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Old 02-09-2018, 03:48 AM posted to rec.gardens
Martin Eastburn Martin Eastburn is offline
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Default Gauging the strength of an old tree

I had dealings with power company in CA on trees. They don't care if
the wire is threatened. If you mention the pole might get ripped out or
it might fall, they will be there to protect the pole.

Poles are property. They are listed in their books. Wire is expendable
and you are paying for the wires. If you think not, add service to
somewhere
and you will pay wire charge up-front and with higher rates. ugh.

If the pole is there and if the tree or large hundreds of pounds of limb
are to come down on the wire, it might yank hard on the pole and
endanger it...

Good luck.

Mulberry is a somewhat long lasting tree (many sub-species) but when it
starts,
it goes. It is a fast growing tree, meaning soft/light strength limbs.

Martin

On 8/28/2018 5:18 PM, Frank wrote:
On 8/28/2018 4:51 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 8/27/2018 4:38 PM, bob prohaska wrote:
Â* Tapping on the buttress roots and the trunks suggests
theÂ* is mostly solid, with a decayed core.


A decayed core means your tree is already seriously compromised.Â* I
would have it removed immediately.


I would remove it too.Â* Since it threatens the power lines the power
company may do it gratis.Â* Just happened to a friend but power company
would not remove it until it fell since it would be cheaper.Â* It was in
his next door neighbors yard and hit by lightening knocked part but did
not cause outage.Â* It damaged my friends fence.Â* The power company
removed all of the tree and fixed the fence.

Also sometimes an insurance company will have it removed if it might
cause more damage than it costs them to remove it.