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Wiring Feed
Here's a shot of the feeder cable for a streetlight, not sure why they didn't use the wire hole opting instead to run the wire under the arm baseplate. 
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Wiring Feed

Here's a shot of the feeder cable for a streetlight, not sure why they didn't use the wire hole opting instead to run the wire under the arm baseplate.

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Album name:joe_347V / Fixer Uppers/Light Humour
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Antstar85   [Sep 24, 2011 at 09:16 PM]
ugh! Rolling Eyes Lazy linemen!
gailgrove   [Sep 24, 2011 at 10:55 PM]
I see this a lot, I wonder if there is some reason they do this?
streetlight98   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:17 PM]
They probably don't want to spend a minute more feeding the wire up the wiring hole. Rolling Eyes
joe_347V   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:22 PM]
Yeah probably being lazy again, well at least they used the correct arm for wood poles. I've seen them use the arms for concrete poles on wood poles before which have a narrower baseplate and tends to dig into the wood pole after a few years. Rolling Eyes
gailgrove   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:27 PM]
Well the manufactures of the arms claim those arms can be used on wooden poles. I would have to debate that it even takes longer to feed the wire through the bottom pole.
streetlight98   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:29 PM]
I've seen a tapered E arm that the welding at the baseplate broke loose. Shocked All that was left was the mounting plate. Talk about scarey. The other lights around it were 250w HPS M-250R2s on 8 foot tapered E arms.
gailgrove   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:30 PM]
I've seen that, but only after the pole was hit.
joe_347V   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:34 PM]
I've seen that too, and I think Niall has a picture of one, although I can't find it at the moment.
streetlight98   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:38 PM]
The pole didn't look hit. it was an older pole, so i don't think it would have survived an inpact strong enough to break the welding. The mounting bracket was replaced with a 250w HPS M-250R2 on a 6 foot upsweep arm.
gailgrove   [Sep 24, 2011 at 11:47 PM]
Might of been defective then. Joseph, here is the picture I have.
Mercuryvapor123   [Mar 29, 2013 at 12:52 AM]
They did the same thing on my street corner, Thers a reason for that wire grommet. The bottom lag goes through the center of the base plat on it too I'm suprised they didn't pound it through the feeds. Rolling Eyes
streetlight98   [Mar 29, 2013 at 01:15 AM]
can you show a pic of what those pound-in lags look like? are they like nails instead of screws/bolts?

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