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yard light pole installation
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I have a typical timber pole, about 35 feet long. A friend will be
helping me with his bobcat to auger a 12" post hole for the pole and
install the post within the hole.
I just cut down an old telephone pole on my property. I was left
with a 32 ft pole.
I'm in South Carolina, and I'm using the pole in a pole barn type
application, so I can't really address how far you need to sink
it, other than to guess that below your frost line is probably
as deep as you need to go - that's quite a few feet deep where you are.
I can say, though, that I cut my pole in two, and when me and my
neighbor and the front end loader were raising *that* pole it
was pretty exciting. Assuming your pole is anything like my
pole, it's like trying to handle a tree. My 16 ft long telephone pole
was in a way different class than the 16 ft long treated 6X6's
that I used in another part of the building.
-Mike
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