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From initial price to long-term efficiency, wood wins out. Creating an affordable crossarm for the utility industry ultimately means a public or private utility can pass those cost savings to ratepayers. Wood crossarms provide that opportunity, offering a distinctly affordable product from the beginning to end of the life cycle that outperforms composite crossarm options. As utilities across the United States struggle with increasing costs while working to harden their grid reliability, wood crossarms offer a proven solution that is sometimes overlooked....

Wood Crossarms Offer the Affordable, Reliable Choice for Utility Ratepayers From initial price to long-term efficiency, wood wins out. Creating an affordable crossarm for the utility industry ultimately means a public or private utility can pass those cost savings to rate…

Wildfires and Utility structures - Follow the Science before selecting Materials!

Materials Science & Wood Pole Protection Millions of poles carry thousands of miles of distribution lines through highly susceptible grasslands and forests, leaving utilities particularly vulnerable.

The Truth About Composite Crossarms: Some would have you believe that holding a hand torch to a composite crossarm for a few seconds proves them to be self-extinguishing and also represents real world wildfire situations. Please see the attached video, or the video link for a “Truth Check”. Crossarms in the video are subject to intense heat and flame, in an independent lab, simulating the effects of a raging wildfire with the crossarms under load.

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Crossarm fire test Fire tests on wood and composite fiberglass utility crossarms conducted at the Western Fire Center, Inc. in Kelso, WA, on May 4, 2022

Thanks to our friends at Barleans for their wonderful smoked salmon holiday baskets that we provide to our cherished clients.
🎄🎉Happy Holidays from everyone at Brooks MFG Co!🎉🎄

We are so happy to be able to support our local Bellingham Technical College by donating this forklift. Best wishes to all starting school at BTC this year!