One issue that confused me was the tree trimmers for our electric
company had a good sized limb fall onto a fiber drop cable. I talked to
the crew and tried to have a conversation with them about their
liability insurance and they claimed I was the first person to ever
imply that they might be liable. They said they try to drop trees
safely, but sometimes they don't fall where you want, and generally they
just call the affected utility and they come out and fix it. Their
position was essentially, "you benefit from the tree trimming, but that
comes with a risk of damage and you just deal with it."
It didn't occur to me at the time, but maybe I should have asked the
power co. Maybe their agreement with the contractor puts the liability
on them. I assume /someone/ accepts liability for damage.
On 8/19/2020 10:13 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Around here, both towns and utilities mostly hire tree services to
trim the trees around the poles and wires. So the trimming and
chipping usually go together. Bucket truck for the guy with the chain
saw, and a dump truck pulling a shredder with a couple guys ground
crew feeding the shredder and cleaning up with leafblowers.
Our village does have some of their own equipment, but I think they
like being able to contract most of the routine tree trimming out
because there are lots of tree services and the competition drives the
price down.
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of
*cg...@graytechsoftware.com
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Nice, this is probably where we’ll end up. Ideally, we could find a
balance of: we cut, town chips.
*From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>>
*On Behalf Of *Mark Radabaugh
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 18, 2020 7:48 AM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com
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*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Utility Pole Attachment - Tree Trimming?
The vast majority of pole lines are on public ROW which means the
local political entity controls the property and is generally
responsible for the condition of the trees. When we have asked in
the past if the village (insert whatever political entity you like)
cared if we trimmed around lines none had any issue with it. Most
said thanks - they didn’t want to do it.
Mark
On Aug 18, 2020, at 1:32 AM, Steve Jones
<thatoneguyst...@gmail.com <mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote:
thats probably a component of the utility owner. around here there
are contracts that just V out every tree. I never really thought
about who initiates the contracts, I just wished I had them, you
can butcher the hell out of trees with no consequense
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:58 PM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com
<mailto:t...@voltbb.com>> wrote:
What does it normally take to get the attachment agreement?
How much red tape and requirements?
All the best,
TJ Trout
Volt Broadband
AS62809
209.480.3122
Find us on peeringdb! https://www.peeringdb.com/net/20086
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020, 7:17 PM <cg...@graytechsoftware.com
<mailto:cg...@graytechsoftware.com>> wrote:
Does a utility pole attachment agreement typically allow
for any tree trimming in the right of way?
Or, is that something only the utility may do?
-Chris
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