Rant: low hanging trees on city streets
Getting around city streets is usually no problem for us. Driving on a street with lots of trees and you can see where larger truck trailers keep the branches trimmed usually around 13 feet 6 inches. ...
Forum Discussion
Generally, somewhere in the law or in the road comission rules, it will explain how trees SHOULD be trimmed, and who is responsible (city, County, State, Homeowner) NOTE that this can vary street by street and even block by block.
THUS I won't try to explain who is responsible to you.
USUALLY the rule is
16 feet above surface of road starting 3 feet OUT (House wards) of the edge of the road
So if the road is say 25 feet wide, that would be 15.5 feet from the center line.
Very few residential streets are so trimmed. Very few campgrounds as well.
Something to pass on to your campground manager. (related)
I have seen this twice.
A tractor, like a farm tractor, with an articulated arm, like a back hoe has, only mounted on the SIDE of the tractor, this arm also did not swing "Side to side" (Front to back) like a back hoe arm but it could go out and in, and the "Elbow" at the top was neat.
On the end of the arm was a common BUSH HOG (THey make it) and it could be set flat so as to reach across a ditch, angled to reach down in the ditch, turned straight up and down (The 3 feet back) or even inverted (The 16 feet up)
Very neet, no ladders needed. Just a chopper truck for the debris.
THUS I won't try to explain who is responsible to you.
USUALLY the rule is
16 feet above surface of road starting 3 feet OUT (House wards) of the edge of the road
So if the road is say 25 feet wide, that would be 15.5 feet from the center line.
Very few residential streets are so trimmed. Very few campgrounds as well.
Something to pass on to your campground manager. (related)
I have seen this twice.
A tractor, like a farm tractor, with an articulated arm, like a back hoe has, only mounted on the SIDE of the tractor, this arm also did not swing "Side to side" (Front to back) like a back hoe arm but it could go out and in, and the "Elbow" at the top was neat.
On the end of the arm was a common BUSH HOG (THey make it) and it could be set flat so as to reach across a ditch, angled to reach down in the ditch, turned straight up and down (The 3 feet back) or even inverted (The 16 feet up)
Very neet, no ladders needed. Just a chopper truck for the debris.
