how many phone lines have you broken?

[JimM]

2 to date. Have plenty wire and connectors to do the repair at the pole boxes now.

Both though had been joined halfway along. "We don't join them" said the BT man. Yeah, right. So explain the perfectly finished ends at both sides of the break then. Both times!

[Joe Newton]

I wonder if the folk that have the gear to fix broken lines, break more than those who don't...

[MattyF]

4 I recon .... Last one I've broken had been so rubbed through that removing the branch supporting it caused it to fail, just coiled it up and left it on the pole.

Had a lime tree quite a few years back that had a junction box and loads of wires through its crown one had grown over a wire and I did not realise ,tip rigged it and trying to pull it up and over in to the only gap in the crown it gave up very easily again due to been partially damage , client was happy the crackling on her line stopped ,I was not with the bill!

Trimming a leylandii hedge with man flue I had a sneezing and coughing fit at the top of the steps using a long reach cutter the fit stopped and I reached up on full revs and cut straight through the wire I had avoided probably ten times before! Just joined that one with a coat hanger coiled as a tensioner mid line, it was still there years later.

Think I did one with a cherry picker basket as well after it got caught raising street trees.

First one I ever did though was fresh out of college and was told to finish off chogging down a big beech stem that the crew had spent the previous day dismantling and it turned in to an embarrassing learning curve.

 

Turned up to an emergency call out in the dark with an ivy covered mess blocking a road ,hadn't realised it had a phone wire through so chipping up it must of ate quite a lot before we found a wire hanging out the back the machine, finished the job and spent a good few further hours in the dark and cold trying to retrieve wire off the fly wheel shaft.

[Adam Bourne]

About 2 or 3 I reckon! But they were crap lines that I could do nothing about! A little like this one.

 

And I always take photos pre work a

Of damaged lines.

 

[Jammydogg]

Only 1 I can put my name to during my career....done a few fence panels tho

[testcricket01]

Not one yet, straight out of college I felled a top out a ivy invested oak which caught on the ivy and caught the line but it didn't break they can take a good hammering before they break!

[Joe Newton]

Not one yet, straight out of college I felled a top out a ivy invested oak which caught on the ivy and caught the line but it didn't break they can take a good hammering before they break!

 

 

I find that it's when you start to think that you push your luck!

[mistahbenn]

Zero because I'm a pro!

[Joe Newton]

Zero because I'm a pro!

 

 

Steady on mate! If that's the criteria then that means I'm a pro too!

 

I don't want to be associated with you professionals!

[bob]

I win hands down

Too many to count 🙈