Did they yell "Timber"?

We had a bit of excitement on the weekend. There was a fire outside in the alley. Close to the top of a wooden power line pole, there were flames licking up around one of the bobbly attachments that the power line sits on. (Bobbly attachments, that's a technical term :)

Today there are about a dozen people working outside. They've replaced the pole. I wasn't here when they took the old one down, so now I'll never know if they yell "Timber" when they take an old pole down. Bummer. I kinda doubt it. It looks like they may have cut it in half before removing it, thus reducing the chance of it falling on someone, so they didn't really need to yell.

They are doing a great deal of work up the new pole now. They attached some wooden cross braces at the top. Now they are attaching the wires and some new bobbly attachments to it.

It's quite the pole actually. There are 6 poles over there. One pole has 3 round drum-like things hanging close to the top. Two poles have a platform strung between them close to the top and 4 square mechanical boxes sitting on it. The pole that had a fire only has wires and bobbly attachments on it. There is another pole with only bobbly attachments. And there is one pole with only one wire between it and the one next to it that looks like it's there to keep the other ones stable.

What an enormous amount of equipment to be hanging in the air over there. It didn't look like anyone lost power when the one pole caught fire, so it's not obvious what the wires are doing... makes you wonder.