Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote

Yes they need that for accurate mapping for future diggers upperers. so to
speak.

Incidentally, do they now make telegraph poles of anything other than
wood?

Plenty of our replacement power poles are concrete now.
All the new estates have underground everything.
We have never had separate poles for the phone lines.

"Chris J Dixon" wrote in message
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JohnP wrote:

Keep you eyes peeled - plastic tube with cap stapled to the post. I guess
it is a one off audit after instalation.

I have seen a lot of activity with men with clipboards and camera phones
around poles that have been equiped with fibre.

When contractors were working locally replacing old gas pipes,
before they backfilled each trench, they dropped in a calibrated
depth board and took a photo.