to move the crane.

Many years ago I did one parking lot in Raliegh,NC, where we subbed it to another electrical contractor who owned their own crane, it was big enough that he set up in the middle of the parking lot, and set all of the poles without moving!
 

Strife

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It depends,
Fiber glass poles? Steel poles? Concrete poles?
Direct burial? on bases?
Obviously direct burial requires an auger, a lot of auger machines come with a trolley to lift the poles and put them in. All fiber glass and most concrete would work with that.
However, I would shop around for a company that does that a lot. I always sub my pole installations. $350.00 or so for a direct burial 30-40 feet concrete pole.

What do you guys use to install 40 light poles. Crane?
 

kwired

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What do you guys use to install 40 light poles. Crane?

If not a crane or helicopter, the only other thing that comes to mind is a bunch of cheap labor, big pile of lumber, and a lot of rope -- let them figure out how they are going to erect them, suprisingly they will probably find a way;)

Large tele-handler may work, but a crane will be easier.
 
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