Foxwold's How-the-heck-do-they-swing live, High Voltage, pole transfers- page.
The biggest part of the answer to that question.. as I have since found.. Is, they DON'T. All this work was done on dead conductors.. the lines were NOT live.. I guess that only makes sense...
This company, from who knows where, contracts for the local electric provider. The provider is having the poles replaced in the right-of-way from behind the house, all the way to Lebanon, I believe.
As always, newer groups of pictures appear at the top of the page..
get me back to photo albums page
Changing one set of poles to three..
One whole row of poles completed..
Just another, winch-happy, cat-tracked crane
that's the same dump rig that had the welder in it, now shown further below..
hmm.. three vertical poles in that new structure..
beginning of a transfer set-up
Hey Boss!? I have a capitol-tool request..
Loaded rig and trailer.. several loads came up the hill..
.. and this handy scooter runs them up the hill at about a dozen at a time
This truck is actually backing down the hill taking said scooter away..
.. just your ordinary dump truck on cat-tracks.. with a small welder in the back, maybe..
That's a pole mounting rig..
compressor driven, excavator-mounted, rock driller
I'll bet it's as quiet as a runaway freight train..
There's the compressor that runs that bit.. note the 4 foot step ladder for scale..
this was barely recognizable as a path before this job...
there's where all those planks went..
..from the middle of about a 100 yard run of artificial road..
Poles being moved, holes getting bored..
Work reached my street recently..
You'd think they had some sort of Federal access permit..
Just a few insulators.. good to several hundred thousand volts..
Need a road in the woods?
Simple!
Just bolt 500, 16 foot 8x8's together in groups of 5 or 6
Lay them out side to side..
You can drive wherever you like!
Just the butt end of an 85 foot pole!!