 Violent weather, tornado belt
To sum up treevet's statement,
When you're dealing with the huge tonnages aloft, and the ferocity and forces that mother nature can throw at you......
Ice storms can be wicked. Treevet got an early, wet October snow a few years ago before the trees had shed their leaves, I remember, it walloped you.
We get tornados. My place is reknowned in the Spring with storms that produce downdrafts, just a fierce, vertical downward punch from out of the sky.
Treevet and I live in a setion of the US called the central hardwood belt, it has been here since the beginning of time, and so has been the wildlife.
Squirrels here have been around forever and are rodents and chew whatwever they find novel to chew on. Around here they like electric line insulation, for some reason, and maple and hackberry.
I set a temporary 'cable' fashioned out of 11,000 lb tensile stable braid. Within one month they had chewed completely through it, not just chewed at it. It was severed.
They're like that. Here's a shot from yesterday's pile of brush about to be chipped (although off-topic, slightly). Thes furry buggers are a real and true threat to dynamic systems, and I imagine wherever there are squirrels there would be that possibility. If you have a large stem on the house, the client doesn't care if it was weather, squirrels, your bad splice, ultraviolet radiation.
If the system you install fails, it could come back to haunt you. In fact, it will almost certainly come back to haunt you. |