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Stobie pole
noun a power pole. Compare hydro pole, power pole, SEC pole, telegraph pole, telepole. [from JC Stobie, design engineer with the Adelaide Electric Supply Company]
Contributor's comments: Specifically Stobie Poles are Powerpoles made from a steel girder & concrete.
Contributor's comments: The particular feature of the stobie pole is that it is constructed of steel and concrete, rather than wood as used in other States. Cars always come off second best if they drive into one.
Contributor's comments: In Upper Hunter we have timber power poles that are quite often referred to as "telegraph poles".
Contributor's comments: Stobies/stobie poles are steel framed with concrete infill power poles designed by a Mr Stobie & used as power transmission poles in Adelaide & SA generally. Being a very dry state SA did not have suitable timber resources to produce timber power poles as used in other states so stobies were developed. They are particularly ugly & are a significant factor in road accidents as there is less give when hit by a vehicle than with timber poles. The saving grace though is that they are produced locally from local products - steel & cement, eliminating the need to import poles: "Stobies line roads and highways and are ofter criticised because of their ugliness."
Contributor's comments: Please ignore the postcode [6770] above, no one uses stobie pole here - I used it growing up in Whyalla, and I might add that having lived outside SA I can vouch that no one else knows what I am talking about when I say Stobie pole!
Contributor's comments: power pole: "Check out the spoggie on the stobie pole."
Contributor's comments: Electricity pole: "Look at all the birds sitting on the stobie pole."
Contributor's comments: stobey pole: electricity poles (telegraph poles) made of 2 steel gurders side by side with concrete in between. Invented by Mr Stobey I think: "Turn left at the third stobey pole in Smith Street."