how many phone lines have you broken?

[justin131]

taking the top off an overly stressed branch when I made my back cut the branch sat back much farther than I thought it would bringing the butt of the limb right over the line before it dropped . this is my second phone line be interested to see what the average is.

 

so how many have you broken ?

[Mick Dempsey]

Maybe 6 in all. Some you can just fix with some insulation tape and pliers.

[justin131]

Maybe 6 in all. Some you can just fix with some insulation tape and pliers.

 

wish id thought of that bt are down there fixing it right now god knows how much its goin to cost

[Mick Dempsey]

There's a few threads on here where some guys have talked about owning a few basic clips and joiners for just that. I don't know if it's possible on all bt lines though.

[Gary Prentice]

These 50pcs K2 Connector Signal Transmission for Telephone Line Network Cable Wire | eBay were given to us by a bt engineer. You also need a torpedo like box which, if I remember correctly, takes the strain of the span.

 

Think I've done about three, maybe one every ten years or so.

[leswold]

No phone lines so far but cut a CATV cable while stump grinding. Made worse as one of the lads was showing the customer what trees were available online on the customer's pc at the exact moment. Lol, she still tipped though. It was a free fix by Virgin as it was wrongly routed diagonally across her garden.

[Paul Cleaver]

1 complete down and 2 hanging from the bracket dislodged from the wall - in 25 yrs so not bad really

[breffni]

2 in total one while trying to show of knocking a big top out and the other one with the tip of a conifer branch.

[peatff]

Not tree related but a couple of years ago a mobile crane went along the street opposite us and took 12 phone wires down before the driver was alerted to what had happened.

[Steve Bullman]

1 in 19 years to my shame. Tree had about 8 wires going through it, and I had done a pretty good job of missing everything...the one bit that brought it down was a piece I nonchalantly cut as I didn't think it could do any damage....a small stub about 8" long and about 2" thick