High voltage line or ground wire ?

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I have two lines coming up the driveway pretty sure top is the power(high voltage) that leads into the transformer. Bottom is likely ground that is going to yellow pole and into the ground . I should have trimmed these down with pole saw last season but got too busy . now there's a couple touching bottom wire . I was thinking of jumping on the trailer that has rubber tires and cutting these limbs from there. I dont see a shut off at the road for hydro to turn this off coming up driveway. does anyone have knowledge weather that would be a ground or high voltage on the bottom.
 

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I can not see well enough in this picture to give you an accurate answer, but I will say that around here it is a free service for the utility company to trim any trees around the wires that go from pole to pole. You just have to call them and report the issue. At that price, it's hard to justify taking the chance (needing to insulate from the ground by standing on a trailer). Should anything conductive (tall weeds, broken trailer wire, tow chains...) make contact from the ground to the trailer those tires will not do anything for you.
 
That lower line is a neutral, and SHOULD not be live. HOWEVER, as a former electrician, I have seen them become live in certain circumstances. DO NOT get near that line, call the power company and report it, and let their line clearance guys take care of it. They have the equipment and training to do it and live through the experience.
 
I look at situations like this and think to myself which came first the trees or the lines? And if the lines came first then I ask myself who's the genius who planted the trees under the lines? "They were cute when they were little." Or " I didn't know they were going to get that big" Or " The landscaper said so."
OP call the utility company or find somebody who knows how to handle the situation. This is no place for the untrained.
 
flushcut said:
I look at situations like this and think to myself which came first the trees or the lines? And if the lines came first then I ask myself who's the genius who planted the trees under the lines? "They were cute when they were little." Or " I didn't know they were going to get that big" Or " The landscaper said so."
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We are running into a situation where we are mandated by the municipality to plant a row of trees under low power lines, but their mandate requires us to plant trees that will grow to be problematic in a few years. So we plant, and we prune, and deal with the problems that will arise when they do.
 
Reach said:
We are running into a situation where we are mandated by the municipality to plant a row of trees under low power lines, but their mandate requires us to plant trees that will grow to be problematic in a few years. So we plant, and we prune, and deal with the problems that will arise when they do.
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Engineers
 
Reach said:
We are running into a situation where we are mandated by the municipality to plant a row of trees under low power lines, but their mandate requires us to plant trees that will grow to be problematic in a few years. So we plant, and we prune, and deal with the problems that will arise when they do.
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Shake ma head.
 
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