Reminds me of a dropwire that went through 18 trees and along the flow of a brook with steep embankments. So I found a better new route off another pole. Knocked on a nearby door to ask if it was their cars parked allround a pole and would they be so kind to move one. Was told in no uncertain terms (quite theatening in fact) that there would be "measures" taken if we tried to access said pole on their property. It was on common ground but turns out that this family were "known" localy and use this common ground as their personal carpark/scrapheap.
couldn't cut and draw the original cable as by now it was tightly zig-zaging through branches. So had to do an interesting bit of what could be best described as giants crochet. Using 6-9m long rods as the needle. I try to leave more slack on drop wire through trees to allow some years of tree growth before it tightly bears up again on the dw. Hadn't seen the sleeves you mentioned Razpag. Are they new over the last 12 months ?
That's an inetersting attititude on the part of the land 'owner' (which i say in quotes as he's evidently not actually the owner anyway.
We have some BT poles on our land, as well as considerable lengths of underground ducting and junction boxes. I didn't think the wayleave agreement allows us to say 'No' if BT want access. In fact in an amergency, I think BT can just walk into the garden unannounced, without notice andwithout even our agreement. I suppose that's little consolation though, if some nasty thug of a householder is threatining to unleash the rottwielers.
It's probably the underground ducting that worries me most as I like planting trees. The wayleave requires me to avoid planting trees over the ducting, but I have no accurate map of the exact path that the ducting takes.
I also worry about rumoured recent changes requiring BT to share their ducts with other suppliers. By and large, I've always found the BT guys to be fully co-operative any time they needed access, and to cause minimal disruption. But I wonder if the same good manners can be expected of whatever other (potential) cowboys are granted access to these ducts!?
