Deer Stand in Transmission Tower

[JakeBrake]

I have a similar high power transmission line through my property. The line was installed many years after I had bought the property. A wholesale power transmission company obtained a "Certificate Of Public Convenience" from the state. This is not the same company that provides power to retail customers in the area. This places the full power of the law behind the wholesale power company. they used eminent domain procedure. I could have argued with them, but the only argument is how much they would pay for the right of way, not whether or not they can have the right of way. The power company has a lot more lawyers and money than I have. The amount they paid was about four time the going rate per acre. So, If I went to a jury trial in county court in a poor, rural county, the outcome would be in doubt.

I can fence off the R.OW. and do anything with the property that does not interfere with the power lines.

I have had to remove a couple of trespasser deer stands (on the ground) from the property. People seem to think that power line R.O.W's are public property.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm calling BS on this one. While it sounds like a crazy idea, it doesn't make any sense to put a blind that high up in the air. And know deer hunters, I can't believe anybody went to that much effort to get the wood all the way up there.

Eddie

 

[deerseeker001]

I agree Eddie 30 feet would be two high.We have then 12/15 feet.

 

[woodchuckie]

I could see these views through the trees and using a 15X zoom you can see a power line pole. The power co. had a problem with buzzards roosting on the cross member and the poop collected on the slanted insulators underneath. It caused a short in at least one pole so the got these plastic pipe and slit them and lowered two men to the cross member them lowered the pipe for them to fasten and came back to let them climb back in. They did this to every pole between Birmingham and Demopolis Alabama. I figured that would be Hazardous duty pay.