sawing Telephone poles - Advice

[Digger Don]

in some areas they drill the poles and inject pesticides in them. The utilities here cut them in short lengths and send them to be disposed of. They no longer give them away.

A few months ago, we cut 22 PT poles, in exchange for an old farm truck. I personally went over every one of them, looking for any metal, and removed it all. Then, we found enough, some inside the poles, to ruin six blades. It seems that they bore holes in the pole, then insert an aluminum tube with pesticide and plug the hole. No way you would find them, until it's too late. Maybe, if you have a metal detector and know how to use it. I didn't. I suppose the good thing is that one strike of an aluminum tube, didn't seem to damage the blade much. I think we've learned our lesson.