Friday, December 2, 2011

How resilient are wooden telephone poles? A car hit a pole mid-block, several of the lines fell off of the?

poles, %26amp; their weight twisted (%26amp; bent?) the pole on our corner. I could see the twisting in the pole before they re-righted everything. Someone who was out there when it happened claims that they heard the pole *crack*. So . . . I am wondering just how much such a pole can go through --it is an old pole-- and still be strong enough to be used. (There are 4 high voltage wires, and 1 thick telephone cable, plus one thick cable TV cable lower down. Only one high voltage wire stayed up, along with a guy-wire.) The workmen were told these things, but decided to go ahead %26amp; keep that pole. They only removed the one that got hit.|||The poles they use are immensely strong for the relatively low weight they carry so I very much doubt that there is any risk of the remaining poles failing. The only that would have been weakened was the one that was actually impacted by the car.

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