Neighbours Tree

pipex36 · 15 Sep 2012

After years of trying to persuade my neighbour to allow to replace our boundary fence she finally agreed.

I got quotes and made arrangements for the fencer to go ahead.

Part of the work entailed removing and replacing 5 concrete fence posts. I agreed to remove them but all other work work to be completed by the fencer.

After a full days graft the posts were out and gone and all areas tidied up, job complete except that the cangoeing had loosened the soil around the roots of my neighbours 40 foot Hawthorne tree slowly fell over across her lawn.

I had great difficulty in explaining the mishap to her. It cost me and extra £150 to get the tree removed.

big-all · 15 Sep 2012

is the post aimed to be advisory

a cautionary tale

or did you have another idea in mind

please share it with us

big-all · 15 Sep 2012

aaahh my fault didnt read the section it was in

lucky it wasnt on a building or a person but so ds law after all your efforts to be helpful and neibourly

Agile · 3 Oct 2012

It seems correctly sectioned to me!

Only question that comes to my mind is why the OP did not cut it up as a DIY job with a £39 B&Q cheap chainsaw?

Or why he did not hoist it back up and hold it there with a stay wire!

Tony

Agile · 3 Oct 2012

Reminds me of when I was charged with lighting a Chinese lantern at a friends dinner party.

This was about a meter high and had a burning oil flame at the base and functioned as a hot air baloon.

Once lit we held it up for a couple of minutes and then it reluctantly rose up about 10 feet, was blown along 15 feet and then gently landed in the neighbours garden!

A few minutes later the neighbour came out to see what was burning in his garden. My friend called out to him and explained what it was and he took the hint, being watched by about 15 diners, and lifted it up and relaunched it and it then climbed to about 200 feet and drifted off into the distance.

Donkmeister · 4 Oct 2012

Agile said:
and it then climbed to about 200 feet and drifted off into the distance

where it promptly set fire to a farmers hay-shed!

They're pretty things but you have to wonder about the sanity of basically sending fire out at random via the air. It shouldn't land until the fire's gone out, but there's no guarantee!

Wonder if the kango trick will work with my neighbour's ash... 40 feet and growing, blocks the sunlight but can't help looking at it thinking "Mmmm, firewood!".

Wand33 · 5 May 2015

http://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/litter/chineselanterns

maltaron · 5 May 2015

Following Donkmeister's post, I had a similar thing recently. Some years ago an elderly neighbour planted a Acacia tree in her garden. She was assured by the supplier that it would grow to 15 feet! After several years it was 60 feet high and still growing. She deciding it would have to come down as it was taking all the goodness from the soil and casting leaves every where. Unfortunately she passed away before the said tree was removed. It took 3 years to convince the new neighbours to take it down, but it went 2 weeks ago (at a cost of £1,500) and I now have enough firewood for at least 3 winters and a lot of hard work logging it.

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