Wooden poles, telegraph poles and transmission poles. Where do they come from?

Telegraph poles begin their life as a Pinus Sylvestris tree located in the vast forests of Eastern Europe where it has spent 40 years growing and maturing. Once the tree reaches its correct size, both in length and dimension it is cut down by harvesters. The wooden poles now undergo several processes which transform them into telegraph poles. Firstly the wooden poles are debarked and peeled using a very sophisticated machine that does not damage the sapwood. Telegraph poles and telephone poles found in the UK are very smooth but this is simply customer preference, transmission poles on the other hand are generally rough as these don’t have to be as visually pleasing. Once the wooden poles are debarked and pealed all that is left to do is cut them to size. Once all the wooden poles are correctly dressed and prepared they are ready over for impregnation.