I just knocked down a couple of dead trees. One was near enough to my overhead power line to take it down if that tree fell in that direction. Taking it down was a good choice.

The other was in an old, overgrown fence line about thirty yards from my pole barn. There are a number of downed, dead trees in there and I've been working to pull them out and put them into a burn pile.

My thinking was that I didn't want to provide a home for termites. I remembered having a city rental property on which the local utility came and took down two trees in the easement and just left the wood piled there. I ended up with termites there and in the house. While I couldn't say one resulted in the other, I didn't want to run another empirical test on another property. [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

How great or small a distance is "safe" in such a situation?