Patent ID: 6151860
Filing Date: 2000-11-28
Classification: E04H

Abstract:
A method of raising the transmission hardware carried by a utility pole having a base end disposed in a ground foundation supporting the pole in upright position, comprising the following:a. sequentially securing generally opposed, circumferentially spaced, elongate pole support members, with upper ends, to extend upwardly along the pole and dispose said upper ends at a first level a predetermined distance from the ground and severing the pole at a severing level below said first level to define a first pole supported by the pole foundation and a second pole supported by said first pole and circumferentially braced by said pole support members; said severing being sequentially effected with said pole being partially severed on one side and one of said support members then being positioned and secured alongside the pole on the said one side, said pole then being partially severed on the opposing side and the other support member then being positioned and secured alongside said pole on said opposing side, the remainder of said pole circumferentially between said pole support members then being severed to complete severing of said pole;b. releasably attaching a vertically extending parallel ladder device with vertically spaced rungs to one of said pole support members after said one of said pole support members is secured;c. raising said second pole a predetermined distance above said first pole to a level remaining below the upper ends of said pole support members; andd. climbing up said ladder device and fixing the lower end of said second pole within and to said upper ends of said pole support members at a spaced distance above said first pole in a cable raising position.