The phone line club

[geoff]

I did one removing Ivy from a wall,oops!

[Brushcutter]

I've bounced stuff off but never broken one:thumbup:

[armchairarborist]

I have a friend who is an ex BT engineer who can repair or drop lines while work is done and re-instate afterwards.If anyone ever needs him drop me a PM and i'll pass it on.

 

is your mate called peter? i use a guy called peter (ex bt engineer too) to put lines back up, we snapped one that was frayed through to the copper wire from rubbing on a spruce branch, as soon as i climbed the tree it just twanged away but was over a factory roof so was fun to fix. another one got snagged by a branch from a beech and was left mashed up with inner wires poking through the sheath but still worked:biggrin:

[kev7937]

I've cut at least one whilst hedge cutting but haven't bettered the guy i used to work with who dropped a log on one and ripped the fascia off the house .

[waz77]

is your mate called peter? i use a guy called peter (ex bt engineer too) to put lines back up, we snapped one that was frayed through to the copper wire from rubbing on a spruce branch, as soon as i climbed the tree it just twanged away but was over a factory roof so was fun to fix. another one got snagged by a branch from a beech and was left mashed up with inner wires poking through the sheath but still worked:biggrin:

 

He's known only as Ginner... like the stig,no one knows his real name.

[armchairarborist]

He's known only as Ginner... like the stig,no one knows his real name.

 

some say he can install bt lines in his sleep and that he follows waz77 round for work, all we know is he's called the ginner:thumbup:

[WeeDee]

I dropped a spindly branch on a line and it just hung there - almost touching the ground but at least not nipping the line.

Then the groundie comes along, gives it a good pull and the whole damn thing goes twang!

[armchairarborist]

we had one like that this week but it stayed put, had a large stepladder so managed to untangle it but surprised it didn't snap as it took two of us to lift it over the wall

[scottythepinetree]

Don't need an engineer to fix phone lines. How do I know that? I'm not in the club, I'm the chairman!!

[Mesterh]

Cut straight through loads when on the power lines.

 

Not snapped any on a domestic.

 

Yet....