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Tricky Dicky writes
All the wooden poles round here just have bog standard copper wiring
but all have the stapled rod going into the ground.

There is a telegraph pole on the verge outside of my house. It was
installed after I moved here. I noticed that the first time the council
mowed the verge, they broke the earth wire. I did mention this to BT,
but many years later it is still broken.

Adrian
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