Bloody conifers

I have a sod of a neighbor who will not trim his conifers (now 9' and
growing fast) council not interested, cutting my light off. (they are on my
east facing back where the sun should come up)
I am too slight to remove them myself.
Anyone got any ideas or a poison before in a couple of years they will be
mature trees.
My back yard is only 20' long and it will be in total shadow soon.
That smug bastard has a garden a mile long and is just using the hedging as
a wind break
Ta>>>

 

Nice drink of battery acid

 

Annette Kurten said:

Leave it alone, it will play a small but important role in fighting off the
greenhouse effect.

 

If he does not cooperate about all you could do is hire someone to trim the
branches. You may trim anything that extends onto your property.
I am not a legal expert of course, so you may want to check your local
regulations first!

 

As the back yard turns to mold? heh heh heh

 

Then he'll have big brown crispy trees that will become unstable
after a while and have poisoned the ground for anything else. I
would persevere with the council, I'm pretty sure they are not
allowed to be over a certain height, I had two the previous people
had put in the garden and they were like triffids, they had to be
removed. Write to them again and in the top left corner write
'Without Prejudice' I generally find those two words on a letter of
complaint or suchlike can work miracles! Not worth keep lopping them
as they grow so fast. You have my sympathy.....

ziggy

 

Drive some copper nails into the trunks(quietly)


Regards Brian.

 

Look at:
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page4672.asp

 

Sodium Chlorate.

Strongest herbicide known to man, woman, cat, dog, mouse, ant, microbe,
politician or Council Officer - in order of intelligence!

Best to dissolve it and water it in when he's out. If he sees the powder on
the soil around the trees he'll realise what's happening and get you charged
with Criminal Damage. Trees do have quiet a large capital value.

Trouble is it poisons the ground for years afterwards - but I don't suppose
you're too bothered by that! )

There's also a law known as Ancient Lights but I think it's more to do with
a new building taking light away from an existing one.

Try going to a Citizens' Advice Bureau or Law Centre or the equivalents
where you are.

If the trees are overhanging your fence and you're in the UK, in law you're
perfectly entitled to cut the overhanging branches back to the boundary.

Hope this helps,

Nemo

PS: However slight you are, you could always hire a chainsaw. They're a bit
noisy though.

 

|>Drive some copper nails into the trunks(quietly)
|>

Agreed, and sprinkle copper sulfate around the base. Had a tree
removed from my place and they placed it around the stump. While it's
basically for stump removal, it can't be good for the tree and it will
give you a warm fuzzy as you spread it around

|>|>> I have a sod of a neighbor who will not trim his conifers (now 9' and
|>> growing fast) council not interested, cutting my light off. (they are on
|>my
|>> east facing back where the sun should come up)
|>> I am too slight to remove them myself.
|>> Anyone got any ideas or a poison before in a couple of years they will be
|>> mature trees.
|>> My back yard is only 20' long and it will be in total shadow soon.
|>> That smug bastard has a garden a mile long and is just using the hedging
|>as
|>> a wind break
|>> Ta>>>
|>>
|>>
|>

 

|>Drive some copper nails into the trunks(quietly)
|>

Agreed, and sprinkle copper sulfate around the base. Had a tree
removed from my place and they placed it around the stump. While it's
basically for stump removal, it can't be good for the tree and it will
give you a warm fuzzy as you spread it around

|>|>> I have a sod of a neighbor who will not trim his conifers (now 9' and
|>> growing fast) council not interested, cutting my light off. (they are on
|>my
|>> east facing back where the sun should come up)
|>> I am too slight to remove them myself.
|>> Anyone got any ideas or a poison before in a couple of years they will be
|>> mature trees.
|>> My back yard is only 20' long and it will be in total shadow soon.
|>> That smug bastard has a garden a mile long and is just using the hedging
|>as
|>> a wind break
|>> Ta>>>
|>>
|>>
|>

 

tight wire around the base of the trunk and just 2 make sure ring bark the
bloody things and paint glyphosate weed killler into any wound

 

Both perfectly correct, should take about 6 months, (from previous
experience *eg*).

 

I would advise investigating *every* legal means before resorting to
vandalizing your neighbour's property. No matter *how* good your
reasons.
At least, try to familiarize yourself with local laws, to see what
such an action may entail. You could end up with a criminal record, and
be subject to fines. You could also find yourself in Civil court; and
ordered to pay the replacement costs; not only for the dead trees, but
for removal and replacement of tainted soil.

 

If you all come to my place, we'll try the lot, then have a barbie in the
sunshine ;-)

 

Souns damn good to me!!!! <BG>

 

How often does he break wind?

Frukc his wife and in bed, ask her advice.

Have a nice one.