Stobie Pole

with a giggle of galahs on the wires. (I just made up that collective noun). This group were actually not saying much at all.

The stobie pole... here's a snippet from Wikipedia which says it better than I could.

A Stobie pole is a power line pole made of two steel joists held apart by a slab of concrete in the middle. It was invented by Adelaide Electricity Supply Company design engineer James Cyril Stobie (1895-1953).[1] Stobie used materials easily at hand due to the shortage of suitably long, strong, straight and termite-resistant timber in South Australia.

Want to read what that red "Danger" sign says?