Roadside tree felling

[steveR]

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

ROFL!!!!

 

[Highland Mule]

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.

Early one weekend morning, just after it's been a bit windy. You're just tidying up what mother nature did, aren't you?

 

[steveR]

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

Correct. Budget on 1500+

 

[steveR]

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

Call their Incidents helpline. Should be on your last Bill...

 

[Highland Mule]

Just Googled it.....
Seems like any tree on private land is the land owners responsibility to sort it. As said above, maybe an anonymous call might be the way to do it. I'm surprised on elf n safety grounds this is landed on the farmer. In this part of the world, trees are hacked down to ground level before they even think about reaching the cable, usually after a helicopter inspection.

Whose job is it to trim trees near powerlines?

Learn who is responsible for trimming trees that are too close to powerlines and who you can call for help.

www.westernpower.com.au

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Check the web address - that's Western Power Australia.

 

[shumungus]

If the tree is the landowners responsibility then allegedly the quickest/cheapest/easiest way to sort it is 6.00am on a Sunday morning with a 15 ton digger a chainsaw and a couple of mates in hi-vis coats.

 

[7610 super q]

OK......tried Googling Western Power (UK) .......and didn't come up with much. What about this.........

tree cutting| Northern Powergrid

Information on vegetation management, tree trimming and tree cutting

www.northernpowergrid.com

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[Bobthebuilder]

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

Is it a main road or back road with very little traffic Done plenty on our back roads but main road will be different, probably a council job that will take years to organise and get the correct licenses by then the tree will probably have fallen down taking power line with it

 

[milkloss]

Thanks for all the comments folks. Right or wrong I’ve contacted them for a response..... pics below

Sorry they’re all angles under the sun...... turned the fcking phone round like a steering wheel and none of them ended the right way up!

 

[vantage]

I’m amazed that the network operator hasn’t done something with that tree, Western Power around here are very proactive about that sort of thing, hence why we rarely get a power cut.

 

[Pigken]

Electric board should be willing to do the work. It looks close enough from pictures to be in danger zone. And main trunk would flatten line if goes over. Which they would not want. Would think they taje it down.

 

[teslacoils]

Have you put the red dot of death on the trunk? Round here that would indicate the council have condemned the tree and you're about to get a phone call to take it down.

 

[milkloss]

Have you put the red dot of death on the trunk? Round here that would indicate the council have condemned the tree and you're about to get a phone call to take it down.

we don’t know who gave it the dot of death. It appeared about a year ago and heard nothing.

 

[teslacoils]

we don’t know who gave it the dot of death. It appeared about a year ago and heard nothing.

Highways mark them that way as unsafe / needs assessing round here.....

 

[betweenthelines]

Not a good idea to put this in the public domain. OP has acknowledged the tree is unsafe and will be fully liable if it injures anyone or causes damage.

 

[cb387]

If a tree is between the fence and the road (within a few feet of the road) is it my responsibility or the councils?

 

[betweenthelines]

Responsibility of whoever owns it/the land it's on.

Council may own the road but they don't usually own the adjacent land