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480sparky said:
You mean you're not gonna claim this? :D
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Nope... I was working next door. ;) Finishing up a fire job, Electric heater, probably never cleaned in its life caught on fire. Fire Dept. used a chainsaw to cut the wall open, they missed the SEC's by inches, but they hit the dryer and a few other branch circuits.
 
For all the trouble they went to they should have just mounted it on the tree itself and saved money on the lumber. :grin:

Awesome install. :roll:
 
frizbeedog said:
For all the trouble they went to they should have just mounted it on the tree itself and saved money on the lumber. :grin:

Awesome install. :roll:
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Thats what I was thinking, when I first saw it I though it was just leaning against the tree. :roll:
 
abe72487 said:
I would not call rope use being classified as securely fastened.
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Doesn't look like it fell over, so it must be secure. The PoCo itself will use lumber or a steel plate to temp repair a traffic accident damaged pole and lash it to the broken pole with ratchet straps. I put this in the category of "dumb, but legal". Whether the PoCo will hook it up is another issue all together.
 
mdshunk said:
Doesn't look like it fell over, so it must be secure. The PoCo itself will use lumber or a steel plate to temp repair a traffic accident damaged pole and lash it to the broken pole with ratchet straps. I put this in the category of "dumb, but legal". Whether the PoCo will hook it up is another issue all together.
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Marc, I think who ever did this install did a cut and reconnect...
 
mdshunk said:
The PoCo itself will use lumber or a steel plate to temp repair a traffic accident damaged pole and lash it to the broken pole with ratchet straps.
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Our poco (AEP/PSO) won't do that. They park a pole truck with the crane thing and one of those grabber-clamping things on the end. The truck stays there until the new pole is set and all the wires are moved over, then they yank the old one out of the ground or cut it off at grade.
 
jerm said:
They park a pole truck with the crane thing and one of those grabber-clamping things on the end.
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Most people still call those a digger-derrick.

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mdshunk said:
Most people still call those a digger-derrick.
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To qoute, I think, you, "Have you asked most people?" :D

We just call them pole trucks. Got one at the shop, an '82 with 2,500 miles on it. (really, 2,500)
 
Marc said:
The PoCo itself will use lumber or a steel plate to temp repair a traffic accident damaged pole and lash it to the broken pole with ratchet straps.
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I should take a picture of the local main road, there is a mile or two of old poles lashed to new poles. In my area the power company owns the poles, they had to replace them, now all the wires are moved over except the phone company lines, they will get to it when they get to it. Sometimes it will stay this way for more then a year.
 
mdshunk said:
Most people still call those a digger-derrick.

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We called them line trucks in my shop. The parts are 1. Telescoping boom 2. Auger 3. Pinchers 4. Winch (although this one doesn't look like it has one). Ahh the memories...
 
jerm said:
. . . or cut it off at grade.
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I can't imagine that any electric utility would cut a pole off at grade level. Eventually the butt will rot and leave a hole, I wonder who would be liable when someone falls because of the hole? :rolleyes:

By the way, we call those "thingys" line trucks also. :)
 
iwire said:
I should take a picture of the local main road, there is a mile or two of old poles lashed to new poles. In my area the power company owns the poles, they had to replace them, now all the wires are moved over except the phone company lines, they will get to it when they get to it. Sometimes it will stay this way for more then a year.
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That must be in the "phone company code" :rolleyes: I see that all the time....
 
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