OT - trees and phonelines

This windy weather is playing havoc with my internet, and my router
seems to keep dropping the connection. Since this happened last time
it was windy too im guessing its down to my phone line..

My phone line runs from my house over to a pole. The pole is on the
other side of a big green area with trees in. My phone line runs right
through the middle of a tree and is getting a good tugging in the
wind.

Who should i be chasing up to sort this out? Its a bit too high for me
to go and chop some branches off myself, else i would do that.

I live on a (mainly-ex) council estate. Should i be contacting the
council, BT or my adsl supplier?

any advice so i can get this sorted with as little hassle as possible?

My line hasnt totally broken and the dial tone doesnt seem to ever go
anywhere but my internet is crap,

"Tom Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

> I live on a (mainly-ex) council estate. Should i be contacting the
> council, BT or my adsl supplier?


BT , they will probably thank you as it'll save them doing it in a blizard.
I think your ADSL will be sorted on BT anyway.

Lee D

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:54:48 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This windy weather is playing havoc with my internet

wanna borrrow one of mine? I have a spare.

> ...
> Who should i be chasing up to sort this out?

BT - good luck :|

> ...
> My line hasnt totally broken and the dial tone doesnt seem to ever go
> anywhere but my internet is crap,

Be warned - domestic aDSL has an SLA that isn't worth the bandwidth it
takes to download.

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:54:48 +0100, Tom Woods
<[email protected]> wrote:

>My phone line runs from my house over to a pole. The pole is on the
>other side of a big green area with trees in. My phone line runs right
>through the middle of a tree and is getting a good tugging in the
>wind.

BT will have a right to maintain a wayleave for the line and this will
include the right to cut branches away from it.

AJH

Lee_D wrote:

|| "Tom Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
|| news:[email protected]...
||
||| I live on a (mainly-ex) council estate. Should i be contacting the
||| council, BT or my adsl supplier?
||
||
|| BT , they will probably thank you as it'll save them doing it in a
|| blizard. I think your ADSL will be sorted on BT anyway.
||
|| Lee D

Depends whose land it's going over and whose the tree is. We had a similar
problem with a tree (ours) brushing the phone line between the BT pole
(outside our gate) and the house. BT had one look and said it was up to me
to sort it. They could do it, but it would be chargeable. Change of rules
a couple of years ago, apparently.

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:47:40 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Lee_D wrote:
>
>|| "Tom Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>|| news:[email protected]...
>||
>||| I live on a (mainly-ex) council estate. Should i be contacting the
>||| council, BT or my adsl supplier?
>||
>||
>|| BT , they will probably thank you as it'll save them doing it in a
>|| blizard. I think your ADSL will be sorted on BT anyway.
>||
>|| Lee D
>
>Depends whose land it's going over and whose the tree is. We had a similar
>problem with a tree (ours) brushing the phone line between the BT pole
>(outside our gate) and the house. BT had one look and said it was up to me
>to sort it. They could do it, but it would be chargeable. Change of rules
>a couple of years ago, apparently.

If the tree were in my garden i would quite happily sort it out but it
isnt. Its on a 'green' type of area which is on the other side of the
road. Since its a council estate, im guessing belongs to the council.
they mow it.

Tom Woods wrote:

|| On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:47:40 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
|| <[email protected]> wrote:
||
||| Lee_D wrote:
|||
||||| "Tom Woods" <[email protected]> wrote in message
||||| news:[email protected]...
|||||
|||||| I live on a (mainly-ex) council estate. Should i be contacting
|||||| the council, BT or my adsl supplier?
|||||
|||||
||||| BT , they will probably thank you as it'll save them doing it in a
||||| blizard. I think your ADSL will be sorted on BT anyway.
|||||
||||| Lee D
|||
||| Depends whose land it's going over and whose the tree is. We had a
||| similar problem with a tree (ours) brushing the phone line between
||| the BT pole (outside our gate) and the house. BT had one look and
||| said it was up to me to sort it. They could do it, but it would be
||| chargeable. Change of rules a couple of years ago, apparently.
||
|| If the tree were in my garden i would quite happily sort it out but
|| it isnt. Its on a 'green' type of area which is on the other side
|| of the road. Since its a council estate, im guessing belongs to the
|| council. they mow it.

Ah, OK. Sounds like it's up to the Council. Good luck!

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:55:49 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>||| Depends whose land it's going over and whose the tree is. We had a
>||| similar problem with a tree (ours) brushing the phone line between
>||| the BT pole (outside our gate) and the house. BT had one look and
>||| said it was up to me to sort it. They could do it, but it would be
>||| chargeable. Change of rules a couple of years ago, apparently.
>||
>|| If the tree were in my garden i would quite happily sort it out but
>|| it isnt. Its on a 'green' type of area which is on the other side
>|| of the road. Since its a council estate, im guessing belongs to the
>|| council. they mow it.
>
>Ah, OK. Sounds like it's up to the Council. Good luck!

my biggest tree is the 10ft high conifer hedge which ive been putting
off scalping all year

Tom Woods wrote:

|| On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:55:49 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
|| <[email protected]> wrote:
||
|||||| Depends whose land it's going over and whose the tree is. We
|||||| had a similar problem with a tree (ours) brushing the phone line
|||||| between the BT pole (outside our gate) and the house. BT had
|||||| one look and said it was up to me to sort it. They could do it,
|||||| but it would be chargeable. Change of rules a couple of years
|||||| ago, apparently.
|||||
||||| If the tree were in my garden i would quite happily sort it out
||||| but it isnt. Its on a 'green' type of area which is on the other
||||| side of the road. Since its a council estate, im guessing belongs
||||| to the council. they mow it.
|||
||| Ah, OK. Sounds like it's up to the Council. Good luck!
||
|| my biggest tree is the 10ft high conifer hedge which ive been putting
|| off scalping all year

Do it NOW! I was sold a Leylandii "shrub" once, 4ft tall, guaranteed to
grow to no more than 10ft. When it reached 35ft we decided we'd been conned
and cut it down. Lotsa work, which might have been handled easier if I had
not been so lazy 3-4 years before, when it was still reachable from a
stepladder*.

*I've got a stepladder. It's really nice, but I wish I knew my real ladder.
<hat/coat/gone>

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:34:37 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Do it NOW! I was sold a Leylandii "shrub" once, 4ft tall, guaranteed to
>grow to no more than 10ft. When it reached 35ft we decided we'd been conned
>and cut it down. Lotsa work, which might have been handled easier if I had
>not been so lazy 3-4 years before, when it was still reachable from a
>stepladder*.

I've done half of it (the half that i share with my neighbours) but
the other half just goes onto the road so it doesnt annoy anybody!

I was actually going to get the landy going, fit my hardtop and then
just stand on that to cut it as it is easier than the step ladder!

>*I've got a stepladder. It's really nice, but I wish I knew my real ladder.
><hat/coat/gone>

Tom Woods wrote:

|| I was actually going to get the landy going, fit my hardtop and then
|| just stand on that to cut it as it is easier than the step ladder!

That's about 75% of the reason the roof rack stays on the Disco.

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