Wife and I were out for a drive a couple of days back, and coming back from Lake City on US 63 we came across a stretch of road where the power poles were glue-lams instead of your standard creosoted logs. I’ve seen glue-lam power poles before in a few special situations, but these were being used where ordinary poles would have sufficed.
Is anyone else seeing this? I’m guessing that it’s getting harder to find logs of the necessary dimension (these poles were the extra long ones that are used to carry the usual cross arms plus three higher voltage lines above the cross).
Interestingly, I observed that these poles were often used un-guyed, in situations (curves, etc) where regular poles would have required guy wires.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
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I first noticed these a year or so ago in Ohio on route 8--land of incessant road construction
the ones I saw-were VERY tall-much taller than normal
Stephen
After the initial bunch (where I'm guessing the line had been recently rerouted or reworked for some reason) the line continued with regular poles, except that a few had been replaced here and there with the glue-lams. Apparently just normal replacement of failing poles.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith