Roadside tree felling

[milkloss]

Morning All,

We have an old knackered ash tree on the verge and it's looking dodgy. Ordinarily we'd just stand in the road and stop the traffic and pull it into the field to sort out. The problem is that there's an uninsulated three phase power line on the field side that would catch it. The lines power the house (different ownership On paper but farm and house under same management) but not the farm which has a meter off a different line and the nearest pole to the tree is in the farms field, wayleave status is unknown currently.

I'm asking what the best way of getting the tree down with minimal cost and hassle if possible. It's highly likely the tree will give up in the next few years.

I would assume the power company would do this upon negotiation of the wayleave for the pole?

Advice appreciated.

 

[7610 super q]

If it's a " natural " tree, the power company should fell it for you. Western Power won't tackle Leylandii, and tell you to employ a trained arborist......which sounds expensive.

 

[davidroberts30]

any arborists about you could ask to take it down and they have the logs as payment?

 

[milkloss]

If it's a " natural " tree, the power company should fell it for you. Western Power won't tackle Leylandii, and tell you to employ a trained arborist......which sounds expensive.

Thanks, it is a natural tree. The next problem is getting hold of someone in the power company!

 

[milkloss]

any arborists about you could ask to take it down and they have the logs as payment?

Not sure they'd want the hassle..... partly over the road one side and alongside the power lines the other. One branch would be impossible to cut without falling onto the lines.

probably be a bit of a widowmaker too.... she's a bit rot in the middle.

 

[grainboy]

any arborists about you could ask to take it down and they have the logs as payment?

Ask a Arborist to take down roadside tree, near power cables, for the firewood,
YOUR having a big laugh,
Probably £750 plus and the wood,
Do you do anything for a load of logs ?

 

[Hesstondriver]

probably calling the power company as a 'concerned member of the public' rather than land owner may help you.

 

[theboytheboy]

SSE arranged road closures and all the paperwork when we had some that needed to come down. This was with the power on the other side of the road. No cost to us except we did arrange a winch and pay our guy to fell it onto our land.

Its in theirnterest to sort it, as if they don't and it comes down in an uncontrolled way, they have to deal with a power cut (probably in a wet and windy night).

 

[chaffcutter]

Tell them its likely to fall on their power line, that should get them out to do it. Western Power seem to be monitoring all the lines round here, they are after access to do some constantly it seems.

 

[teslacoils]

Two big trees that had grown into the road and around the telephone cables. I paid £600 for the highways designated contractor to remove them both to the ground and dispose of all the waste. Village location so the £££ was worth it to avoid the yacking of the locals about cutting down trees. They were sh!t trees causing problems, so best plan was to pay to pass the sh!t on.

 

[Richy12]

any arborists about you could ask to take it down and they have the logs as payment?

They will say it will have to be climbed £800+ a day, traffic management £600+ a day and labourer to chip and man the lines £200 a day.

Best bet as mentioned, I've been for a walk and seen a tree in a precarious position

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Just get yourself a man cage for forklift a couple of people to stop the traffic if any as you drop it down in sections onto road side

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Just get yourself a man cage for forklift a couple of people to stop the traffic if any as you drop it down in sections onto road side

I think you will need

Risk assessment

Method statements

Highways notified

Traffic control company to carry out the road closure management

Council tree officer notified to see if a TPO exists

 

[jonnieboy]

I think you will need

Risk assessment

Method statements

Highways notified

Traffic control company to carry out the road closure management

Council tree officer notified to see if a TPO exists

Yes to all this because nothing goes wrong with jobs starting with the word " just "

 

[shumungus]

Ring power company and report tree as a concerned dog walker. If they chose to sort it out and take it down now let them go ahead. If they don't wait till it falls down then they sort it if its on the powerlines and roads agency sort it if its on the road.

 

[davidroberts30]

Ask a Arborist to take down roadside tree, near power cables, for the firewood,
YOUR having a big laugh,
Probably £750 plus and the wood,
Do you do anything for a load of logs ?

When I answered he said the lines would catch it,then later said the lines were near through the branches
f**k the chainsaw work

 

[Doing it for the kids]

any arborists about you could ask to take it down and they have the logs as payment?

they tip them here for free, such is their value

Just get yourself a man cage for forklift a couple of people to stop the traffic if any as you drop it down in sections onto road side

high risk on public roads, how busy is it.

Guess it will traffic lights and cherry picker so £1000, at least in these parts.

as others have said, I would ring a member of the public and try that

 

[robs1]

Any tree on the edge of a road is an insurance claim in waiting, we had a tree that had several branches looking dodgy over a road, luckily for us the council wanted to resurface the road so while it was shut we cut them off.

 

[roscoe erf]

Morning All,

We have an old knackered ash tree on the verge and it's looking dodgy. Ordinarily we'd just stand in the road and stop the traffic and pull it into the field to sort out. The problem is that there's an uninsulated three phase power line on the field side that would catch it. The lines power the house (different ownership On paper but farm and house under same management) but not the farm which has a meter off a different line and the nearest pole to the tree is in the farms field, wayleave status is unknown currently.

I'm asking what the best way of getting the tree down with minimal cost and hassle if possible. It's highly likely the tree will give up in the next few years.

I would assume the power company would do this upon negotiation of the wayleave for the pole?

Advice appreciated.

is it a busy road

 

[milkloss]

is it a busy road

Not too bad. B road, couple of cars every five minutes. We could hold the traffic up for 15 minutes without causing too much issue.