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I played dumb. When they asked me what I was doing I said "tree guy stuff". That got me a bit of a chuckle. They seemed much less grumpy after I explained why I did what I did, but they made it clear it was a no no.

Chris if I stuffed coal up my ass this morning I would be selling you diamonds tonight. Especially when the utility truck pulled out and the guys got out to see what the hell I was doing.

To be honest I'm a little disappointed that I did it, if that makes any sense.

Well it's done and over with. For what should be obvious reasons I didn't take any pictures of it, but I did get busted by a Duke truck driving by. They didn't make a big stink about it but they didn't seem exactly thrilled either. Hopefully I won't hear from them later. Went really smooth, I...

I can't. I don't need to lift anything but the span from the tree to where I could park a Crane means a 100 ton machine, of which there is only one in the area that does tree work. It would be weeks before I could get it, and this tree is coming down tomorrow.

The money is right on this one. A 100 ton Crane would be $3,100 a day here with a one day minimum. I couldn't get the Crane in time so I'm charging about that to skyline off the power pole, plus the actual removal cost. Should be an ok paying job if all goes well.

Thanks for the input guys. I think I'm just going to do it. I need to go up and make just a few spear cuts and then I can drop the spar in the yard.

I'm more worried about pulling the pole over than I am about blowing a switch gear or a transformer or anything.

Yeah I don't think I can slap the wires together, but I don't plan on shaking it unless the tree falls while I'm in it.

It looks like 7500 volt from what's on it for insulators.

The primary and secondary are about 10 foot apart. I don't think I can slap them together.

I won't be rigging from it, I can bomb the whole tree. Just tied in to it.

It looks like a guy wire, then above that utility on a guy, then secondaries, and a primary on top. There is a transformer with two Service drops. I want to tie in just below the secondaries at about 45 '. If I do that I will have to really load the skyline to get my tie in high enough, which is...

So not going to talk about the legality of using the pole, in my experience forgiveness is much easier to get than permission. My question is how hard can I crank down on this thing without tearing it up? There is a down guy exactly opposite of where my skyline will pull from. It looks like a...