Rob Stayt, a retired policeman, telephone tech and polymath farmer from South Africa sent us this photo of a pole that is so short it is hard to imagine it ever being beaten in the T.P.A.S vertical challenge.
Rob tells us that a combine-harvester pulled down the farm telephone ine down along with three poles ( a drive-by uprooting as it were). Once he’d chased down the errant harvester and demanded apology for Mrs Stayt who was on the phone at the time Rob decided to repair the part of the line near the house. This is the result.
Now, Rob lists his address as Natal, South Africa… I remember my missus going to ante-Natal classes – I always wondered why she was so bloody long!