tree triming by electrical company (sub contractor)

[oldballs]

I'll take the electric service to me and my neighbors anytime over a fuss about some limbs and stumps. But an honorable tree contractor would probably do the right thing with some communication and I would welcome that too. There are probably some exceptions in respect to the above issues. :2cents:

Over/under growth and the planting of trees without forethought to the growth of the tree just happens to many of us...but electricity is my #1

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Re READ what I wrote.

I read what you wrote. I'd bet a C-note that your letter got laughed at, but then somebody said they had better make you happy or you would be whining about it for years.

 

[Dftodd]

Here, they clean up after themselves when they trim trees. Everything is chipped and/ or hauled off. They don't handle stumps though. That's the land owners responsibility. They usually just trim below the power lines, and any branches on the power line side of a tree. So larger trees tend to be lopsided.

I contacted the power company several years ago to come take some trees down below the power lines so I could remove them since they looked like crud. Replaced with crape myrtles, and dwarf flowering varieties that can be maintained and kept below the power lines for esthetics.

 

[ultrarunner]

Not much left here... way too much liability because the county and city have strict abatement ordinances due to high fire danger.

Not chip piles, logs, branches... all trees must be limbed up to 6' and a permit is required to remove any tree other than Eucalyptus...

One call to the fire department or city code enforcement if in the city limits and the Utility will be noticed and cited if not quickly abated.

 

[tjkubota93]

Here, they clean up after themselves when they trim trees. Everything is chipped and/ or hauled off. They don't handle stumps though. That's the land owners responsibility. They usually just trim below the power lines, and any branches on the power line side of a tree. So larger trees tend to be lopsided.

I contacted the power company several years ago to come take some trees down below the power lines so I could remove them since they looked like crud. Replaced with crape myrtles, and dwarf flowering varieties that can be maintained and kept below the power lines for esthetics.

You are smart. I cannot understand why folks plant trees under lines. Or if they are already there, why leave them lopsided?

I am an electric system operator. Alot of my headaches start with trees. I wish they would cut them back so far that an entire tree falling would not touch the lines.

I guess if they did that, I wouldn't get any overtime. So plant trees under the lines, I gotta make money some how!

 

[drssg]

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I might not have the full perspective, but that picture looks like some branches left in an unkept area. After a couple months of growth, they wouldn't be visible. I would find that acceptable.

When they trimmed in my area, they left much worse in overgrown areas. There is a section near the drive that I keep mowed, and they cleaned up that area better.

 

[sandman2234]

They dug the ditches out in front of my neighbors house yesterday, or at least up to the driveway culvert. She has been trying to get them to clean them out past her driveway, because when they do it, they always stop at the end of my property. The brush and stuff they dug out from around her power pole got piled at the corner of my property for the yard waste people to pick up, but it isn't cut to the correct size, so it will be interesting to see how long it takes for them to haul it off, or if I have to start making phone calls to get the city to fix the screw-up the city made.
David from jax

 

[ultrarunner]

It's really a sad commentary with work well done is the exception...

 

[Sigarms]

I read what you wrote. I'd bet a C-note that your letter got laughed at, but then somebody said they had better make you happy or you would be whining about it for years.

When a man tells me he's going to do something, I expect him to do it.

Personally, I don't care what they think, just as long as they do what they said they were going to do when I agreed to let them on my property.

Did they have to agree to keeping the area clean? Don't know, but they did.

 

[Dan Hunter]

This spring, I was contacted by the contractor for the powerlines about access. My property is rugged with 300' of elevation change (I'm right on a butte) and use it for recreation and didn't want the place savaged. Through several conversations, they made it clear to me that though some of my traees under the lines were considerably older than the 10 year cycle that they could no longer risk fines for not maintaining the easement.

They used something like an excavator with a snow blower from **** on the end that ground up trees. Some places were so inaccessible that trees were cut with chainsaws. What they were taking out were largely cedar. They logged and stacked the oak. I'd initially considered using a landscape rake and grapple to pick up the chipped litter but now grass is returning between the chips so I'll leave it.

I bought the place knowing there was an easement. I knew the day would come that someone would come to enforce the easement. I just hoped it'd happen after I was gone. Generally, the subcontractor was professional and respectful of my land staying out of the sandplums and generally leaving little footprint.

If I had set out when I acquired the property to clear the easement myself as a first priority then they'd have had nothing to do. Much of it we did clear but other areas were just hard to get to and well below the lines. We'll keep it up from now on.