Questions about power lines...

http://www.water.ca.gov/regulations/docs/California PUC General Order 95 excerpt.pdf

 

Yea in Il. Ag equipment is allowed to 14 feet tall I believe with no permit
So you hook and go. Like Rontinio stated there is a reason we charge the rates we do. You are very lucky it was just a cable line you got busted for
Tear out a fiber optic line and you would be working for free for a very long time
Plus the fines for overheight no permits leaving the scene of an accident. Yea it is one

 

15 yrs ago? one of my customers was hauling his Cat 936 loader on his tag along trailer near Big Sur, CA and hooked a heavy telecom cable. Pulled the pole down on the cab of the loader & did some damage. He sued the telecom folks for having their line out of compliance as he proved he was legal height & their line wasn't. He won. Got a new cab & lost time for the machine. I carried the above chart with me after that.

 

I hauled a combine for a farmer once. I was right at 13' 6" but had to go down some country roads to get it to his farm. When I got to the farm, I was dragging two phone lines behind me. I don't know where I hit them but two people were without phone service. Never heard from anybody about it.

A friend of mine lives down a country road and a moving van came by and took out his electrical service. The live wire fell across the hood of his new Ford truck and burn up pretty much all the electrical on it. The power company had to fix his truck.

All overhead lines around here are supposed to be a minimum of 17', there's a lot that aren't.

 

I believe 15' is the minimum here, but some are certainly lower than that.