This morning in downtown Lafayette, Calfornia we saw a strange site: a PGE truck with a crane attachment slowly yanking a giant telephone pole out of the ground.
This was right by the BART station in Lafayette. The truck had a big metal loop on the top of its crane arm, and while another truck stopped traffic, it latched onto a telephone pole and started slowly rocking it from side to side while pulling it out of the ground.
It’s the same movement a dentist might use to pull a tooth–but this tooth happens to be 20 feet high!
We’ve never seen anything like this operation before. Maybe it was related to PGE’s ongoing efforts to underground their power lines?
Either way, it was quite the way to start the day. Let’s hope the truck has a good grip on that thing!
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