Over the last few weeks I have noticed that some of the new poles Manitoba Hydro had installed to a pork packing plant have a strange look to them.

Yesterday I was able to see one up close and it appears to be a tapered laminated wood pole. Sort of what you would see as a main beam in a new house only tapered and not round.

So far they appear to be only used for the underground dips to new High Voltage Substation Buster pad mount transformers for new subdivisions and commercial buildings. They must be costly if they are only being used as end poles and not as line poles.

Has anybody else seen this type of pole in use?