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Give Me a Break – Stobie Pole Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/6/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

As you motor along this straight stretch of the Dukes Highway there isn’t a great deal to see.  In fact it’s quite boring, so why not stop and learn something about the South Australia Stobie Pole.

The Stobie Pole is a pole made of two steel joist held apart by a slab of concrete and bolts.  Using the compressive strength of the concrete and the tensile strength of the steel, the Stobie Pole is a very strong and versatile composite structure, which is also resistant to termite damage.  It’s nearly un-breakable!

Invented by design engineer James Cyril Stobie for the Adelaide Electricity Supply Company, the Stobie used materials easily available in South Australia.  The patent applied for in both England and France in 1925 described the pole as ...

"an improved pole adopted to be used for very many purposes, but particularly for carrying electric cables, telegraph wires... [it] consists of two flanged beams of iron or steel, preferably rolled steel joist of 'H' or of channel sections, placed one beside the other with their flanges inward and preferably at a very slight angle one with the other and held together by means of tie bolts, the space between them being filled with cement concrete."

So stop a while, search for the cache and admire this very particular South Australian icon and invention.




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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs fgbovr cbyr haqre ebpx.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)