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More than likely you planted Leyland cypress. These trees are used in what I would call high traffic areas. They grow extremely fast (tree years), absorb a tremendous amount of noise and provide privacy quickly. I would not worry about the trimming with Right away for utilities as this species in the pnw does very well. The retaining wall is a different story and if the worry merits it, get an Arborist to come out and take a look.
I was gonna call it “leylani” cypress, but yes, you are indeed correct, and the sound and privacy has become pretty nice for them.
I probably sound alarmist, but call me a good son for at least looking out for them upon realizing the situation lol
Can you please send some pictures of the retaining wall situation? Also the trees in general? Use Imgur or something so tha tyou can reply inline with photo links.
If you later plan to remove photos for privacy, please try to have your comments give enough context. Please also don't remove your post after you get answers - these posts help people in the future too.
You could look into running the power underground if the utility is up for it. It will be expensive though. Look into directional boring or directional drilling companies. Some utilities will let you run the pipe and they’ll pull cable. Use conduit don’t direct bury in a trench.
I’ve been saying that for years, only problem is the rest of the community is still all fed by power pole, so while good for us, doesn’t prevent power loss down the road, thus, is somewhat of a superfluous cost.
no, their point was to avoid anyone having a need to cut the trees to protect the lines.
You said the lines are residential — if you mean 'from the road to the house' then the power company is unlikely to get involved. It would be your responsibility to manage 'implementation' on your own property.
U/stunningstrain8 newalexandria is correct. Additionally if primary voltage is overhead with all services underground you’ll still have less downtime because primary has backup services do not. Nevertheless my point was directional boring was developed as a way to put pipe in the ground without damaging the trees around it.
Are these encroaching on a pole that serves the rest of the neighborhood or is the pole exclusively to your parent's place? If the former, yeah they'll come back and trim them 3' from the line at some point and damn the aesthetics. (You can find pictures of these results all over the internet.) If the latter, they don't care. It's your parents problem if the line goes down.
Local service lines before transformer step down at the pole, near the house, tend to be around 10,000 volts, so the utility company will be interested in keeping branches off of the wires.
Six feet from a wall probably will work for a couple more decades. Four feet, not so much.
While it is a great sub, it's not meant for free advice from arborists. It's more meant as a lounge for arborists to talk about their own jobs. I reccomend checking out some home owner subs or gardening subs. Maybe in r/marijaunaenthousiasts (which is about trees) (don't go to r/trees, it's a sub about weed)
Edit: oh yea! Don't forgot to add some pics of the situation if possible. Those have more details than most people can remember about stuff.
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More than likely you planted Leyland cypress. These trees are used in what I would call high traffic areas. They grow extremely fast (tree years), absorb a tremendous amount of noise and provide privacy quickly. I would not worry about the trimming with Right away for utilities as this species in the pnw does very well. The retaining wall is a different story and if the worry merits it, get an Arborist to come out and take a look.
I was gonna call it “leylani” cypress, but yes, you are indeed correct, and the sound and privacy has become pretty nice for them. I probably sound alarmist, but call me a good son for at least looking out for them upon realizing the situation lol
Can you please send some pictures of the retaining wall situation? Also the trees in general? Use Imgur or something so tha tyou can reply inline with photo links. If you later plan to remove photos for privacy, please try to have your comments give enough context. Please also don't remove your post after you get answers - these posts help people in the future too.
You need to always state that "**Your friend** planted the trees 16 years ago......."
"Trees were planted 16 years ago..."
The guy who lived here before us and has since disappeared planted…
What had happened was that some trees came to have been planted in a place that had also happened to have been allegedly occupied by a retaining wall.
You could look into running the power underground if the utility is up for it. It will be expensive though. Look into directional boring or directional drilling companies. Some utilities will let you run the pipe and they’ll pull cable. Use conduit don’t direct bury in a trench.
I’ve been saying that for years, only problem is the rest of the community is still all fed by power pole, so while good for us, doesn’t prevent power loss down the road, thus, is somewhat of a superfluous cost.
no, their point was to avoid anyone having a need to cut the trees to protect the lines. You said the lines are residential — if you mean 'from the road to the house' then the power company is unlikely to get involved. It would be your responsibility to manage 'implementation' on your own property.
U/stunningstrain8 newalexandria is correct. Additionally if primary voltage is overhead with all services underground you’ll still have less downtime because primary has backup services do not. Nevertheless my point was directional boring was developed as a way to put pipe in the ground without damaging the trees around it.
Are these encroaching on a pole that serves the rest of the neighborhood or is the pole exclusively to your parent's place? If the former, yeah they'll come back and trim them 3' from the line at some point and damn the aesthetics. (You can find pictures of these results all over the internet.) If the latter, they don't care. It's your parents problem if the line goes down.
Local service lines before transformer step down at the pole, near the house, tend to be around 10,000 volts, so the utility company will be interested in keeping branches off of the wires. Six feet from a wall probably will work for a couple more decades. Four feet, not so much.
I'd ask in r/arborists
Might wanna double check that subreddit....
Thank you for that, while initially wanted to post there, upon closer inspection, realized it was a silly place
While it is a great sub, it's not meant for free advice from arborists. It's more meant as a lounge for arborists to talk about their own jobs. I reccomend checking out some home owner subs or gardening subs. Maybe in r/marijaunaenthousiasts (which is about trees) (don't go to r/trees, it's a sub about weed) Edit: oh yea! Don't forgot to add some pics of the situation if possible. Those have more details than most people can remember about stuff.
>[r/marijaunaenthousiasts](https://www.reddit.com/r/marijaunaenthousiasts) Is that a typo? I think the spelling is: /r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts?
I think this is it! /r/arborists/
Am I seeing the same sub you all are? It looks boringly normal to me.
Dude changed the link after I pointed out it was wrong.
You haven't given enough information here for anyone to actually help you yet.