Sounds nuts to me. If they want to attach power to your pole they will have to pay for the upgrade. That is what they will do to you if you want to attach and the pole is not testing good.
From: Adam Moffett Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:27 AM To: Animal Farm Subject: [AFMUG] Adding poles - dumb question I want to run fiber down a road where there's a gap in the existing poles. The power company feeds the road from opposite directions, which I can't do. We looked at underground vs adding our own poles in the gap, and adding poles wins by a huge margin. We were going to do 30' poles because they're cheap and I don't need to carry a power line. However, the pole contractor I talked to believes that the power company has some kind of rights regarding aerial wires, and he thinks they could somehow compel us to install 50' poles so they could add electric onto them later. Is this guy a nut? It sounds unbelievable, but this guy has been installing poles for decades so he might be one to know. -Adam
