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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have this down the street from my house and I asked a lineman about it. He was saying they will never leave this on power lines, just on the telecom lines. The arborists work for the power company, because even thought the utility poles are jointly owned the power company has the highest risk so they are responsible for management.

They will always remove the wood from power lines because wood is somewhat conductive, especially when it still fresh because of the water content. Leaving it on a high voltage line can increase the potential for a short. They don’t bother to cut them completely off the telecom lines because there is no risk of shock but a big risk to line damage. If they damage the telecom line they have to pay high fees to the telecom company for repair and risk creating an outage. Also the lines are designed to bear a certain amount of weight, as engineer have accounted for natural burdens like trees, ice and animals.

Also the wood eventually rots after a few seasons and will eventually fall off on its own.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This could be absolute nonsense.. but it sounds legit.. so I'll believe you internet stranger. Have my up vote.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I was curious if what I had been told had any reference online, a quick search did turn up this post which pretty much says the same:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Worked as a telecom lineman, he's not wrong, but we (our company personally) normally go the extra steps to remove it for aesthetic reasons. Helps when the job is done and the foreman is doing his review walks.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have suggestions:

  1. high voltage. Let the wire burn its way thru the wood.
  2. just replace that section of the wire.
  3. it actually looks kinda stable already. Maybe just sell tickets to view it.
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

sell tickets to view it

capitalism intensifies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure we can take much more intensity tho...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

No matter the solution, sell tickets and build in ad blocks

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would love to watch the beavers go brrrrrrrrriiieeeuuuuuuuuuuu on a jetpack 🤣

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

A very skilled chainsaw operator on a trampoline

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stick a ladder under it with a "Free Firewood" sign.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Takes ladder🪜, uses it for firewood. Mission accomplished, mostly. :-P

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if we would just chuck woodchucks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

A woodchuck would chuck what a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck woodchucks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You move, thats not your neighbourhood anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

More like neighbor wood

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

i dunno i think beavers and woodpeckers would end up not being precise enough and biting through wire.

termites will be the slow but safer option here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Termites are very precise. Eat all the wood until the wood is gone and don't eat anything else.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Send the electrical company to build a parallel power line, then encapsulate the troubled cable in quantum confinement and destroy of with anti matter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Termite paratroopers could work. Attach a brain organoid backpack to each terminate, and let them roll.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You just wait for the next storm. When the lines fall, they will be gone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Flame throwers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Squirt gun with piranha solution

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Organic high-voltage capacitors. Very common in Scandinavia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Drone with a flamethrower

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe it's a beaver drug dealer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pray tell, what were the suggestions?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I'd go with lumberjack on stilts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thoughts and prayers seem to work well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Artificially accelerate the evolution of flying fungi, to break down dat fibrous lignin even faster! Either that or toss a pair of shoes up there so the wood doesn't get lonely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Lignin balls! Gottem!