Show me your OS Composite tubes...

[TTX1]

This is what is being used to replace ye olde wood phone/power/utility pole in the USVI, post-hurricane.






I hesitate to wonder about the failure mode for a wound pole this size...

[ericpmoss]

I wonder if WoundUp made these. More importantly, I'd love to see a weight comparison.

[maunahaole]

Termite resistant.

[thollandpe]

Termite resistant.

And yet creosote-free. What kind of sorcery is this?

[maunahaole]

The one in my driveway that will fall at any moment is nearly creosote free, as the termites have eaten that and most of the wood. They come around periodically and inject it with epoxy. Composite!

[thollandpe]

The one in my driveway that will fall at any moment is nearly creosote free, as the termites have eaten that and most of the wood. They come around periodically and inject it with epoxy. Composite!

That's funny. On Wednesday I rode my bike to work, slowly. On climbing the second ridge, almost to work, painfully slowly, I began to notice that the utility poles had been dug out around their bases. Then I pass (slowly) a few trucks parked along the curb. Then I see two men with very small shovels, digging very carefully around the base of a pole. These holes are very neat and uniform, clearly there is a written specification involved.

A few poles later (I'm climbing slowly) I see a man with a clipboard and a hammer, striking the base of a pole with the claw of the hammer, where the pole had been previously underground. I assume he is the brains of the operation.

A few poles later (I'm climbing a little faster, almost to the top), the holes are filled in and there's a neat ring of fresh dirt around each pole.

TH