Ideas wanted

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Originally Posted by amtravic1

Our next door neighbour has a tree that really annoys us. They have planted trees all along their south boundary and they block alot of sun to our yard in the winter months. As well as that, one of the trees is constantly dropping seeds, leaves and seed pods all year. I need to clean our gutters out 3-4 times a year because of that one tree. We have offered to pay to have it cut down but they will not do it.
I have poisoned one of the connifer trees at the back and it is dying slowly. It seems that the poison was very effective by just spraying a little on the leaves.
The other tree is a different sort and is proving much harder to get to. I have tried spraying the tree but cant get up the tree far enough for it to be effective. I bought one of those Super Soaker water pistols that are supposed to shoot up to 10 metres but that was useless and would only shoot around 3 metres. I have tried pressure garden sprayers but they dont spray far enough. I also dont want to be standing directly under the spray and get the stuff on me.
Anyone have any suggestions as to what I could use to spray the tree. It is around 8 metres high and I want to soak the leaves. This will need to be done late at night/early morning as the people sleep nearly all day and dont go to bed until very late (dont work/almost never go out for more that half an hour). It will also need to be quiet as they have a couple of dogs that bark at the slightest noise.

thanks,
ian

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If you poison the tree you are liable to be fined by council and sued by your neighbour, use your scone and do as Numpty's Missus said, ask the neighbours to remove any branches, foilage that is on your side of the property, if they say no, inform them with a letter that you intend to have the offending branches removed and placed neatly on their property and you will send them the bill for this exercise, you have the legal right to remove any branches encroaching your property and to place them neatly on their property, Regards Frank.

As this is a public forum, and certain things are illegal, I will tell a total fictitious story.

Onece upon a time, Mr J Smith had a new neighbor move in, a Mr & Mrs Gunna, Mr Gunna seemed a nice bloke at the start. He quickly showed his talents in gardening by planting some large shrubs by Mr Smiths Vegetable garden, even though Mr Smith asked him not to. Mr Smith was not able to grow any more vegetables as these bushes took all the goodness from the vegie garden. Mr Smith asked Mr Gunna if he would consider moving these shrubs a little bit. "They are not worring me" was his answer. The next week there were some LARGE trees planted next to the shrubs. In a couple of years Mrs Smith could not dry her washing in Winter because these trees were casting permanent shade over the garden. Mr Gunna was not going to trim them as he said that he liked large trees. Mr Smith then went digging on his side of the fence and found some nice large roots that seemed to be comming from the property of Mr Gunna. So he cut the roots at the correct diameter that would fit into a glass drink bottle, he filled the drink bottle with some old poision he found and placed the root in that and re buried it. He did this with all the rootes he found that were big enough.
It was not all that long that the trees and shurbs looked rather sick. Mr Gunna tried to find out what was the matter but he could not come up with a solution. In the end after a few yeras the shrubs and trees just seemed to dry up and die. Mr Gunna did not plant any more trees there as it was not a good spot for trees and Mr & Mrs Smith could now grow vegies and dry their clothes and they all lived happily ever after.

Now isn't that a nice bedtime story :) :D

My neighbour at the diagonal backyard planted a small norfolk pine (about 2 metres). He's reasonable (ish). Over a beer at the pub one day (with others) I said to him: "Do you know there's a sewer main about 3 metres from where you planted that tree and when it gets going it'll wreck the sewer system for the rest of the suburb and they'll be after you??"

It was long gone in less than 24 hours......

And he also levelled the rest of his back yard - just in case...... and then popped in a pool!

GQ

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Originally Posted by Quiggers

My neighbour at the diagonal backyard planted a small norfolk pine (about 2 metres).....

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:o the family property has one on the front lawn... it must shade an area 10+ metres in diameter and it's well over 30 metres tall, supposedly about 75 years old..... be glad it disappeared they are completely inappropriate for urban areas IMHO...

Having lived on Norfolk Island and seen how easily they come down in a big wind, e.g., cyclone, I wouldn't want a big one near me. They are often hollow inside but look great from the outside.

Captian Cook thought they'd make great masts but they don't because the branches come out at the same spot at each level - they don't have a lot of strength.

Ron

I had a large gum in the front yard that mysteriously died after the next door neighbour complained about it. After it died he offered to pay for half of the removal cost. I wonder why.

I was happy to see it go - I'd wanted to remove it but the Council said no.

Ron

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Originally Posted by gruntfuttock

As this is a public forum, and certain things are illegal, I will tell a total fictitious story.

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I got a similar fairytale to tell...

once upon a time a neighbour to a Mr Blogs planted a double row of silver birches less than 2 metres apart, less than half a metre from the boundary fence - he should have looked across the yard to notice the 20+ metre specimen silver birch and thought better, but no... anyway, the SEC came along and wanted to bury all the powerlines in the aftermath of ash wednesday 1983 (this was in about 1985) and they needed to get their trench dug to a minimum depth of 75cm right on the fenceline. A dozen punnets of petunias later and nobody was any the wiser. Eventually Spring came but the silver birches showed no signs of new leaves...

Moral of the story: an SEC workcrew will dig a trench any depth you like in any location you like given an adequate supply of appropriate liquid refreshments :)

hydrofluric acid...

Inject it deep into some limbs on your side as close to their side as you can...

wait a week, then cut off the stuff on your side as your legally entitled to do

Just dont get any of the acid on anything you particulalry want to see kept alive.

:)

of course getting the acids a trick in itself

Especially as hydrofluoric acid will dissolve anything - including the glass bottles in which it comes. (I believe they first make a saturated glass solution so that it can't dissolve anymore glass before they pour it into the glass bottle.)

Ron

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

hydrofluric acid...


Just dont get any of the acid on anything you particulalry want to see kept alive.

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Like yourself. :eek:

Nasty, nasty stuff.