Power pole ideas

Are you like me, and have an ever-growing list of homestead improvement projects? Try using telephone poles! We have a large pier-and-beam barn on the homestead that once upon a time was used as a corn silo. The layout was difficult to use for anything we needed, and it was obviously not used as a...

After our son Allen used telephone poles to support the lean-to part of his new shed last year, 2011, my husband put out the word that he would be interested in acquiring some old telephone poles. We soon had seven telephone poles laying on our driveway...... Now all we had to do was find a way to use them, right? We decided to build a stand-alone workshop at the end of the driveway. Excavation for the new building was soon under way. Before long we had a sort of telephone forest in our…

There are a lot of issues that need to be overcome when installing a power pole on your property. The distance of your RV parking site from the road will...

Power Pole Swing Set

I am looking to build of pole building this spring. I have asked several people and have gotten several opinions on whether to use cement around the pole to...

An old utility pole makes for an interesting and delightful planter that is sure to be the talk of the neighborhood — especially if you can find one with the hand holds. To make one, first fi…

Utility pole transformers (Overhead transformers)