Soil creep
Hedge cutters can be a bigger risk than the dreaded back-hoe fade. Depending on how cables are buried, soil creep can move them. Then hedge cutters being a big spinning spikey disk can quite happily dig into soil, yoink the cable up and break it. And running hazard tape above the cable is easily ignored. Billing the farmer for damage might be less easily ignored, depending on how the wayleave was granted.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
