Reply #30: I know just enough Spanish

[doodadem]

to be dangerous, after classes in high school, and 3 years of living in Calif. now. And yes--PGE has sent guys to my remote ranch before, with no identification, no way to explain who they are and what they're doing. I've found them just wandering around my place before, freaking my horses out. In the area we live, that's a good way to get yourself killed. And yes--I know when I'm being called a crazy bitch in Spanish.
PG&E has a habit of hiring sub-contract companies like this, and then giving them NO supervision. (See my other post below about the Asplund people). It's not just Asplund, I've had run-ins with several different companies here, contracted to do various things. They take the attitude that we can come on your property and do whatever the hell we want. When they run into someone like me, they get really pissy. I've had them go touring cross country, driving heavy trucks across wet pastures, tearing them up. I've had them do the same around my front gate. I've had them actually hop across my locked gates into my yard, and take a weed wacker to landscape plantings.
Furthermore, we live in an area of people like survivalists, etc. As I said, remote, backcountry in the mountains. Some of these folks shoot first, and ask questions later. When we first moved here, there were several shootings of trespassers, that ultimately ended up getting a sherrif's deputy killed.
Moral of this story--you don't go messing around on someone else's property without talking to them and making sure its ok first. Doesn't matter what kind of easement rights your company has. And yes--they do totally butcher trees unless you are right there to make sure they don't. We bought this ranch because it is heavily wooded and relatively untouched. Beautiful. No one is going to mess with that without me being right there, supervising. As I mentioned before, we finally got them straightened out--they don't come here without an appointment now, and usually with a PG&E supervisor in tow.