X-Received: by 2002:ad4:4f86:: with SMTP id em6mr25722094qvb.218.1588032410233; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:06:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a37:4f45:: with SMTP id d66mr24748329qkb.318.1588032409973; Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: ...!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.home.repair Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.58.238.148; posting-account=C1SVQAkAAACfJY63oQnKBve0H-yhg4CH NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.58.238.148 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <28741804-50fb-4af8-9068-83895676145e@googlegroups.com> Subject: What are these steel channels I see attached to electric poles? From: trader_4 Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:06:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Bytes: 2358 Lines: 21 I've noticed that many wooden electric poles here have recently been updated with a steel channel, double u shaped, about ten inches wide, extending from some level in the ground up the side of the pole to about 5 ft high. It's stamped out of one piece, but if you imagine two pieces of steel channel about 5" wide laid side by side, vertically along the pole, it's like that. They are held in place by two heavy metal bands that go around the pole. The top has a sheet metal cover over it, nailed in place. They had crews here last summer digging around the poles. I also noticed that the poles have new steel screw plugs, about 3/4", maybe two feet above ground level. There is no wire or anything running into or out of it. I can't figure out what this is all about, but I'm wondering did they do test boring to find out which poles have termites or something? And the mysterious channels could be a delivery vehicle for insecticide, where they put stuff in the channel at the top and it dispenses? Whatever it is, maybe one pole out of six or so has it added. I thought it might be to add some kind of crash protection, but then some are on the side facing the direction of traffic, others are on the opposite side and it doesn't seem likely that it would really do anything for that. Anyone see similar or have ideas?