January 9, 2008
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WHEN TREES AND WIRES MEET
Our next door neighbors have their TV cable and telephone wires come across our backyard from a pole in the rear corner of our property and pass through the branches of one of our large pine trees. The wires are about twenty feet above our yard and have never caused any problems.
After our recent snow and ice storm, the telephone cable was hanging close enough to the ground to be able to touch it. The wind and the weight of the branches against the telephone wire had caused it to come unattached from their house and it was just laying across their roof and sagging in our yard.
I showed our neighbor the wire, but he said everything was working ok. When I examined the wire, it was running right through one of the branches. The years of the cable and branch being in contact had caused the branch to grow around the cable and never affected his telephone service.
The wire went in here …
and came out here!
Comments (4)
Mmmm… tree porn.
That’s freaky!
That’s amazing. We have a tree at the top of our garden that the telephone wire passes through. When our kids were little it was about 4ft. high, now it’s over 60ft. I must have a look and see if I can match your picture, although I think I would have twigged it by now !
Weird stuff. Cool photo, too. Odd that it never bothered his reception.
That second photo could win a prize. The cable looks likes arms. I see a long face, kind if like John Kerry’s, with a mouth, a nose and an eye. Oh, and that tiny thing sticking out is his ear. Do you see it? Of course, I haven’t had my coffee yet.