Thread: I'm going to upset the Greenies, possums and cockies on Thursday

ring the council and complain that you were walking along the footpath and you got poked in the eye with a branch as it is encroaching the foot path, and ask who do you sue. They will get on to it quickly.
We had a pavement broken for ages. I rang the council and said I saw an old lady fall whilst she walked along the path. Feed them some BS, Within 24 hours it was fixed

Originally Posted by ATH

I've just taken a 6 metre Norfolk Island pine down. Rescued it from my daughter years ago when it was a small Xmas tree, planted it and watched it grow nicely. Never a problem except for the fronds it constantly dropped but they were easily raked up.
Until this year when loads of green spikey cones grew on it and there were so many some branches broke under their weight.
Then the wind blew and seeds in their thousands blew everywhere! Plenty over the fence for the arsehole that lives there to clear up and even more my side so it had to go, and it's gone.
Next in line for the chop is a really nice NZ Xmas tree, nice but messy and the paving is lifting so when I get the energy and am fed up with looking at it, down she comes and bugger the birds being lost.
A conifer out the back planted in a bad place would get the chop, but the wog next door thinks he's clever spraying it with some acid stuff to kill it so I'm going to leave it.
Just love that constant work in the garden....
AlanH.

I also cut down an save xmas tree, being cleared out at Kmart, Norway spruce, counted the growth rings and realised it had planted it 17 years ago, when my 1st son came into the world, started yo expand a bit too far across and got very high.
Also that wife's tale about copper nails , I hammered copper pipe into the base of a couple of trouble trees, drill a core and put tree liller in and plugged it. did nothing.
I reckon ring bark is the only sure fire and maybe paint tree killer on the open wound?