This would happen if the original pole was badly shredded at the bottom so it can't be kept in place Odd though to see the stub just hanging; more typical would be to have it tied to the new pole with a pair of straps. In this case, it's just held by a wire.
It may stay like that for years. Around here we have plenty of pole pairs, with the power wires on the new pole and cable/telephone on the old, left that way for a long time. Neither the phone company nor the cable company are particularly interested in doing preventive maintenance.
When a crazy storm cuts power to 10s of thousands of customers in an area, the directive is usually to get power restored ASAP. I've seen worse.
They will get to it eventually.
Up the road from me there is a missing pole. Well, the new pole is laid out in a neighbor's front yard, but they got the wires repaired/replaced after a tree downed in a storm took out at least 2 poles (3 I think) and power for a couple of square miles. Couple of similar situations within a few miles.
Also, the power company - especially after a storm - only worries about power. Phone, cable, and internet is someone else's problem.
To be fair, the different providers' cables, conduits, and connections are different enough that no company wants to be held responsible for f@#$ing up another company's equipment or lines. Some of them up there are "plug and play", but not all of them.
It'd be like if you're remodeling your house and your plumber tries to move the electric lines. It might go fine, but if not there's huge liability AND it makes it harder for an actual electrician to test, troubleshoot, and fix. Even if it's fine, the electrician will have to come out and inspect it before the walls are closed up regardless -- it's not like he's saving a trip, so why not just let him handle it in the first place?
Suppose the power company did their thing and while they were up there tried to move the tel-coms' equipment. Further suppose they did 99 poles out of 100 with no problems but messed up on one. Now the tel-coms don't just have "moves" to do, they have to troubleshoot and test all 100 connections to both find and fix the now-broken one and make sure none of the rest are broken. It would have been easier and simpler to just let them handle it from the get-go.
People never think about "what could go wrong" until they've twisted the head off a bolt in the engine block. Some people in industry don't think about what could go wrong, until half the country loses cellphone coverage.
the pole was replaced and each set of wires belongs to a different utility and one of them hasnt moved that wire yet.
This would happen if the original pole was badly shredded at the bottom so it can't be kept in place Odd though to see the stub just hanging; more typical would be to have it tied to the new pole with a pair of straps. In this case, it's just held by a wire.
It may stay like that for years. Around here we have plenty of pole pairs, with the power wires on the new pole and cable/telephone on the old, left that way for a long time. Neither the phone company nor the cable company are particularly interested in doing preventive maintenance.
When a crazy storm cuts power to 10s of thousands of customers in an area, the directive is usually to get power restored ASAP. I've seen worse.
They will get to it eventually.
Up the road from me there is a missing pole. Well, the new pole is laid out in a neighbor's front yard, but they got the wires repaired/replaced after a tree downed in a storm took out at least 2 poles (3 I think) and power for a couple of square miles. Couple of similar situations within a few miles.
Also, the power company - especially after a storm - only worries about power. Phone, cable, and internet is someone else's problem.
To be fair, the different providers' cables, conduits, and connections are different enough that no company wants to be held responsible for f@#$ing up another company's equipment or lines. Some of them up there are "plug and play", but not all of them.
It'd be like if you're remodeling your house and your plumber tries to move the electric lines. It might go fine, but if not there's huge liability AND it makes it harder for an actual electrician to test, troubleshoot, and fix. Even if it's fine, the electrician will have to come out and inspect it before the walls are closed up regardless -- it's not like he's saving a trip, so why not just let him handle it in the first place?
Suppose the power company did their thing and while they were up there tried to move the tel-coms' equipment. Further suppose they did 99 poles out of 100 with no problems but messed up on one. Now the tel-coms don't just have "moves" to do, they have to troubleshoot and test all 100 connections to both find and fix the now-broken one and make sure none of the rest are broken. It would have been easier and simpler to just let them handle it from the get-go.
I agree completely.
People never think about "what could go wrong" until they've twisted the head off a bolt in the engine block. Some people in industry don't think about what could go wrong, until half the country loses cellphone coverage.