[AJgrn78]

This is just a few miles down my street, we lost internet service but power stayed on... just in case YOU'VE ever felt like you messed up, lol.
I know these farmers too, they're just a few houses down the road.

"A farm tractor towing two farm implements was bound up by utility lines. A disc got caught on what is believed to be a low hanging wire across the road. Amazingly, lines and utility poles did not break. "

Look at the size of that tractor with the rear end completely hung off the road...

 

[trav]

Oops

 

[Herminator]

That’s a bad day.

 

[AJgrn78]

That’s a bad day.

And possibly a big fine...

 

[Mackford13]

Holy man 😲 that's no good.

 

[dodgeman]

It’s been a few years ago and we came home and the road was blocked off west of our house. Got home and the power was off. Turned out my brother and law, who farms, driving a similar rig moved over because a car was coming and sawed off a power pole. I’m a Blawkhawks hockey fan and they had a playoff game that night to. This looks like a similar thing, he moved over and hooked a low wire.

 

[Seasled]

And possibly a big fine...

If it was a low hanging wire, then the utility line company will be on the hook for the farmers loss !

 

[bloodrunsgreen]

Lines are by law to be kept at a certain height above the highest point in the road (normally the center of road due to slope for drainage to sides). This can be compromised by road resurfacing (either chip/seal or new asphalt or concrete that can raise the height of the road and thus change the clearance). Now it gets sticky, because the local authority who writes the road upgrade contract needs to also make sure that such a project notifies parties like drain commission, electrical company, gas company, telephone company, cable companies, school districts who has an interest due to right of way and pole leases, etc. So who let the ball drop? Those will be the ones paying the bills.

 

[WestTexasFarmBoy]

THAT... is totally bizarre!

 

[dodgeman]

There is a piece of disc stuck up in the air. A guess on my part by looking at the pics but he hit the wires off to the side of the road, not hanging over the road, not sure though.

 

[Treefarmer]

And possibly a big fine...

Probably no fine to the operator as at least in Va. the utilities are required to maintain a minimum height of the wire. Cable TV is the biggest offender. They are the lowest wire and heavy so there's usually a lot of sag. They also have minimal voltage so in our area the cable companies seem to have the idea that they don't care too much about the law as long as they have separation from the electric lines.

Treefarmer

 

[Treefarmer]

There is a piece of disc stuck up in the air. A guess on my part by looking at the pics but he hit the wires off to the side of the road, not hanging over the road, not sure though.

It was a heck of a pull to separate the gang from the frame of the disc. I'm amazed that the wires and poles didn't come down.

Treefarmer

 

[AJgrn78]

If it was a low hanging wire, then the utility line company will be on the hook for the farmers loss !

That was what I was thinking when I suggested a fine, the local fire dept wrote the quote about a low hanging line.
You know there was some damage to that equipment, and I bet red paint is as expensive as green paint!

 

[Hagak]

Yep and in most areas the cable companies do the worst job at hanging lines. I have seen places where the person who hung the cable must have thought that the signal wire can double as a guide wire! Or they just say screw it and just free hang the cable from the last termination point and let gravity bring the line to the ground. So my bet is the cable company is at fault.

 

[jdmich]

Guy problem been threw there 1000 times and never caught the lines

 

[SRG]

Phone is the lowest on a pole. Cable TV is in the middle.


Thats a good one there.

 

[Seasled]

That was what I was thinking when I suggested a fine, the local fire dept wrote the quote about a low hanging line.
You know there was some damage to that equipment, and I bet red paint is as expensive as green paint!

Yes , but also injury to the farmer, implement damage, loss of use to both tractor and implement, cash value of crop yield lost due to injuries and or equipment down time and if injuries were incurred and have caused a permanent percentage of disability , causing loss of future earning potential , that would factor in also !

 

[Rule292]

In my neck of the woods I often see phone/cable wires holding up pretty good size fallen trees.

Judging by the carnage to that tractor and those implements those must be million pound test lines he got hung up in!

 

[AJgrn78]

In my neck of the woods I often see phone/cable wires holding up pretty good size fallen trees.

Judging by the carnage to that tractor and those implements those must be million pound test lines he got hung up in!

I don't know exactly what those big 4wd tractors weigh but they have to be in the range of 20K lbs or more.

 

[dj2520]

I don't know exactly what those big 4wd tractors weigh but they have to be in the range of 20K lbs or more.

I think you could double that weight estimate.