POLE INSPECTION: Employees of Osmose Company of Georgia are inspecting telephone poles in Livingston for communications and power companies which is done every 15 years. This involves digging down several feet to determine if the pole has started to rot out. Those compromised poles, such as the one shown here on Trocha Avenue on Wednesday, October 6, are mitigated and brought up to standards with a six foot long piece of steel. The steel is knocked into the ground around the pole with a black hydraulic hammer, shown in the center of the picture, and it is attached to the pole with steel bands. Jerry Siskind Photo ...
