Posted by bc on February 23, 2011 at 16:51:15 from (138.210.247.188):
Hi. The power company is replacing a high voltage transmission power line at the half section line. Going from a double pole to a single pole. They offered to let me have all the poles I wanted. They are 80' long and are 12" in diameter just above the ground. New poles are 80' long and 20" at base and 12" in diameter at the top.
I have a creek bottom down there I'd like to bridge. I was going to get some old sewer pipe but this may be an opportunity for a freebie.
The creek bottom actually splits into 3 gullies each about 5' across and 5' deep. Two of them are about 40' apart, then an open space, and then the third one. Total span is about a 100'. To long for one pole length so I'd have to double it. It is all basically level bottom land in there.
I't thinking of laying the poles lengthways in rows alternating thick and narrow ends making two of them end to end for 160'. Probably 12' wide or so for a tractor/combine and then cover them with dirt. The trucker unloading the new poles this afternoon is a former logger from the Mount St. Helens area and he said he built a lot of cord bridges after it erupted. He said to weave cable through the rows at each end and pull the cable tight and nail the cable ends down with railroad spikes and not to use cable clamps.
80' poles would also make some heavy duty rails for a 3 rail corral about 6' high if I could figure out how to do the support posts and such. These are old enough the creosote is gone.
Anyway I'm interested in any feed back you guys have for using these power poles. I suppose I'll take all they want to give. The contractor doesn't really want to haul them out. They are replacing about 25 miles worth. The contractor said he would lay them with his equipment. He probably won't delay his work so whatever he does will be a quick before they move on down the line. And I don't really want to spend a bunch of time with the chain saw either. I can have all the cross bucks but there probably aren't enough to make planks across that long of a bridge and probably more trouble than it would be worth.
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