Paul,
Sorry but I really got the wrong end of the stick on my original story.
It turns out that the tree and the 11kV lines were on private property, as in a Spur line, leading off from the 11kV lines that passed the property.
There has been a BIG argument over here, for years about easements caused by HV and EHV lines passing over peoples properties.
This whole thing is starting to border on the ridiculous, as in asking people to trim/fell any trees that get too close to any HV/EHV lines.
This is just a recipe for disaster, you know what people are like cutting trees down.
At one time we had a dedicated Tree Crew for this sort of thing.
Just means that us Lineys will get called to more line breaks and the Fire Service will get called to more Grass Fires. [Linked Image]