Farmers Against Power Poles

[biglentil]

FAPP

Lets get serious and put pressure on the invasive species the power pole. I hate em! I wont sleep till they are all underground 2 feet deep.

[Klause]

That's one thing Manitoba Hydro got right... All power poles are in the right of way. Here in Sask they drew a line from yard to yard and put up a line. WTF?


We have a half that has a high tension line running one way... ok.... But then has 2 more regular lines running criss cross... What a pain at night with a sprayer or the drill.

[westernvicki]

Absolutely, if we are serious about the environment & safety they need to be buried.

[Partners]

We have 1 quarter that has 9 poles, running in 2 directions at angles..Total nightmare..But the good news is that the crew will be there next week to bury the line...Going to watch, and have a beer in celebration...

[biglentil]

They are nasty creatures. Waste time, waste fuel, cause overlap, dangerous, a refuge for noxious weeds, leak power into atmosphere, they rot off, burn, tip over, lines break. With vibratory plows and insulated wire they are obsolete tech.

[fjlip]

Some lines have been moved to edge of road allowance, hope to live long enough to see ours moved there! What a STUPID idea to run lines 400' into the fields!

[freewheat]

What about the near constant power outages whenever there is a bit of a storm? Lightening strikes, trees falling on them. We have third world power along with third world cell service.

We missed the last go around of burying the lines by 2 measly miles. Thankfully because of where I live at the end of nowhere, I have none to deal with except 4 on some rented land. But most neighbors have many, and they are maybe 60 feet into the fields.

[blackpowder]

What was the reasoning back in the day?
Our REAs put all in road allowance.

[farmaholic]

We are lucky, our power lines got buried a long time ago and land right next to us didnt, we were on the edge. We have 3 poles to work around on 16 quarters and some in a small pasture along the same line.... they are 3 phase along a highway and would also like to see them moved to the edge of the highway right of way as well, there are stretches where they are next to the highway right of way but not past us. Lucky we have none of the large transmission lines running across us. Seem to see lots in oil country.

[farmaholic]

Anyone get paid for inconvenience or weed control, etc. for having to work around them...we don't. Old easements probably never allowed for it.