tree triming by electrical company (sub contractor)

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

1 - Well, if my expectations are too high, exactly how should they do better?

They shouldn't leave a mess, but if you think you can dictate how high they leave the stumps, you are deluded.

2 - If someone keeps coming onto my property and makes a mess and leaves it that way, I have no qualms going to jail over it.

At the end, you'll be out a significant amount of money, and the mess will still be there.

And if you play your cards right, you'll be a felon out of the deal, with all the lovely benefits that go with it.

Really smart.

If you think you are impressing anyone, well....

I doubt however it would be on boob tube.

It will be if somebody on the scene decides to video it and post it, and you won't have anything to say about it.

 

[Sigarms]

If you think you are impressing anyone, well....

Honestly, I don't five a flying squirrels butt on impressing anyone.

Very few things I'd be willing to go to jail over. This would be one of them. I get the fact that the electric company has the right of way, they don't however IMO have the right to make and leave a mess.

And FYI although I don't think I can dictate how high the stumps should be, 8 stumps SIDE BY SIDE about 10' apart shouldn't range between 1' to 4' tall and every size in between, added the fact that the logs left shouldn't range in between 3' to 10' or so.

Just had a farmer friend over and asked him about this issue. He said it's normal for the subcontractors just to cut and leave everything laying. So apparently it's normal that they just leave what they cut. To me, that's unacceptable.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

I wouldn't like it, either, but I'm not stupid enough to go to jail over it.

Some photographs and a letter to the power company? Yeah, I'd probably do that.

 

[Sigarms]

Some photographs and a letter to the power company? Yeah, I'd probably do that.

Did that. They know what my expectations are.

The way I view it, you leave a place the way it was when you came, no worse.

I get the fact that the men are hourly working, but if you can't take pride in your work, don't do it and find something else you can take pride in.

 

[TemporaryKubotaOwnerMark]

Did that. They know what my expectations are.

Yeah, and because you are so over-the-top about it, you got dismissed as a nutcase.

 

[tjkubota93]

Around here, they haul off everything they cut or put it at the curb in areas that the trash service will pick it up. I would want the stumps cat down to the ground.

 

[GAFarmer2]

Did that. They know what my expectations are.

The way I view it, you leave a place the way it was when you came, no worse.

I get the fact that the men are hourly working, but if you can't take pride in your work, don't do it and find something else you can take pride in.

After reading everything you posted Sig, my advice to you is if you feel this strongly about the issue, get a lawyer involved who is familiar with ROW easements in your area. We are not legal experts (or at least I'm not , and we have no idea what the rules and regulations are. Most areas vary, as I'm sure you've already figured out.

It's expensive, but I'd you truly feel this strongly, it's the best way to go in my opinion.

 

[Sigarms]

Yeah, and because you are so over-the-top about it, you got dismissed as a nutcase.

Re READ what I wrote.

The ultility employee who came to my house agreed with me. They are coming back to clean it up.

Did find it interesting talking with my fried that it seems accepted around here that the tree companies just leave everything laying and no one complains.

 

[stuckmotor]

Up until around 30 years back the right-of-way crews chipped their debries and in my opinion, did a good job. When I moved to a new property they left a terrble mess on the side of the hill where I live. I can hardly stand on parts of that hill. The neighbor, now dead, complained and over the years my son and I managed to get their right-of-way in check with machetes etc. I dare not let it grow back up because I don't want the right of way crews back. At our property in the country, they've been spraying in my pasture with who knows what and killing trees on their right of way. If I could go off grid and get the lines off of my property, I'd seriously consider it.

 

[Soundguy]

One reason that I don't buy property with any easement for a powerline! If I am paying taxes and payments on the property, and they want to come onto it and do anything, then they better do it "my way" or there is going to be a problem!
Can you say that I am stubborn?
David from jax

Tree trimming can happen even without an easement.

On my detached farm property, electric service runs down the street in front of my and my neighbors properties. to be exact, it's on the opposite side of the street. and our properties are 'strips' extending out and away from the road. every 2 property strips is a pole opposite side of the road. from there the power company drops a pole on or near the dividing property line of 2 properties and feeds power to both properties from that pole. In most cases, peoples farm buildings or houses are at least 500' back from the road, so another pole or 2 are dropped down the line till they hit your power meter.

There is no recorded easement on our properties.. but any trees in the area of the lines DO get trimmed back.

So you can for sure have tree trimming and NO recorded easements.