[Alta_redneck]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

It seems more logical to me to prune or eliminate the trees that could come down on a power line.
And it gives the tree huggers something to do also.

That would be what, every single tree along any street? I'm guessing residents would rather maintain the atmosphere than remove any risk of losing power for a day once in a blue moon.

If you want to cut down all your trees fly at it, I'd prune the trees that are downwind of the direction that your more damaging winds come from, I‘m thinking that would be from the south, I‘d gamble on the rest. And only next to transmission lines. Why would you cut down trees that would only bring down a street light wire ? And I take it you wouldn’t want to spend $Millions to bury the lines. After all, digging trenches would damage the root system and eventually kill the trees anyways.

[BartSimpson]

Scape Scape:

They looked into that for Victoria as well but then you have to look at a service call for a buried line and how much it costs to put them there. The cost just wasn't warrented.

The cost is warranted if you do it right. New York City went to the expense of burying all of their cables after the blizzard of 1888 and has reaped the benefits in reduced interruptions to service (and a beter looking city) ever since.

http://www.virtualny.cuny.edu/blizzard/ ... r_set.html

Heck, can you imagine Spiderman trying to web swing in a city forested with power poles?

[sasquatch2]

Overhead VS buried power lines ia really a no brainer. Maintenance of overhead wire is minimal and except in exceptional instances such as Montreal with the ice storm is not a biggy. Even there, tidying up was quick and new construction fast due to access.

Here in the country we have overhead power lines which occasionally cause outages but telephone is currently plowed in on one side of the road and gas on the opposite. Their presence dictates location of just about any excavation and requires hand digging with in 3 ft.

On the farm, I have some underground stuff but the majority was overhead. Back in the 50's the major difference was the cost of excavation.....that has dramatically changed.

[Wullu]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

It seems more logical to me to prune or eliminate the trees that could come down on a power line.
And it gives the tree huggers something to do also.

Oh that was suggested by the power corp a few years back. You would have thought that they were asking for first borns to be killed off.

I had an old willow tree in yard uproot and I called them to take a look, seeing as how it was into the lines. They saw no problem with that.............. I hired a landscaper I know and he took it down and hauled it away for $200.

[Wullu]

After watching how fast the guys are laying the gas lines around town, I know it would take little time to get at least the major trunk lines underground.

NSPC can do no right in this whiner of a province. Cut down trees that could cause a probelm? No way! So what happens when trees come down on the lines?

69 commetnts and counting

Ref my post above, I don't blame NSPC for not seeing a problem with my willow tree on the lines. After the stink the NIMBYs kicked up a few years earlier, they probably do not want to trim a blueberry bush let alone a tree.

[sasquatch2]

The major problems Montreal experienced was the destruction of main transmission towers.....which no-one has successfully/economically buried yet. Sub-surface New York is a plumbing/wiring nightmare.

In the fall of 1956, we had Hurricane Hazel clobber the GTA and flooded the Holland Marsh.

I recall the high winds and what seemed like two weeks of heavy rain. I recall the Middle Branch of the Thames flooding the bottom of one of our fields. Mega water....Mega trees down.