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3hr power cut thanks to some trees
On 19/10/2012 11:56, wrote:
I have a line like that above our garden ,it was converted to aerial
bundled years ago so the danger from some trees is more from physical
damage than electrical mainly from a branch falling from above. The
trees I've never really found who owns them, thought it was the farmer
as they are over the fence but though he does trim them to clear the
combine he says they are actually on a bit of land left when an estate
sold the land we live on 70 years ago ,probably a sort of ransom strip
that has now been forgotten about.
Lovely, that's helpful! Erm, is that right next to your property? Does
the rule about claiming land by fencing it in and hoping no-one notices
for seven years, still exist? Or was that always a myth?
I trim or get someone competent in to do so every so often,they are
sycamores so giant weeds really though the birds like em.
Whenever a branch has threatened the cable a phone call to the
electric supplier has seen someone come out to deal with it,if I am
lucky they sometimes remove a little more than needed in exchange for
a cup of tea and biscuits.
If I had been in the OPs position I think I may have made a call to
the supplier and mentioned that some trees were appearing to get close
to conductors and could they check it. As he states they wouldn't have
grown close over night and he must have seen them growing.
In an ideal world you'd be quite right. inded. Unfortunately, exiting
our driveway in a car is a matter of looking very carefully between the
parked cars to avoid being hit by someone who hasn't slowed down from
the 60mph to the 30mph zone which starts 20 yards away, and the driveway
is below road level, not above, so visibility is very poor.
If I'm not in the car I'm most likely on the bicycle with children in
tow, and I'm more concerned again with the on-coming cars, not the trees
opposite!
Further down the road, if I'm on foot, I'm more concerned with the trees
that overhand the footpaths - and I usually snap off the odd branch when
I'm passing in order to keep the trees above head height. Nobody else
ever trims them as far as I can tell.
So, perverse as it may seem, looking at the trees right under my nose,
so to speak, doesn't get done!
Michael
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