Dennis , back when I did line clearance, we sometimes had quite a few off road spans to trim. Late in the fall one year, we had just trimmed like 6 spans and everyone took a climbing break for lunch. As we sat there eating our lunch and looked back where we had trimmed, there must have been a half a dozen deer eating all the trimmings we had just built up on the ground, eating all of next years tender buds off the branches. The deer either could smell the fresh wood cuts or knew the sound of our saws running,,, that there would be food there. Amazing how smart the deer are. You'd think running a saw the deer would high tail it out there,,, no sir,, they must have been watching us the whole time. They we're out eating about an hour after we got done with the furthest span away from us.