Thanks, I just needed to hear somebody say it.
We're not in Bizarro World, and the power company doesn't own the air
above my head, and so forth.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]>
To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]>
Sent: 1/17/2017 1:35:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Adding poles - dumb question
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
