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I have been asked by customer to take down a sycamore that is growing directly below a power line that has 3 wires(each one below the one above) that look like to me to have no sheath around them. Is this a LV line as it is only going to the house so 240v? The tree grows around the line not touching apart from a couple of very small twigs and then grows above the lines. To dismantle the tree you would have to be under 3m from the lines.

 

I have no experience at at power line work but I think that i may have to ring the power company up to get it switched off for the day or a few hours at least. How long do they take to come out? Will I be able to do it this winter? In pembrokeshire.

 

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Get a shutdown, phone your power company in the first instance, but do get a shutdown whatever you do or anyone else says.

 

Thanks for the reply. I will definately get a shutdown. Do I have to pay or is it just a case of phoning them now and waiting?

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Thanks for the kind offer, slack, but think I will wait for it to to be switched off and do it in a couple of hours that way.

 

Think the utility company would only prune to keep it a certain distance away but not sure?

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Think the utility company would only prune to keep it a certain distance away but not sure?

 

Yeah, I know what you mean, but they've got to do that every couple of years, especially as sycamore grow quite fast. Might be easier to suggest to them that they just take it out. Unless of course that's taking the job from you, which I wouldn't want if I were in your shoes, in which case get the shutdown for it.

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Shouldn't the utility company be taking this down themselves?

 

schhhhhh he's out ta make some ££££ :001_smile: Having said that i had a customer who asked me to dismantle a tree very close to LV but i told them WPD would prolly arrange to do it FOC but they wanted to pay me to do it regardless !

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