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Sawing white cedar power poles

Started by millwright, July 27, 2011, 07:39:58 PM

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millwright

I just took ownership of quite a bunch of cedar power poles. These are pretty good sized ones, what I plan to do is cut off the bottom 16feet and saw that part and that will still leave me with over 20 feet left to use for poles. These are really clean and have already been gone over for metal. The butt ends are about 20 inch average. I would like to know if there is anything special to be aware of before sawing this stuff besides looking for imbedded metal.

redbeard

Anytime I saw poles I wear long sleaves,mask and gloves. Also find a home for the sawdust and tailings there can be some kind of treatment in them. The poles in my area are treated especially the fir poles. I stay away from those. The cedar ones are hard to find around here and they are fairly clean of chemicals.
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ladylake

 Being the bottom 8' or so are treated heavy wouldn't you want to use them for poles and the tops for lumber.  I'd try and stay away from sawing that bottom 8' .  I've sawed quite a few poles and it went good, once or twice hit a small rock caught in a crack as can happen with any log.    Steve
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