Agree. I had a big Cherry tree that was dead and needed to come down but it was close to power and phone lines and a fence. I had to climb it and drop the limbs before I could take the main trunk down. I’ve spent weeks planning and what iffing but when I actually got the saw fired up it easy and straight forward
Sounds like a possible squeaky bum time, there cal, braver man than me.
I assume it was not raining that day, nor to humid, and you managed to keep at least 4m from the power lines.
When working near these lines wooden ladders are preferred, instead of metal
Rubber gloves, and shoes with thick rubber soles would be worn.
But normally you would have the power removed before going near them.
But I did have to get close to power lines once as a matter of urgency, and it scared the you know what out of me. Something that health and safety would not allow us to do now.
To be frank I would have had the power removed and the cables earthed before doing what you did. There was a case in the 80s cal were two kids sitting on a wall above an electrified railway line in Kilbirnie street in Glasgow were killed. They were about 3.5m away at the time, but the current arced towards them killing them both when a train went past, I used to walk past that wall when I lived in Shawlands when walking to my work. Sometimes I had a Walkman on, and when I walked past the current interfered with it.
