close call with a tele.pole guide/support cable

[LBrown59]

I think guy wires should be outlawed.
If they would use stout er poles and pole bracing a lot of the guy wires could be eliminated.

 

[Billy_S]

This has been an enlightening post. I just got a BX2230. I have a pole, with a guy wire, in my yard. I absolutely never thought of the ROPS catching it. I have mowed once. How I avoided it, I have no idea. Must just be enough clearance. Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( This has been an enlightening post. I just got a BX2230. I have a pole, with a guy wire, in my yard. I absolutely never thought of the ROPS catching it. I have mowed once. How I avoided it, I have no idea. <font color="red"> Must just be enough clearance. </font> Anyway, thanks for the heads up. )</font>
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With a guy wire there is never <font color="red"> enough clearance </font>. At some point along it anything will get caught on the wire. This includes everything from the ROPS on a tractor to your neck on a lawn tractor.

Have you read the thread I started on guy wires?

 

[JoeinTX]

Years ago I was mowing with a 2705 pulling a 7' drag shredder. It's only slightly wider than the tractor itself. I was operating in "small tractor" mode and decided to make some close passes around a telephone pole in the field I was cutting, just like I would on the little Ford. Well, I forgot about the axle extensions hanging almost 2' feet out on each side. As I made my first pass the tractor suddenly lurched toward the left and I heard the crunching of wood.....and then it hit me what the problem was. The pole budged slightly before I could stop, back up and see the nice little jagged gouge I have carved into with the extension /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. The power co-op came out and straightened it back up, but didn't wind up replacing it.

 

[copperhead1967]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font>[color:"blue" class="I have an issue with charter cable on this very thing right now.
Seem like these outfits just slap one end of the wire on the pole and the other end to a screw anchor in the ground with no regard to the safety of the landowner or anyone else living around them.

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actually operating a big tractor without paying attention is a lot more dangerous than a down guy.
there is a right of way that all utility companies have. either with the property owners who owned the property when the pole line was ran or your local municipality. actually your doing company a favor by mowing the grass on the right of way /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
down guys are a necesary evil, kind of like taxes. nobody wants them but everyone wants the services those poles carry.
yeah I work for a utility co if you haven't guessed yet /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[jnv73]

Unfortunately, down guys are a necessity with overhead pole line construction. Depending what and how much is on a pole you could be talking a couple thousand pounds between spans. Guys can have tremendous amount strain on them. I have seen poles snapped off because guys have been hit or severed. I know they are a pain to work around, just try to be safe.

 

[BlueRidge]

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I think guy wires should be outlawed. )</font>

Yeah, THAT's always the best answer to a small problem. Pass a law.

It just wouldn't do to leave people free to choose between being careful or paying a price, now, would it?

 

[LBrown59]

there is a right of way that all utility companies have. either with the property owners who owned the property when the pole line was
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But they could show a little respect and cooperation with the property owner rather than being so blatantly belligerent with them.
Ruddiness is never acceptable.

 

[LBrown59]

there is a right of way that all utility companies have. either with the property owners who owned the property when the pole line was
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But they could show a little respect and cooperation with the property owner rather than being so blatantly belligerent with them.
Ruddiness is never acceptable.

 

[LBrown59]

<font color="brown"> I think guy wires should be outlawed. </font>

Yeah, THAT's always the best answer to a small problem. Pass a law.

<font color="red"> It just wouldn't do to leave people free to choose between being careful or paying a price, now, would it? </font>
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<font color="red"> That's not the problem; the question is why infringe on the property owner any more than necessary? </font>