Snap: Utility pole-raising

Workers raise the pole at 9:29am Thursday.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER

Ever wonder how a utility pole gets raised? Well, it appears to involve a boom on a truck, as this December 2 install along Second Street NW indicates. Here, workers with Roanoke-based Davis H. Elliot Company raise a new pole after about a week of on-site preparation of adjacent electrical wires.