Ok i am going to pick up telephone poles for a pole barn. i am getting them for free but i have to take all of them. "22 total" the question is how heavy do yall think they are each. i think they are around 35' long and nomal diameter about 8". i need to know if i can haul all of them on our 35' goose.

the guy i am getting them from thinks they are about 700 lbs. with 22 pole and the trailer it will be around 24K lbs if they are 700 lbs. not sure i want to do that with my 2500 SRW but then again why not, its a CTD

Thanks,
Eric

 

I dont think 700 # Im sure there less if there ceder

 

Pole ( caber) throwing poles are not nearly that heavy , and usually 14-20' long.

read the first section of this , it says 130 lbs , 20'

http://www.obangames.com/ObanGamesEvents.htm

 

Wheres a lineman he would know

 

Even if it is 24,000lbs you can handle it!

Dont worry bout the mule, just load the wagon!

 

A few years ago I also hauled some poles. The average length was 35-40’ with the butt around 12- 14”. I do not recommend that you try to haul over 6-8 poles on your SRW. I loaded 8-10 on my DRW
and a 3 axle 35’ gooseneck and it was all the truck and trailer wanted. Creosote is heavy.

 

http://www.jea.com/about/pub/downloa...OH-2-Poles.pdf

Page 3 has the chart for weights. a 35' pole can be about 1000lbs to 1600lbs

 

for reference
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/wo...sity-d_40.html

83 lb/ft^3
8" diameter nominal?
Ill round to 10"
Pi*R^2 = 75 in^2
75/144 we will call 1/2 ft^2 * 35 ft we will call 20 ft^3
20 cubic feet of wood * 83 lb/ cubic foot is 1660 lb.
Thats a heck of a pole.
unless its balsa wood and then your looking at a 160 pound pole..

 

My neighbor gave me one once. I dug a hole besides it, let it lay down, pulled it to my house with a riding lawnmower, dug a hole with a trench and stood it up.....all by myself. So I don't think it was anywhere near 700#. My guess would be closer to 200#. This was an older pole. It seemed to be more dried out. Maybe that's something you can consider. Maybe a newer pole would be heavier. Just a guess.

 

them things are heavy, the but end in the ground usually soaked / saturated with creosote, if they are green poles, then they are full of water. might be one helluva load.

 

i used some 8' cut telephone poles for corner posts on my fence. they were HEAVY. as mentioned, creosote adds some weight.

on one of mine, i dug the hole and dropped in the pole only to realize i needed to dig more. i couldnt get the sonofagun back out of the hole. i had to use a bumper jack to get it out.

that being said, id probably just start loading them and see how it squats the truck, then go from there

 

When I done my fence, any post that wasn't deep enough got shortened on the other end...

 

The closest I can get you is the following from an old Popular Mechanics article...

7" 40' = 850lbs
6" 45' = 900lbs

 

well thanks for the input and i will just have to load it and see what happens. but they are older poles so i am hopeing they won't be to heavy.

Thanks,