Pole made from a plurality of wood boards and method of making same

A pole comprising a plurality of elongated panels face-joined in a stacked arrangement, the elongated panels being oriented longitudinally relative to an axis of the pole, each one of the elongated panels having a plurality of panel sections longitudinally joined end to end, each one of the panel sections having a plurality of transversally edge-joined wood boards having the same thickness but varying edge-to-edge widths, the elongated panels being face-joined to one another in the stacked arrangement in the direction of the thickness of the wood boards.

A method of making a pole comprising:

• edge-joining a plurality of wood boards into panel sections;
• longitudinally joining a plurality of the panel sections in an end to end relationship, thereby forming elongated panels;
• face-joining a plurality of the elongated panels into an elongated stack, each one of the elongated panels being an assembly of substantially longitudinally-oriented wood boards.

A method of making poles, comprising:

• face joining a plurality of elongated panels into an elongated stack, each one of the elongated panels being comprised of an assembly of substantially longitudinally-oriented wood boards
• separating the elongated stack substantially in the longitudinal direction into at least two poles by separating each one of the elongated panels.