(Editor’s note: Here are some photos, text and a video shared by Hydro Ottawa, with background on Saturday’s pole-moving project on Maple Grove. Hydro Ottawa is proactively moving the poles to accomodate future road widening, currently slated for after 2013 in the City’s transportation master plan.)
Twenty-five employees, six contracting staff, 20 poles, 12 hours, one Pole Claw, one day. These are the numbers required to successfully complete hydro pole relocation on Maple Grove Road on Saturday, May 14, due to a road widening project.
This is not your “run-of-the-mill pole relocation” project. Crews worked from the Bell Sensplex to Huntmar Road on Maple Grove Road to set 20 poles in new holes and run ropes to prepare for stringing the overhead wires at a later date. The road was closed starting at 7 a.m. for that one kilometre stretch.
Hydro Ottawa crews set distribution poles along the north side of the street with a Pole Claw, an innovative and efficient method of setting poles with a heavy equipment “claw” that would otherwise take multiple personnel to safely accomplish.
Today on Maple Grove Rd, we relocated 20 poles in 12 hours for a road widening project. #Infrastructure #ottnews pic.twitter.com/ZYbnxLP41i
— Hydro Ottawa (@hydroottawa) May 14, 2016
.@wnb1958 Looks like a good day's work! @LinemanDaily #infrastructure #Ottawa pic.twitter.com/6esHHcJJru
— Hydro Ottawa (@hydroottawa) May 14, 2016