Neighbours & trees.....

Coats and Kennards used to hire small wood chippers,

happy to come and tow one in for you and help out if you need it, assuming its near where your forum location has you listed.

by the by...

if thats his new fence and it is as it looks with the bottom of the fence lower than the ground and looking like it needs to be back filled... I dont think thats entirely kosher and the council may have something to say..

and I thought you said he just had to trim a few branches.. I know greenies that would call that effort a major deforestation that would have consequences on a global warming scale.

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

Coats and Kennards used to hire small wood chippers,

happy to come and tow one in for you and help out if you need it, assuming its near where your forum location has you listed.

by the by...

if thats his new fence and it is as it looks with the bottom of the fence lower than the ground and looking like it needs to be back filled... I dont think thats entirely kosher and the council may have something to say..

and I thought you said he just had to trim a few branches.. I know greenies that would call that effort a major deforestation that would have consequences on a global warming scale.

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Thanks but the last time I hired from Kennards I put Worksafe onto them and all the mulchers were all removed to be sharpened and the staff properly trained.
If you get someone in to do the job with a big mulcher it's $200 per hour. So by stacking the branches neatly and all the same way round it's not much more than an hour to do the job.

Getting a big mulcher/ chipper to where the branches are isn't possible so hence the SIII shorty towing them out on a trailer.

I noticed one of the regular Tawny Frogmouths in the trees this morning so they haven't been scared off by their habitat being decimated.


Colin

Trees?!!
No problem with my neighbor, we're both affected by a MASSIVE council planted gum tree on the nature strip in front of his house. Tree is about 45 years old now, my original next door neighbor (now deceased) warned council at the time about planting a gum. They said to him at the time, "Oh no worries, it's only a small one, 12-15', well it's now 70/80',...AND GROWING, and the leaf drop is HUGE, and there are large branches overhanging neighbor's property. Got council to come around, they "trimmed" it!!!...what a joke,...can hardly notice what they've done. Got ém around a second time,...one of workers said, Oh we can come back in a couple of years & trim it again!!!.....waffled on about damaging the tree, wind flow through it,..nothing about my rights at all, didn't wanna look at photos, branch drop damaging cars, leaf drop in 6 DAYS filling my gutters. They did concede that is was a VERY large tree, and that Council nowadays would not plant such a tree in a suburban street.
I ain't giving up yet,....but I'm not confident I'll be able to achieve much.
Pickles.

Have you tried getting a solicitor to write a letter to the council's Risk Safety Officer warning that the council tree overhangs your property and you reserve your right to seek compensation if it damages your property in any way? Enclose photos.
Nothing to lose and puts them on notice in case it does happen.