Gates on telegraph poles

[Rossymons]

Had a new pole sited in the yard a couple months which as it happens is a great to place to hang a gate off!

Is it a case of JFDI or have people been told off in the past for doing it?

 

[Exfarmer]

Had a new pole sited in the yard a couple months which as it happens is a great to place to hang a gate off!

Is it a case of JFDI or have people been told off in the past for doing it?

I think BT would have a fit

 

[David.]

The more militant electricity line maintenance crews used to even cut barbed wire fences off poles.
I'd weld a couple of hinges to some band clamps, so you don't actually damage the pole, and can easily be removed if anyone kicks up,

 

[matthew]

Serious question: why did you allow a pole in your yard??

 

[Rossymons]

Serious question: why did you allow a pole in your yard??

The old pole that was there has been replaced by this pole so the "pole" has always been there. But I'm changing the layout of the yard over the summer and this pole has the potential to be useful rather than just standing there.

 

[Rossymons]

I think BT would have a fit

I'll wait until the site has been reconnected then!

 

[box]

I personally wouldn't hesitate to do it, but I wouldn't be drilling into the pole. The above idea with the band clamps is the way to go, that way if some jumped-up, hi-vis wearing clipboard warrior gets their undies in a twist, you can remove it.

 

[B R C]

Leave the pole alone, it’s not exactly hard to chuck a second hand rsj in the ground is it?

 

[serf]

I think BT would have a fit

Best get it hung on there pronto then

 

[grainboy]

Think you find it’s not your property,
Plus any I’ve seen are leaning or rotten anyway,

 

[Dry Rot]

Pity the pole is now there because you might have had an argument for them to put in a gate post for you when they had their equipment on site to do the job. I am pretty sure there will be some Act of Parliament or other on the books to stop you even thinking about doing something to the pole now!

 

[Rossymons]

It's no bother really as I've got others put in over the next month or so anyway. But if I could have saved a job I would! But as @grainboy pointed it's not mine and it was that murky grey area I wanted clarifying with collective

 

[Lazy Sod]

About 25 years ago, I put a kestrel nesting box on a very tall 1100 volt power line pole, which also had a stay wire. Some years later, a neighbour who was drilling for us got too close to the stay with his power harrow and the wire wrapped around the end rotor, it bent the pole over in quite a curve. The leccy lads came out, released the tractor and replaced the stay. Nothing was said about the nest box. It's probably still their now.

 

[tepapa]

If it's a new pole, I bet it won't be inspected for a good 10+ years