Domestic insulated power cable

[hamdogg]

Evening all, I've recently been to look at a job which consists of taking a sycamore down, but it has a insulated power line that feeds 1 house through edge of the canopy,

 

With this being insulated am I right to say it's still a no go?

 

Cheers

[Joel77]

You can work within 1 meter, and if that's still no good then phone the power supply and they will send there engineers out, thay won't isolate it as there's no need it won't cost you a bean there just there just in case

[hamdogg]

You can work within 1 meter, and if that's still no good then phone the power supply and they will send there engineers out, thay won't isolate it as there's no need it won't cost you a bean there just there just in case

 

 

So they cant do anything anyway? Might as well just crack on wid it

[Joel77]

I Spose there there "just in case" they won't turn off insolated cables, but if the cables was knocked down etc there on site to sort it

[Gray git]

Just put a request in for shrouding and when they come back and say no need your covered but as you will be working about a live powerline I'm fairly sure you have a obligation to notify them.

It's free and unless they require isolation normally very quick.

Also I've had lads turn up to isolated lines for me and persuade them to disconnect the section and drop it which has made our job so much easier and quicker so they get the line back up and on faster.

Fines for damaging the lines are eye watering apparently so go carefully

 

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[woody paul]

They will not shroud were tree work is being carried out, also if you request a shut down you should do that if they decline to do that It's there problem then.

[Mark Bolam]

Just put a request in for shrouding and when they come back and say no need your covered but as you will be working about a live powerline I'm fairly sure you have a obligation to notify them.

It's free and unless they require isolation normally very quick.

Also I've had lads turn up to isolated lines for me and persuade them to disconnect the section and drop it which has made our job so much easier and quicker so they get the line back up and on faster.

Fines for damaging the lines are eye watering apparently so go carefully

 

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[Gray git]

Read that last line carefully.

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Yeh it's a little more involved repairing a powerline than a BT line that's for sure!

 

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[gensetsteve]

Yeh it's a little more involved repairing a powerline than a BT line that's for sure!

 

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Unless you cut through a phone line with 60 pairs then things get a bit more complicated and they get a bit more excitable 😂

[Marc Lewis]

You can work within 1 meter, and if that's still no good then phone the power supply and they will send there engineers out, thay won't isolate it as there's no need it won't cost you a bean there just there just in case

 

This quote is a bit misleading. if you are trained to and have permision from the relevent dno then this is true. If you are not then you should not work within 9 metres or 2 tree lengths, (whichever is greater) of the conductors.