Here's a bunch of Powerlite R47s mounted on some direct buried sectional steel poles which from what I've seen have a tendency to lean over in one direction after some time.
Direct buried poles in my area is MORE common than GULLS! Perfect example here, in the picture on the link, the only the ones with tapered E arms and has fiberglass poles are the ones direct buried....the others are mounted differently and are older installations...also for the galvanized steel poles in my area, look at the shorter pole with the GE sag lens that one is also direct buried and is everywhere in my utility land as well as the fiberglass poles
Yep they kept the fixtures, there wasn't any reason to replace them, the poles and fixtures day's are numbered anyways, the road is to be widened shortly
Yep it's gone, replaced by a 50 foot concrete pole 8 foot arm and 400 watt OVX. The other poles like it just down the road was also replaced, it would of been cool to get one of the fixtures but I guess that won't happen... Oh, and these where direct burial poles, they had cut the base off the other one and it was left laying beside the new pole.
I also haven't seen any newly installed direct buried metal poles, the new ones are all bolted to a concrete base.
but the Idea is pretty cool though,and anyone know how big the foundation for a Non-Direct Burial Pole is?
Can't remember what the lumes were back then back then but I believe that only the intersections were lit.