Thread: Ideas wanted

Sympathise with you. I have had similar problems with neighbours planting highly unsuitable trees. There is a product called Blackberry and Tree Killer. It needs to be mixed with distillate or a mix of oil and kero, and sprayed or brushed on the trunk of the tree to a height of two metres or more. Works better if you can slash the trunk in a number of places with a tomahawk or machete. The stink of diesel/kero is a bit of a give away. Takes a while to kill and may have to be repeated one or two times. I used 5T40 years ago ( part of Agent Orange) but this is no longer available. It worked bloody well.

Heavy duty,STAY COOL,I can c your annoyed but dont let this problem blow out of proportion.
Talk 2 your neighbour again & if that doesnt work talk 2 your local council.
Ring a pro tree lopping firm they should know the legalities.
Eventually u should be able 2 come 2 a reasonable solution.
If all else fails set fire 2 it
Only joking of coarse,your a rational person, pity your neighbour isnt more considerate
Cheers Dean.

yeah what he said, basically DONT ever tell anyone you did this - as it is malicious damage to that point i would never mention it in a PUBLIC forum....

just because you use a screen name doesnt mean you are invisible....

Mick

Maybe you could use those little water bomb ballons you use as a kid for water fights. Might be a bit tricky filly them without getting the poisen everywhere. COuld use a dispenser of some sought and wear rubber gloves. Have a practice run with just water in a similar tree to make sure the baloon is gonna burst, other wise the poison one might go straight through the tree and burst on one of the dogs head or something.

Matt.

They are legally obliged to remove any leaves / debris that fall into your yard. Present them with a bill for the cleaning up and I bet they change their mind quick.

Tordon is a good tree fertilizer. Just nick part of an offending branch and inject some. Usually they change health very quickly.

Originally Posted by CraigE

They are legally obliged to remove any leaves / debris that fall into your yard. Present them with a bill for the cleaning up and I bet they change their mind quick.

Maybe where you live but not most other places - the owner has no obligation to make good any repair, damage, rubbish that falls from your tree - I have just been through this with my insurance company and council.

I have heaps of trees that overhang a neighbour on a house I own - not problem until he put a pool in his backyard and then started complaining about the trees - a feature of where the house is the bush land setting.

Being a good neighbour I told him I didn't have a problem with the trees but I would have no objection if he trimmed them - no wuurries but soon he was back at me about the trees - so I said if he went halves with me I would have them removed - no problems except that the council would not agree and no tree removalist will remove them without approval - and it isn't a job for amateurs.

So the neighbour knows I have tried to do my best but he still is on at me about the trees. What can you do - as I said there was no problem until the pool went in and these trees were on the block before building so he knew they were there before he bought his land and built.

Where I live now - a neighbour asked if I would trim my back trees - I did that yesterday but I must admit that what did speed me up was the electricity company giving me three weeks to have them trimmed - now all I have to do is take the 5 or 6 trailer loads of clippings to the tip.

As long as your request is reasonable the neighbour should do the right thing and clip them - recently a Sydney council stepped in and ordered a recalcitrant owner to trim their trees.

Gazzz

Last year I trimmed back a stack of vines overgrowing from my next door neighbour's place into mine in Coffs Harbour. I then went to his real estate agent and asked them to arrange to have it all collected and dumped. They did - I didn't pay for it.

Ron