Bought some old telegraph poles...

Hey All,

So a contracting company was replacing telegraph poles today on our road, which included our DP (so we suffered a short Loss of Service). I asked the chap cheekily what he did with them after they took them down, and he said that people buy them off him. So i bought two of the decommissioned poles off him for £30 for use as flower beds, and they kindly delivered them after the new poles were up.

Thinking about it now, was it ok to of 'bought' them?

Yes - no problem.

Firstly - you bought them in good faith. So any underhandedness would be on his part. Secondly, yes they sell them. Normally to farms (we buy them, and road planings/scrappings, and old railway sleepers).
Only downside would be potential creosote in them so depending open your view they shouldn't be used in domestic gardens. But then they were for years.
Dave