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Links

Towns

• Franklin County
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Pictures

• The Electric Pole Shrine
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• David Dahle's Homepage
• OZPOLES
• Forgotten NY Lamp Posts (Tales of the T-poles)
• Syosset Scrapbook (Not a pole site, but it does happen to have poles in some of its pictures.)
• Telephone Pole Poetry
• Nikon D70 Gallery - telephone_pole
• Magnificent Views with High Voltage
• Andy Smith-Peterson Photographs Image #75
• Don's Utility Pole Pages

Creativity

• Paintings of Telephone Poles by Bruce Mitchell
• NEW Pole Number Fine Art Paintings by Suze Woolf
• The Stately Cedar

History

• A Slice of History
• Dating Old Photographs from Light Poles
• History of Public Service Company of Oklahoma

Companies

• Western Massachusetts Electric Company
• Verizon

Inspection and Treatment

• P & K Pole Products
• Osmose
• Permapost
• Ultrasonic Testing
• Asplundh Tree Expert Co.
• Poison Pole Report
• Guelph Utility Pole Company Limited
• The near-perfect utility pole
• Ultrasonic Testing of Wooden Utility Poles
• Preschem
• Pole Maintenance Company, LLC
• North American Wood Pole Council
What's in that pressure-treated wood?

Replacing

• 50-Year-Old Telephone Poles
• Old Telephone Poles
• Redundant telephone poles removed from Kosciuszko views

Reusing

• Sawing utility poles

Manufacturing

• McFarland Cascade
• Koppers Industries
• William C. Meredith Co., Inc.
• mereduc.com
• Western Red Cedar Pole Association
• Ace Pole Company
• Cobb Lumber Poles
• Trans Canada Group
• NationWide Utility Poles & Supply, Inc.
• Page and Hill

Safety

• Florida Power & Light and BellSouth
• Chapter 7: Utility Pole Investigations

Linemen

• Powerlineman.com
•  Northwest Lineman College

Insulators

• myinsulators.com (links to several pages here, although it is not just insulators)
• Hungarian Insulators Page
• Porcelain Insulators R=Infinity
• Insulator Page for Bill Winters
• Coble's Eclectica! - The Insulator Zone

Streetlights

• Jim's Street Lighting Home Page (eskimo.com)
• Jim's Street Lighting Home Page (jimslights.com)
• STREET LIGHTING EXTERNAL LINKS PAGE
• Forgotten NY Lamp Posts (Tales of the T-poles)
• Street-Light & Highways Site Photo Gallery
• Street-Light Nuts

Equipment and Parts

• Hughes Brothers Catalog

Nails and Tags

• DATE NAIL INFO
• nailhunter.com
• PREMAX - manufacturing utility pole markers, pole tags, and other marking systems
• RENAMED Almetek Industries Inc.

Reference

•  The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook - 11th Edition [amazon.com]
• The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook - 11th Edition [barnesandnoble.com]
• Utility Poles at Wikipedia
• Anatomy of a Utility Pole
• Construction Electrician Basic
• Utility Poles at annsgarden.com
• Ask Yahoo: What kinds of trees are used to make telephone poles?

Forums

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• The Lineman Forum

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