No worries man everyone here already knows it anyways, everyone here should neg him for this because its all he does talk cap then whine to the mods about everyone else... he is a punk.
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No worries man everyone here already knows it anyways, everyone here should neg him for this because its all he does talk cap then whine to the mods about everyone else... he is a punk.
Carburetorless
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It's probably just bad timing, due to the all the recent storms, they're likely up to their eye-holes in storm damage.
Carburetorless
ArboristSite Guru
Talk "cap"; What are you calling for close air support? You're not even taking fire. Sorry, no support available, your target.
No storms in my area. That is an east coast problem right now.
KCPL is just being lazy. They are trying to make sure they don't spend any extra money that the tree services could absorb. They won't even do a service line drop to a house without going through this inane process:
1. Tree trimmer calls dispatch & requests a line drop.
2. KCPL takes ten days to send out a tree supervisor to determine if a service drop is necessary.
3. After ten days go by, tree trimmer is supposed to hear from the tree supervisor to see if his tree qualifies; presumably a schedule is set at KCPL's convenience to get the line dropped.
4. ...I don't know what happens next. It has been over ten years since we have managed to get them to do a line drop for me.
When the service lines are a real problem, we just cut a branch off, hang it up real high on the wire, then notify them of the electrical hazard. Then they send someone out within the hour.
About ten years ago, they would set an appointment if you gave them two days lead notice. Then your only problem was getting them to keep the appointment.
KCPL is just being lazy. They are trying to make sure they don't spend any extra money that the tree services could absorb. They won't even do a service line drop to a house without going through this inane process:
1. Tree trimmer calls dispatch & requests a line drop.
2. KCPL takes ten days to send out a tree supervisor to determine if a service drop is necessary.
3. After ten days go by, tree trimmer is supposed to hear from the tree supervisor to see if his tree qualifies; presumably a schedule is set at KCPL's convenience to get the line dropped.
4. ...I don't know what happens next. It has been over ten years since we have managed to get them to do a line drop for me.
When the service lines are a real problem, we just cut a branch off, hang it up real high on the wire, then notify them of the electrical hazard. Then they send someone out within the hour.
About ten years ago, they would set an appointment if you gave them two days lead notice. Then your only problem was getting them to keep the appointment.
beastmaster
Addicted to ArboristSite
I did a job Tue. that had the primary's right up next to the trunk of a tall pine. It took a month for them to schedule a power drop. They had to send out notices to all the people that would be effected. I was able to swing 80% of the branches and lowered a few I wasn't sure of. The power was off all day from 9:00am tell 7:00pm. They had two bucket trucks and a big wig in his pick up there all the time. Probably 5 guys just setting around. I did have one limb go a stray and bounce off the dead primary lines, shaking them up a little, and had the Big wig come over and inform me that even though there was no power going to the lines, the grounds were still connected and if bounced enough could still be conductive if they were to touch a live wire further down the way from the drop. Not sure what he meant, but I did get the tone and was a lot more careful.
fearofpavement
Trying them all
Regarding wood power poles, North America is one of the few places that I have been that uses them. Most countries I have been to (a lot) use either steel or reinforced concrete. So I think that the reason we use wood pine poles is because they are cheap and readily available, not having anything to do with the cellulose structure within.
802climber
ArboristSite Operative
Sounds like they had just the hot offline where you were working, so that if the hot and neutral were to bounce and arc together a little ways up the line, the neutral would become hot where you were at. Neutral could be hot with backfeed anyway. For example some ******* running a generator during the power outage could dump a deadly amount of amps into that neutral (ground).
Just this winter I had I large limb fall on my service line and it looked like it could pull down my service line from the house to the main. I stayed away, I had the all the equipment to remove this limb from the line since this is one of things I do for another utility, but this wasn’t my companies property and as much as I would have like to helped those guys out I knew it wasn’t my fight I’m just a customer at that point and things needed to go it's course. It was really hard wondering if that large limb were going hanging on the service line would pull every thing down from the house.
A crew arrived 8 Hours after I called and removed the limb, no problem. They had numerous other things to take of care of before they came my way, but they made it and three guys pulled it down.
Long story short, call your local electrical utility for trees and branches on power lines don't tempt fate.
A crew arrived 8 Hours after I called and removed the limb, no problem. They had numerous other things to take of care of before they came my way, but they made it and three guys pulled it down.
Long story short, call your local electrical utility for trees and branches on power lines don't tempt fate.
