new trimming technique

[Scots Climber]

I am working on it, tougher now days to push the dead weight out of the way. Used to be easier to get rid of the schmucks or stick in the spokes. Simple gravity and cement, now with all this political correct bs it's hard to do business efficient ya know.

Aye, I know how you feel. We have that problem back in the UK, mostly Health & Safety there though.

 

[B-Edwards]

Clearance, not appearance. They probably were not allowed to saw it down, but they still should have cut them two big stubs off. Utility treework is a vital, yet often thankless task.

When I cut R/O I have been cussed, threatend by land owners, and treated like less than by some of the heros who were linemen. It's a tough job and the guys who are trying to do it right usualy get no respect. It sucks to try your best only to be lumped with crackheads and drunks who ruin any respect you might otherwise get. I know during Hugo I almost got killed removing a tree from a line and again during an ice storm. We worked hard and never got the credit the linemem did. Yes I was/am a little jealous of those guys for that reason alone. Some of the hardest workers I know still do line clearance and still dont get the respect they deserve. Now about this tree pictured in the thread who knows who the ultimate idiot is in why it was left like it was, as most here can see it was left wrong.

 

[hokiewheeler]

The tree looks bad and should have come all the way out. The property owner probably wouldn't agree to removal. Maybe they pissed off the guys. Maybe it was one of those foreign companies that doesn't have an english speaking man on the crew. Who knows. I know I used to joke about it when I did permissioning. At the residential office I worked at, for removals they would write remove to low stump on the bills. I used to call it remove to high stump when the owner wouldn't let you cut a tree and you knew they were gonna be left with a spar 12 feet below the lines. I've also seen the sheriff's dept escort the trimmers onto a property when the homeowner threatened physical harm (after putting said homeowner into the back of the car charged with disorderly conduct).