On its face, that strategy may seem logical — after all, wood does burn. But the reality is the material used for poles and crossarms has little to do with whether those structures will survive a ...

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Unloading Wood Poles. Poles are shipped on railroad flatcars (Fig. 11.1) or flatbed semi-truck trailers. Great care must be exercised while unloading poles from the flatcar to avoid any possibility of ...

Plus, a lot of the more than 120 million wood poles standing in the U.S. need to be replaced. Many are decades older than ...

Neil Friesen steps over a heap of wooden poles in his front yard and disappears behind a motorized saw taller than himself.

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