Posted by BarnyardEngineering on April 23, 2021 at 06:48:51 from (161.69.121.33):
In Reply to: Why metal poles? posted by Geo-TH,In on April 22, 2021 at 09:56:48:
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15 to 20 years? Most of the electric poles out here to the farm were put up by the original Rural Electrification Act of 1936. The holes were hand dug by a local family. A few were replaced when new houses were built on the road, and when one was accidentally bumped with a farm implement and was dangling from the wires on the next pass.
It was only in the last two years, late 2019 into 2020, that the poles were finally replaced, again by government money. This time Cuomo's Rural High Speed Internet project. The wires had to be raised to accommodate the fiber optic line for Internet.
They didn't replace all the poles, and the wires are still the original 1940 wires.
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