On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:06:49 -0700, trader_4 wrote:

I've noticed that many wooden electric poles here have recently been
updated with a steel channel, double u shaped, about ten inches wide,
extending from some level in the ground up the side of the pole to about
5 ft high. It's stamped out of one piece, but if you imagine two pieces
of steel channel about 5" wide laid side by side, vertically along the
pole, it's like that. etc

Drunk Driver Deflectors? :-)