HELP - Utility lines next to Stumps & the driveway!

[MossflowerWoods]

last time i had my phone line marked the guy doing it was able to estimate how deep it is based on his instrument readings. or so he said.

I was at work when they were done. Wife was not home either.

David

 

[MarkV]

Why not call the electric company and ask how deep they bury their lines? I would be surprised if you could grind a stump deep enough to hit a primary line personally.

MarkV

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Why not call the electric company and ask how deep they bury their lines? I would be surprised if you could grind a stump deep enough to hit a primary line personally.

MarkV

MarkV,

I am totally avoiding the electricity line.

It is the stupid phone line. I called the "miss utility" and they said it can be ANY depth (good grief!).

I will call Verizon soon...

David

 

[Redneck in training]

I was at work when they were done. Wife was not home either.

David

They can tell the depth quite easy. First they find the line and mark it. Then they turn the detector at 45 deg, find the line again and mark it. The distance between the marks is the depth.

 

[pmetal]

MarkV,

I am totally avoiding the electricity line.

It is the stupid phone line. I called the "miss utility" and they said it can be ANY depth (good grief!).

I will call Verizon soon...

David

I've heard around here that they'll sometimes use a weed-eater to cut the "trench" to lay the phone lines. That should be a good 2-3" down! :laughing: My buddy down the road cut his while grading his road with a back blade.

I need to call Verizon myself and see if they can tell me how deep mine are, as they run right down my road too.

Good luck, man.

 

[LBrown59]

I'm not sure this is the correct place for this post, but here goes.

Finally the Utilities got out here to mark the buried lines. All there is out here is electric and phone.

The #$%^&ing utilities trenched heir lines one on each side of the drive, and on on each side of the loop. The electricity line actually crosses under the driveway to change sides TWICE!!! I want to know who the drunk was driving the trencher...

Regardless, along the edge of the driveway, where the pasture is going in, there is a line of pawlonia stumps that are going crazy sending our runners and making life TERRIBLE. These trees are invasive and fast growing. Think crab-grass & dandelions crossed with an Oak Tree.

So approx 6" off the driveway is the phone line, and within approx a foot is the centerline of the stumps I need to grind (which is also just about the intended fence line for the pasture!!!!

What can I do! there is some rule about within a couple feet all digging must be by hand tools!

These stumps MUST GO!

Do I call the utility and ask them to remove the stumps? or to move the line?

I am not using phone service, but I might in the future, and I do NOT want to break their line.

This stinks.:thumbdown:


Thanks in advance,
David

What gripes me is the Utilities want the right of ways but don't want to maintain them.
In some case they won't even allow the property owner to maintain the property and will interfere with the property owner when he tries to do it.

 

[randy41]

I was at work when they were done. Wife was not home either.

David

the first time they came i was at work too, as was my wife. but i knew they missed the line by quite a bit so i called them back in and i worked from home that day. the phone co sent a contractor the first time. real employee the next.

 

[LBrown59]

I assume that this is your own private drive and these are
1*the phone and electric that feed only your house? If so,
2*don't even worry about the phone. If you cut it.

1*He don't have a phone so the line can't be his house line.
2*so it could b a fiber optic line and if he cuts that he is in for hundreds of thousands of bucks to repair it.

 

[GPintheMitten]

For the phone line, you could dig by hand a ways away from the stumps to see how deep the line is. Then keep the stump grinder above that level.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

For the phone line, you could dig by hand a ways away from the stumps to see how deep the line is. Then keep the stump grinder above that level.

GP,

If I have to that is exactly what I will do.

1*He don't have a phone so the line can't be his house line.
2*so it could b a fiber optic line and if he cuts that he is in for hundreds of thousands of bucks to repair it.

LB,

It is my phone line, it is just not connected (I use all cell phones). It is simple copper, I'm so far out in the booneydoggles they will NEVER run FIOS to me.

the first time they came i was at work too, as was my wife. but i knew they missed the line by quite a bit so i called them back in and i worked from home that day. the phone co sent a contractor the first time. real employee the next.

Randy,

After talking to 4 different people, on two different calls, I finally got a call back from some gal in the same area code who told me she would speak with the local supervisor and explain I needed to know the depth of the line so I could grind the stumps.

We shall see what happens next!

Thanks all,
David