SuperCut 50P On New Steel 7 Ga Light Pole

[cbmkr]

I found a new light pole that was damage at the base for about 10 cents on the dollar at a scrap dealer i have known for a long time. The pole was mild steel 7 ga and had a fresh light cote of paint on it. Used a strap to make a straight line around to follow with the torch. Cut this one free hand and it was smooth and clean with the machine set on 32 and air at 90psi.

[DaveO]

Good find. Did somebody scrap the pole because the dent in photo 2? Is that enough to compromise the pole, or is there other damage?

[cbmkr]

Good find. Did somebody scrap the pole because the dent in photo 2? Is that enough to compromise the pole, or is there other damage?

The dent at the base, my guess it was just installed and either a piece of equipment or vehicle hit it. $ 25.00 is a ?ell of a lot cheaper than what a piece of 7 or 8" tube would be.

It was cut into 2 pieces and i took the bottom half that was12' long ,i only needed the top 6' , I might push out the dents and use it for something

[MoparCar]

I'm a project manager for a commercial/industrial electrical contracting company. We scrap probably a dozen or so poles a year because of shipping damage. Most of the time it is the powdercoat that is scuffed most of the length of the pole because someone somewhere in the shipping process dragged it on the dock/trailer or a forklift stabbed the pole because when we purchase dozens of poles at a time they come on wood skids on a semi-trailer bundled together and then when loaded or unloaded someone stabs a fork into them. Sometimes the manufacturer or shipper will pay for them to be returned but most of the time we send pictures of the damage and they tell us to scrap them because of the freight cost to return. When the paint or powdercoat gets scraped we don't want the responsibility of covering the rust/finish warranty perhaps 5 years down the road due to shipping damage so we usually turn in a claim. We also have some that are damaged by cars in parking lots or wind blows them over.