Overhead Design Illustrations: Slack Span Framing

A friendly introduction to slack span framing for wood poles in the electric utilities design industry.

Slack span construction is a type of construction that is used in environments where placement of sufficient guying is less than favorable or perhaps impossible. Some of these situations may be locations that are:

• deadended conductors backing up to roadsides

• deadended conductors backing up to driveways or sidewalks

• a deadend corner or significant line an…