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[STEMO]

We were taught, on our B course, how to dig a hole to erect poles. Not of this fancy 'truck turns up with a giant auger'.
You had to dig 'steps' down about 6', lay the pole at an angle of about 40°, and haul the bastid up with ropes.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

And then attach the gas lamps to the top of them.

[Kevin Wood]

And then attach the gas lamps to the top of them.

Semaphore flags, surely?

[STEMO]

And then attach the gas lamps to the top of them.

You'd remember them, being in your sixties an all. 

[TheBoy]

We were taught, on our B course, how to dig a hole to erect poles. Not of this fancy 'truck turns up with a giant auger'.
You had to dig 'steps' down about 6', lay the pole at an angle of about 40°, and haul the bastid up with ropes.

Again, whilst I might have erected the occasional pole when the boss was the other end of the county, never had a course

[Doctor Gollum]

We were taught, on our B course, how to dig a hole to erect poles. Not of this fancy 'truck turns up with a giant auger'.
You had to dig 'steps' down about 6', lay the pole at an angle of about 40°, and haul the bastid up with ropes.

Again, whilst I might have erected the occasional pole when the boss was the other end of the county, never had a course

Not falling off was probably a course prerequisite 

[STEMO]

We were taught, on our B course, how to dig a hole to erect poles. Not of this fancy 'truck turns up with a giant auger'.
You had to dig 'steps' down about 6', lay the pole at an angle of about 40°, and haul the bastid up with ropes.

Again, whilst I might have erected the occasional pole when the boss was the other end of the county, never had a course

Did you hang around to see if it stayed up? 

[TheBoy]

We were taught, on our B course, how to dig a hole to erect poles. Not of this fancy 'truck turns up with a giant auger'.
You had to dig 'steps' down about 6', lay the pole at an angle of about 40°, and haul the bastid up with ropes.

Again, whilst I might have erected the occasional pole when the boss was the other end of the county, never had a course

Did you hang around to see if it stayed up? 

I was first up...   ...but when I did a real job, I was a slim lightweight...

[STEMO]

We were taught, on our B course, how to dig a hole to erect poles. Not of this fancy 'truck turns up with a giant auger'.
You had to dig 'steps' down about 6', lay the pole at an angle of about 40°, and haul the bastid up with ropes.

Yeah......but did it stay up when a few dropwires were attached to it? 
Again, whilst I might have erected the occasional pole when the boss was the other end of the county, never had a course

Did you hang around to see if it stayed up? 

I was first up...   ...but when I did a real job, I was a slim lightweight...

[TheBoy]

The dropwires probably held it up STEMO


I was up D once (hadn't noticed the big red D on the way up ), thinking that it was moving a lot. Fortunately it had a load of dropwires in all directions.  I was concerned enough that I came back down and then tested the pole. It was rotten to hell

[STEMO]

Have you ever been up a treble? 
I'm glad to say I haven't. We had a 40 footer in Huyton, three poles lashed/nailed/whatever together. It was called 'I'm not going near that f**ker' 

[VXL V6]

More poles with a D than ever these days, seems that replacement schedules aren't getting much funding / interest, unless they are running fibre pole to pole like most of mid Wales!

[Andy H]

I read an interesting article the other day which stated that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, polluter in this country is household boilers. HTF do we propose sorting that one out?

hydrogen

[aaronjb]

I read an interesting article the other day which stated that one of the biggest, if not the biggest, polluter in this country is household boilers. HTF do we propose sorting that one out?

hydrogen

Wooly jumpers for all.

Or, more likely, a huge white elephant scheme where the Government tries to persuade us all to change our boilers to the latest air-sourced or ground-sourced heat-pumps with a kickback, so we switch our heating from gas to electricity and they move the source of pollution production more centrally.

Which is great, because that will add more load to the already creaky grid, ready for when EVs are mandatory and we're trying to charge those, as well as stay warm.

[Doctor Gollum]

Decisions, decisions...