Trident Industries

Some of us may remember the dominos craze. Before cell phones and video games consumed our idle time, kids (and…

Engineer builds homemade model to show crews how to build an H-frame structure with composite poles. Fifty-five years ago, linemen…

The use of composite material for poles and crossarms is rapidly gaining acceptance and use throughout the utility industry. Composite poles are increasingly being used for many distribution and transmission applications in both monopole and H-Frame configurations.

During the first outage, the crews worked on about half of the poles. Once they took a structure down, they…