how many phone lines have you broken?

[Spruce Pirate]

Never broken one. I've pinged quite few with branches, closer to the line than they looked (you'd think I'd have learnt after the 1st one )

 

I knocked a limb off a neighbouring tree when felling an oak once, the limb fell and pinged the phone line running along the side of the road. It was quite impressive seeing a row of telephone poles wobbling about, but the line didn't break.

 

I had a large Norway spruce go spectacularly wrong once (135 degrees wrong) and pulled the whole phone line down from the poles, but still didn't snap it. I'm not counting it as breaking the line as no-one was cut off.

[Two Acres]

One of my neighbours had a go at a tree on his boudary with a chainsaw and brought down a powerline. We had the cable whipping around on the road and it was making a noise like thunder. Had the police, power company people, road cordoned off, the whole works.

[john p]

Two, and one power line, which was nice , v windy, Lombardy top blew 20 ft side ways

[Mark Bolam]

I'm on about 3 or 4 I think, with lots of bounces and near misses.

 

Also took down a line of connies which had stretched the line so badly it hung touching the ground.

BT tried to charge my old boss for that, he wasn't having any of it.

They are up there with my least favourite companies.

 

 

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[csservices]

Pinged a couple but not broken them, best one was on a job where we were working topside of the road and climber dropped a small branch perfectly on the phone line which then zipping downhill across the road and hit the house the otherwise of the road, at which point the bedroom window opened and the owner asked if we would mind retrieving it 😁

[Gray git]

Once very carefully dismantled a tree with a line in only to have it snap under its own weigh once no longer held up by my tree where it had been rubbing on another tree.

Snapped a few on purpose with dangerous trees as was far safer and quicker to drop it into the bt line than a power line or onto a main road.

Think the best 1 still has to be where I took down a big conifer where the line had been absorbed by a branch so I simply cut either side and left a 8"long 3"across log in mid air, 2years on and I still spot it when I go past 😀

[Spruce Pirate]

Think the best 1 still has to be where I took down a big conifer where the line had been absorbed by a branch so I simply cut either side and left a 8"long 3"across log in mid air, 2years on and I still spot it when I go past 😀

 

Photo's needed please.

[Gary Prentice]

Not one of mine but I'm assured its true. A limb or the tree (can't remember which) hit the line which held fast but put so much tension on the pole that it broke. As it broke a three foot section broke out, cartwheeled through the air and straight through the wagon windscreen.

 

Despite the pole being badly decayed, and to add insult to injury, BT charged the fellers for a new pole:biggrin:

[Gray git]

Next time I pass I'll get 1 for you, think I've got 1 on the pc but would be quicker to drive the 20mile than fire that old thing up!

[PeteB]

Two phones in 17 years but had a couple of sparking 11,000 volt lines every quarter! But that was in the days where we did everything live and had a shut down every other year!