Yesterday afternoon I went out back and noticed that one of the arbor vitaes which has been threatening to fall over was leaning a bit more than it has been. Last Fall it blew into the power line from the pole to the house, causing an outage. After that, PECO came out and replace the line, running it on the other side of the tree. A few months ago I had the cable drop redone on the other side of the tree, so the only wire that would be affected if the tree fell would be the Verizon line, which is unused since we have Comcast Digital Voice phone service. Since the line was unused but I didn't want it to pull anything off the pole or my house, I cut it yesterday using a pole saw.
Good thing, too. This morning as I was leaving I noticed that the tree fell last night in the wind. Now I need to cut it up and dispose of it. I figure that letting nature take care of it saved me a few hundred bucks compared with using a tree surgeon.
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