Dead tree, sheathed cable, platform?

[TheHungrySquirrel]

So I did a job recently that has a dead sycamore as one of the trees to be removed, did all the other works and left this till last.

 

It's stone dead and crispy as hell, grabbed a 4" limb at the collar and it snapped. Also it has a single sheathed power cable about 50cm away, now originally ukpn were going to give me a 1m clearance cut but have no just said they will shroud the cable [emoji19]

 

My issue is, platform that close to a cable? Surely I need 1-2m clearance from boom to cable?

 

 

[skyhuck]

If its shrouded why do you need clearance?

[Ian Clarke]

If they are happy with what needs doing only needs a sheath then you will be ok. You could request one of their engineer's are on site with you. 

[TheHungrySquirrel]

Just worried about platform/cable interface.

I know those sheathed lines are ok to bounce the odd limb off but don't want to pop it off the pole

[Mark Wileman]

depends on the voltage, I imagine its LV as its sheathed? The NO should let you know if its safe or not to use a platform, might just have to set it up so you working on max boom so there's no chance of hitting the cable.