pole barns
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Saw some massive 33kva twin poles last year put in by WPD, they just dig rwo 5ft holes, and lots of steel bracing joining them...
- Location
- North Suffolk
If anyone wants to put up a proper pole barn have some about 40ft plus long.....
- Location
- N.Lincs
Don't panic @spin cycle - just dig some holes and drop your poles in and backfill with what you dug out.
Pole barns, Dutch barns - don't know who thought of 'em first, the Poles or the Dutch but we've got a vintage model. It came to us, second hand in the early '60s.................
.....not sure if the telegraph poles were 'new' (i.e. sourced from the GPO) then or wether they'd been holding it up at the previous place
We moved it in the early/mid 70's.............
.......pic taken tonight.
So the telegraph poles have done about 60 years of holding a shed up after doing their stint of holding wires up.
They look a bit weathered(so do I at a similar age) but they're as sound as a pound....
Pole barns, Dutch barns - don't know who thought of 'em first, the Poles or the Dutch but we've got a vintage model. It came to us, second hand in the early '60s.................
.....not sure if the telegraph poles were 'new' (i.e. sourced from the GPO) then or wether they'd been holding it up at the previous place
We moved it in the early/mid 70's.............
.......pic taken tonight.
So the telegraph poles have done about 60 years of holding a shed up after doing their stint of holding wires up.
They look a bit weathered(so do I at a similar age) but they're as sound as a pound....
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
do you wanna sell the tractor 
- Location
- N.Lincs
Sorry, sentimentally attacheddo you wanna sell the tractor
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
Sorry, sentimentally attached
i can see why she's lovely
....sorry BTW i'm a bit 'purchasing vulnerable' at mo...see diary thread
A lot of the old farm buildings around here were timber legs and I've never ever seen one with the legs 'blown out of the ground.They don't usually fasten sheets of tin to them to catch the wind though.
Mine are dug in 3'. They have been there 2 years or more so far without blowing over. They haven't got any tin fastened to them either.
I still park my trailer in the pole barn even though it is just 6 poles sticking up.
They either rotted off and keeled over or previous to that the tin roof blew off and of sides fell out.
I phoned up about one (single) with 11kv wires on it in one of our fields, as it was leaning at a crazy angle after long exposure to the sometimes quite 'strong swesterlies that prevail here, I was told that the helicopter checker wasn't concerned about it , they said that the wires would' hold it up '
They did change a eventually after several years but only because they were changing one on the same line that someone had 'clipped ' with the hedge trimmer
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
7910?Sorry, sentimentally attached
spin cycle
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- Location
- north norfolk
6710?
- Location
- N.Lincs
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Close!
- Location
- N.Lincs
Close, but no cigar
I phoned up about one (single) with 11kv wires on it in one of our fields, as it was leaning at a crazy angle after long exposure to the sometimes quite 'strong swesterlies that prevail here, I was told that the helicopter checker wasn't concerned about it , they said that the wires would' hold it up '
They did change a eventually after several years but only because they were changing one on the same line that someone had 'clipped ' with the hedge trimmer
Got a sequence of 3 like that here, the last in the series is really listing to starboard, possibly as a result of a "goose strike" on the wires, that bore a remarkable similarity to someone reversing into the pole, while feeding beet out of a telescopic loader bucket to cattle ...
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