[Leica] Tuesday Trees

[Sonny Carter]

In some cases, old climbing skills are still important.  I imagine splicing
phone wires still requires getting close.  I've seen linemen set up tented
structures pole-top.
Regards,

Sonny
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Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 11:03 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> For the most part telephone/utility poles will not have so many spike marks
> going forward.  The utilities I am acquainted with all use lift trucks.  In
> fact, the caravans of utility trucks moving south to respond to the recent
> hurricane damage in Mississippi and Louisiana all had lift trucks.  So the
> lineman going up with spikes and a belt is getting to be pretty rare.  As a
> side note you can sort of date poles by the use of creosote as a
> preservative, the new poles don't have it and haven't for 15 years?
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 7:31 AM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Nice observations, Don.  I like the utility pole and the palm tree
> > detail best.  To follow up on the utility pole theme, here is one from
> > around 1957 that contains the bane of the lineman's existence, nails.  A
> > new pole has been placed alongside it, but the lower part remains.  It
> > has obviously seen more spikes than yours.
> >
> > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190824-P8240017.JPG.html
> >
> > On 10/6/20 6:35 AM, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> > > Greetings to all.  These images were all from a walk around the block
> > > examining Halloween decorations and finding trees as well.  Typically
> > these
> > > are all detail images.  The first is a tree trunk from 1984 repurposed
> > to a
> > > telephone pole as identified by the ID tag and information stamped on
> the
> > > trunk:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/AT_amp_T.jpg.html
> > >
> > > I have always been fascinated by Palm trees so a detail look at one:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/Palm+trunk+I.jpg.html
> > >
> > > This is about symmetry or not, an old injury on a relatively young
> tree:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/old+injury.jpg.html
> > >
> > > LIkewise, I have always liked the trunks of crepe myrtles:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/Crepe+Myrtle+figure+study.jpg.html
> > >
> > > Last for today is an oak tree with multiple burles:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Tuesday+Trees/burls.jpg.html
> > >
> > > All the best.
> > >
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> >
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