The power company removed and gave me all of the trees that where in danger of touching the lines. If I was home when they fell them, I would have asked to drop the tree in question.
And as for the power lines, i know all of the Information on the lines. This tree is no where near hitting the lines. You could have asked instead of saying I didn't know. Thanks.
I wanted to learn. No one even offered to come and look or nothing.
Thank you.
Your are still been ambiguous?
"The tree is no where near hitting the lines". ?????
You said "they felled all trees that were in danger or touching the line. In my experience its usually a prescription of 10 to 18ft on a '12kv to 60kv'line. So just because they didn't trim it,it doesn't mean if you fired that tree straight at that line would it hit? Or come within Limits of aprapproach (LOA) I'm saying.
My questions were legitimate. do you know how many KVs? Do you know the LOA? And if you cut a tree within limits of approach and it was heading for the conductors then would you know what to do? How to exit? What do you usually do? hop? Shuffle?and how far would you need to get to saftey?
Or would you stand there with your feet together? or apart is mabye better?
Guess you know it all, hope you don't blow your arm off or your dlck off like what happend to a guy up here.
We haven't even got to the falling part yet.
All I said is "Oh so you don't know"? I would bet 6 months wages you don't know that stuff . A little bit of satire & you cant take it. There is no dying in timber falling. Oh no thats not true there's plenty of dying. There's no crying in Timber falling! So you could have got a little more knowledge. You want to go and do the most dangerous job in north American with little experience. Your dealing with a danger tree, powerline or not, anyway, which gets me exited and I inquire about the powerlines and you get pissy.
Well I get pissy when a guy figures he should be able to do my job because he's ran a saw for a long time. (Not to say you have)Ive been alive a while to but it doesn't make me a **** star. If a guy ever smarted me off I was trying to show..well I wouldn't be showing him anymore. I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one that feels that way.
I am a **** star though...lol
Look I would have been happy to do it for you if I was there free of charge.
Don't mind me, I'm harmless. I have fell some big unstable wood on remote live wire heli portable , And I've not only broke the insulators droping the conductors, I had about a couple of polls leaning good.
Mind was not on task,I shouldn't have been there with the things that just came about Im my live. I got fired from BC Hydro got suspended from the CUA and fired from my company all in 2 hours and made one big boom.
I remember It been about 11:00 am in November 2002 in Prince Rupert BC. Close to SE Alaska. The frost had just melted and everything was dripping wet. It was still foggy which makes a good chance to arc before contact with the line.
To top it off I cut myself into a potential grave as its was 100ft widening per side and I only had the front strip left which allows a buffer acting as a saftey net from tree hitting the line but I was digging my own grave
As my escape looked like a bomb went off. It wasn't Merch or salvage sadly enough(too political) as its some of the most beautiful wood. very old Yellow cedar and white wood it was a wet bog.
I discussed it with the CUA and decided we would rope the ones left as they were sketchy, another mistake As we planed the work but I didn't work the plan.I'm boasting now..lol Anyways so that was a triple fase 25 kv line (25,000 volts) the way electricity works is if you have your legs apart you become the conductor so up to 75 kv I believe you would need to be 33ft from that stump. Hop or shuffle but never seperating your feet. Well that wasn't an option so as soon as that tree slowly started to go directly for the line I
Ran like a grizzly bear over that trap,took a quick look back and estimated the time I had left to run before I needed to stop with my feet together. The last was a huge jump and landed with my feet together in a big hole with wood up to my neck then watched the fireworks. I didn't make the best decisions with the knowledge I had but just think if I didn't know what to do in that case?...at least you know this stuff, thats good.
