Tree Hugger's Meltdown

[dmccarty]

I think Duke Power waits for the trees to fall on the lines. I see too many trees that are overhanging the power lines, some dead, and the trees do not get removed. I have called about dead trees over hanging the road, an obvious danger to the public, and those have been removed. However, too many trees I see will come down in a storm and nothing is done about it. Maybe the land owner is responsible but really the power company should deal with the issue since the lines are at risk. I know we have lost power a couple of times because of trees falling in storms that should have been removed, or trimmed, years prior to the outage.

Back to Tree Huggers.

When we timbered our land, the loggers told us someone called the sheriff on the logging operation. I am pretty sure who did it but it was a who cares. I am sure the loggers and deputy had a good laugh at the call and had a catch up conversation on what they and the deputy had been doing since high school.

 

[notaz3]

I clear out any diseased or hazardous trees on our property, leaving the rest to be trees.

 

[Jstpssng]

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Bruce

It needs another sign... "Mobile home for spotted owls.

Here too. The power line easement requires the property owner to keep all hazards away from the lines, and if the property owner doesn't do it the power company will. They are reasonable I have a walnut and an apple (volunteers) growing under the power lines and as long as they stay below the wires the power company is fine with them. If I let them get to line height, the power company will prune them at the roots.

Here they like to leave apple trees because of the growth habit, they just keep them trimmed well below the wires. It creates a "screen" so that people don't see the open swath beyond.

 

[BnRidge]

Around here, the power companies don’t ask permission to trim trees in the right of way. They just do it with gusto and a particularly inartistic flair.

Here they send out a notice that they will be trimming. The electric company easement was signed in 1936 giving rights to place poles and enter properties for upkeep and maintenance. The county sheriff would be called if yayhoos started causing trouble.

 

[Omega Woods]

Here they send out a notice that they will be trimming. The electric company easement was signed in 1936 giving rights to place poles and enter properties for upkeep and maintenance. The county sheriff would be called if yayhoos started causing trouble.

They mailed a notice that they were going to be trimming the whole damn area and away they went. They putzed around for years and did a half-a553d job mostly. The new trimming contractors mean business. They are professional and polite but they mean to clear those trees away from the lines and that's what they are doing.

I'm not complaining, I'm glad when the power stays on after the storms.

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

I think Duke Power waits for the trees to fall on the lines. I see too many trees that are overhanging the power lines, some dead, and the trees do not get removed. I have called about dead trees over hanging the road, an obvious danger to the public, and those have been removed. However, too many trees I see will come down in a storm and nothing is done about it. Maybe the land owner is responsible but really the power company should deal with the issue since the lines are at risk. I know we have lost power a couple of times because of trees falling in storms that should have been removed, or trimmed, years prior to the outage.

Back to Tree Huggers.

When we timbered our land, the loggers told us someone called the sheriff on the logging operation. I am pretty sure who did it but it was a who cares. I am sure the loggers and deputy had a good laugh at the call and had a catch up conversation on what they and the deputy had been doing since high school.

Here in WV it is all on the power company.
I have had the same thing happen except it was the Forestry Divison I was cutting my own timber select cut..I know exactly who called , I just act like nothing happened I consider the source and I never said anything and they still talk to me. The Department of Highways was mowing the road banks (secondary roads ) and mowed some wild berrys on the road bank next to her house , she jumped in the car wearing a t shirt and panties and chased the department of highways down so she could give them He**

 

[RidgeTopWVA]

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My question to a tree hugger is do they mow their lawn or eat? If so they're murdering plants. Only difference between a blade of grass and a tree is time.
For every tree here I cut I plant two.

 

[sd455dan]

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Cant find it now but remember way back in the 1980's (maybe it was from from 'Life in Hell')

Cartoon is a circle of the earth with a single tree and man with axe in hand starting to swing

caption:

"I want to cut down the last tree on earth with my very own axe."

We have pretty bad beetle infestation locally killing a lot of the Pines, almost better to cut the trees and burn them to slow the beetle population than let the bugs win.

 

[Captain Dirty]

Of course I hug trees. How else to set the choker?