how many phone lines have you broken?

[TIMON]

Heard of one firm snapping a line and the end got fed into the chipper..

(No.. It wasn't us )

I've pinged a couple.

[rapalaman]

Cut through one with a longreach hedgetrimmer

£130 to Open Reach for repair

[NickinMids]

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

 

 

Aren't these the ones that always catch you out

[Ty Korrigan]

I won't own up as I've not that many fingers:blushing: but we do try to disconnect the lines from the poles wherever possible and sometimes throw a line over the 'lines' to pull them clear a little.

Some lines are badly attached to old houses and it is the hook in the wall that gives away.

It's no fun when the line has actually been absorbed by the branch!

The French are pretty lax about their 'reseau airien' as they call over head lines.

To the point that recently a chateau we are working at found (or rather we found) that it's electric supply had just be casually laid on the surface through the woodland to an out house as a previous owner didn't want any unsightly poles in the garden.

Ty

Edited August 6, 2015 by Ty Korrigan

[Lee Winger]

3 all in the same tree, hit a phone cable with the stump grinder knocked out and entire close.

[Paul Cleaver]

I was climbing for a guy a few yrs ago - he had a pole mounted chainsaw and was crown lifting - he managed to cut a bt bundle cable with it - bad day! - the bill to him was £500.00

[farmer rod]

I was climbing for a guy a few yrs ago - he had a pole mounted chainsaw and was crown lifting - he managed to cut a bt bundle cable with it - bad day! - the bill to him was £500.00

 

I caught one in the hedgecutter and had a great deal of difficulty unwinding about 30 metres of it from the flail head as the whole tractor was + 60 volts.

 

The track I was on lead up to a large house, so I thought I had better let them know, the old dear who answered the door provided me with the perfect comedy moment, she thanked me and said she would call British Telecom straight away

[Stephen Blair]

Around 6 I think, when I was daft enough to play the hero and not insist they get BT out.

BT used to say just cut them and we will fix it later

[Paul Cleaver]

I caught one in the hedgecutter and had a great deal of difficulty unwinding about 30 metres of it from the flail head as the whole tractor was + 60 volts.

 

The track I was on lead up to a large house, so I thought I had better let them know, the old dear who answered the door provided me with the perfect comedy moment, she thanked me and said she would call British Telecom straight away

 

[htb]

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

 

Done the same about 10 yrs ago, still swaying in the wind now