Thread: Coupla big posts WIP.

Originally Posted by murray44

Lovely work and a great WIP.

But they're going to be painted you say....

After Jim saw the colour he may oil them.

Nice job lad. Just got home after driving through Cardwell. More than a few large old tea trees, and others, lying around waiting for some tlc.

Nice to see you wearing a face mask , not sure it would help if the job came adrift??????

Jim

Saw them yesterday, even more impressive in real life. Beautiful figure, it would be a shame to paint them. Now does Jim have a stately manor to put behind them?

We saw similar posts a while ago and decided we wanted turned posts for our driveway.

I can turn up to 12' long but no where near the diameter we wanted, weight has a big factor. Our fork lift will not get into our shed either.

So Who ya gonna call



Had a chat and drew up a bit of a drawing of what we wanted and left the rest up to ..

Put him under a bit of pressure to have them ready for the weekend as it would be a fair while before we can get back over to his place. Lots of shows coming up in the next couple of months.

We had originally thought of painting them but after seeing the color and feature of the Ironbark we have decided to oil them .

I will give Livos a call in the morning to confirm what they would reccomend for timber that is 75 years old, there was the copper plate still embeded in the post indicating 1935.

loaded them into the back of the ute this morning and with the rain on them it gave us a fair indication of what they will look like when oiled, very nice indeed.

Got them home ok but it continued to rain so did not get them set up.

As soon as we get a chance I will post some photos of what they look like in position.

No we dont quite have a home to match the posts, maybe one day whe we get a wink of George.

kudos to he has done a mighty fine job as you would expect.
It was also good for all the guys there yesterday to see something different.

Nice lines on them.
Excellent choice on the use of something that will show off the beauty of the wood.

Impressive, as usual, .

Love that long handled gouge!
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Hi ,
The Pole in the 3rd. & 4th. Photos tell me they were S.E.C. Poles, ( State Electricity Commission of Victoria.) They were also Octagonal, which that pole was.
It was what you might call a Dual Pole, as the P.M. G. ( Post Master General ) or Telecom were allowed to make use of the SEC Poles for their Wires as well.
So the Concaved Dark Disc would be Brass, & as you said all the info about the Pole.
It would have printed, S.E.C. Then most likely 40, meaning 40 ft in length, & seeing you said Iron Bark, it would have IB there as well.
Now the Brass Discs were from 00 which was 1900 ( very collectable ) to 58 / 1958, as they then changed them to Aluminum. The nailed round Aluminum Disc is most likely SEC as well.
I have a nice Collection of these Discs, as I would change them from Convex to Concave, & made many Ash Trays for the Smokers, as most times I could find their Birth Year on them.
I was never able to find a " 00 " Disc, but a few of the Linesman did. Believe or not, there are still some 1900 Poles still standing, & in good condition.
The Yellow Plate was the P.M.G's info plate.
As for all the nails, The SEC never used that many that I am aware of.

Very impressive ....methinks you may have made a rod for your back...the punters will be lining up at the door.

Good to see you were able to match the age of the poles to Jim.

cheers

John M

I heard you had taken up pen turning ...

Originally Posted by Harry72

I heard you had taken up pen turning ...

Yeah, right.

Originally Posted by issatree

Hi ,
The Pole in the 3rd. & 4th. Photos tell me they were S.E.C. Poles, ( State Electricity Commission of Victoria.) They were also Octagonal, which that pole was.
It was what you might call a Dual Pole, as the P.M. G. ( Post Master General ) or Telecom were allowed to make use of the SEC Poles for their Wires as well.
So the Concaved Dark Disc would be Brass, & as you said all the info about the Pole.
It would have printed, S.E.C. Then most likely 40, meaning 40 ft in length, & seeing you said Iron Bark, it would have IB there as well.
Now the Brass Discs were from 00 which was 1900 ( very collectable ) to 58 / 1958, as they then changed them to Aluminum. The nailed round Aluminum Disc is most likely SEC as well.
I have a nice Collection of these Discs, as I would change them from Convex to Concave, & made many Ash Trays for the Smokers, as most times I could find their Birth Year on them.
I was never able to find a " 00 " Disc, but a few of the Linesman did. Believe or not, there are still some 1900 Poles still standing, & in good condition.
The Yellow Plate was the P.M.G's info plate.
As for all the nails, The SEC never used that many that I am aware of.

Thanks Lewis. The nails were from people nailing signs on them.

The SEC used coach screws which make a nice job of blunting the tool (read chip) resulting in much profanity and wasting a lot of time.

a man who listens to opera using profanity
what's the world coming to

Hi again,
Yes, I was going to mention that some people attach signs to Power Poles.
As for the Coach Bolts, there was always the Lazy Liney who would not Dip the C/B
in the Joggle Grease, & would hammer it in, & when we went to remove them, years later, would most likely screw the head off, because they went rusty. Did the same to our Chain Saws.

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

a man who listens to opera using profanity
what's the world coming to

But only in Italian or German.