Bear climbing a hydro pole lol

[Red Squirrel]

Hope it didn't get zapped. lol

Only in my city...

 

[Ichinisan]

We call them “utility poles.”

I’m trying to understand how anyone got the habit of saying “hydro pole.” These utility poles usually carry lines for various utilities (phone, Internet, TV, power). Even if it was just electrical lines on that pole, the pole doesn’t have anything to do with the method by which the electricity was generated. What does the pole have to do with flowing water? Nothing really.

That said, a lot of people around here call them “telephone poles,” but I figure that term has been around since the 1920s.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The name is kind of interchangeable. Most people here call them hydro or telephone poles. At least here, typically the hydro company owns them so think that's how the name came to be. The other utilities rent space on them.

Actually I'm surprised I didn't get a call at work for this one. "Bear chewed my phone line, need a technician!".

 

[Ichinisan]

The name is kind of interchangeable. Most people here call them hydro or telephone poles. At least here, typically the hydro company owns them so think that's how the name came to be. The other utilities rent space on them.

Actually I'm surprised I didn't get a call at work for this one. "Bear chewed my phone line, need a technician!".

I just call my power company “the power company” or “the electric company.” I think GA Power is converting our local Plant Yates from coal to natural gas, so I’m glad we never got accustomed to calling it the “coal company” or “coal poles.”

Worst things we find on the lines here are squirrels and shoes.

 

[Fir]

Telephone poles and sometimes telegraph poles but that's the really old folk.

Bears are good climbers. I've seen them climb trees as fast as cats. It would definitely be a mistake for a person to try to get away from a bear by climbing a tree!

 

[BoomerD]

So...if your electricity comes from different sources than hydroelectric, is it delivered on separate poles? Oil pole, co-gen pole, coal pole?

MOST poles aren't "telephone poles," even though they MAY have telephone wires hanging on them...same with cable tv lines.
The telephone wires are USUALLY the lowest wires on the pole...with cable tv just above them...

 

[cbrunny]

He's looking at you, Red. I'm pretty sure this is a direct quote from the bear:

 

[boomerang]

No Poles in my neighborhood. Some Germans and a few Canadians though. No Bears, just Gators.

 

[BoomerD]

Red, be glad it wasn't one of these:
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article157324184.html

 

[kt]

Click on thread to find out what is a hydro pole. I am disappointed.

 

[sandorski]

Put a bowl of Homo Milk at the bottom. He'll come down.

 

[Thebobo]

Only in Canada

 

[zinfamous]

We call them “utility poles.”

I’m trying to understand how anyone got the habit of saying “hydro pole.” These utility poles usually carry lines for various utilities (phone, Internet, TV, power). Even if it was just electrical lines on that pole, the pole doesn’t have anything to do with the method by which the electricity was generated. What does the pole have to do with flowing water? Nothing really.

That said, a lot of people around here call them “telephone poles,” but I figure that term has been around since the 1920s.

Canada, yo. Didn't you know that their poles are made of water?

 

[NesuD]

All that power generated by the Niagara river being diverted. Hydro power. What part of Ontario are you in Red? Thinking about visiting Owen Sound for hockey game in Sept if they let my evil American ass cross at Sarnia.

 

[disappoint]

Hydro? "Did you just assume my gen....erator?" ~The utility pole probably

 

[bruceb]

In Canada they do use the term hydro, since most of the electric is from hydroelectric plants. On that pole, where the bear is at, he is getting near the cable tv lines. Nowhere near where the 7KV gets changed to 220V for home use.

 

[Darwin333]

 

[Red Squirrel]

All that power generated by the Niagara river being diverted. Hydro power. What part of Ontario are you in Red? Thinking about visiting Owen Sound for hockey game in Sept if they let my evil American ass cross at Sarnia.

I'm in Timmins. Should be easy enough to get in, they'll just want you to leave your gun at the border and claim your soul at customs.

 

[nakedfrog]

I could call the ones in my neighborhood nuclear poles!

 

[Drako]

Is it always cold enough to keep those hydro poles frozen?

 

[Ken g6]

I could call the ones in my neighborhood nuclear poles!

Or nuclear-fueled rods?

 

[sdifox]

Relax, it's just Winnie the Pooh looking for honey.

 

[KMFJD]

While i was in the Yukon there was a report on the radio that a person on a bicycle was attacked by a grizzly bear while on the Dempster Highway (had food in his basket which it was after)