Update: stopped guessing drops with my tape measure, now I just count the pole spans

Ruby Sullivan · 2026-10-26T18:30:03.369354+00:00

For 3 years I'd walk every run in St. Louis with a wheel and a tape, and my drop counts were still off by a foot or two half the time. Last month an old timer on my crew told me to just count pole spans and add the sag, and my last 6 jobs have lined up dead on. Does anybody else drop heights off the spans or am I late to this?

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