Qualified line Clearance question...

[PFirebird]

Hi All,

Question about line clearance and minimum approach distances (MAD). Suppose you have a qualified line clearance guy at a job, looking at a small crab apple branch 6" away from the house service drop, cable or phone line. According to minimum approach distances table (from TCIA, ANSI), even if he's qualified line clearance, he'd have to stay over a foot away from it- and cannot trim that small branch. What do you do?
Do you tell employee to disregard training and MAD's and trim it anyway?
Do you walk away from the job over a small branch like that?

Thanks, Pat.

 

[jefflovstrom]

When you say "suppose you have a Qualified Line " guy, are you saying you do?
Because if you do, he knows that answer.
Jeff,

 

[PFirebird]

Yes, we do, a few.
We can either not trim that small branch 6" away from service drop, or call the utility to drop line (which they may or may not do).
Neither seem practical, especially with all the training.

 

[rtsims]

We treat service drops as a "no contact". The typical residential feed anyway. We trim around them often. Have them dropped if need be.