Telegraph Pole Planter (1965)

Post Office (GPO) machine that makes planting telegraph poles much easier, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.
M/S large green lorry pulling over on grass verge. It has a large mechanical crane device on top and telegraph poles. Various shots of two men in yellow hard hats operating machinery on back of lorry. M/S of man pulling lever to lower telegraph pole from lorry. M/S of man hammering in nails into side of pole.
C/U and M/S of large drill or boring device being lowered. C/U of lever being pulled by workman to operate drill. Several C/U's of pole planter making large hole in the ground. The drill is then lifted out. C/U of man's hand pushing lever. Various shots of men operating crane like machinery to put the pole into hole.
M/S's of man using shovel to throw soil back in hole while the other worker uses an hydraulic tamper to pack the soil down.
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[@BirdmanNorfolk]

I well remember the first time I saw one of these ingenious machines working to put in a new pole outside my house when i was a child, the chaps working it were very friendly and explained everything to me about how it all worked, they also told me it was called a Polecat, never forgot that, and I'm in my fifties now !, been fascinated with everything mechanical and electrical my whole life to date

[@johnboughton7451]

Spent nearly 10 years working with one of theses

[@900BEN]

Involved with that work in various guises from engineer to surveyor for over 30 years . Good days

[@8skellerns]

Now all those Poles are D Poles lol!

[@philsimpson3556]

No such luxuries in our PO area in the sixties. We had to manhandle a pole upright. Also can’t believe that engineer is wearing a tie. T1 or T2A?

[@jeffreyloftus3617]

Or "winkle pickers"

[@roddyk05]

£7000 - phew!