In this time of stress...!

[Dong]

The lovely old Maple tree that lines the road outside our house has finally given up.
It was reported to the council last year as being dangerous, what with a large, dead branch hanging over the pavement.
In their haste to make everything safe the town hall sent a girl round to look at it; after a few weeks. She told us it was to come down and said it would be done soon and that it was dangerous, which we knew. That was last October.
Last week a crane, with stuff, stopped outside our house, put down some red cones, and went.
They came back a week later, sat there for the morning, and went.
They came back next day and we managed a word with them, they said it was to come down, and be replaced with a new tree. Then they left. We wondered if they were trying to frighten this once lovely old tree into submission.
This morning they were sitting in this big red crane-like machine outside our house and we got all excited...this is it, we thought.........but they have just left again.
WTF?

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

If the tree is directly outside your home, you will be glad when it's gone. You'll get a lot more sunlight. Last summer we paid to have a large tree in the garden debranched. It's made a heck of a difference, sunshine all day long. It was a cash-in-hand job but he was a reputable chap, one branch had a bird's nest in which he refused to touch .

 

[hell2bwith76]

If the tree is directly outside your home, you will be glad when it's gone. You'll get a lot more sunlight. Last summer we paid to have a large tree in the garden debranched. It's made a heck of a difference, sunshine all day long. It was a cash-in-hand job but he was a reputable chap, one branch had a bird's nest in which he refused to touch .

If the tree is part of a Council preservation order ( and most are !) then you have to get permission to cut them down. Pruning them is ok though i think.

 

[Dong]

Then, in the morning, there was a buzzing noise outside my bedroom window, I looked out to see a bloke, festooned in ropes and buckles, buzz-saws buzzing, up my tree.
He was like a gymnast, swinging from branch to branch, chopping and buzzing his way through the branches. Took him all day and I had a ringside seat, from my window, seeing the limbs fall, thud, into the ground.
When they left there was just a very sturdy stump left; about ten foot tall.
Next day another team arrived, they spent the day reducing the stump, to about 4foot, then they left.
The next day, another team arrived, with grinders ,and they set about getting rid of the stump. They left the roots.
next day another team arrived to grind out the roots, which they did, sawdust everywhere.
It's gone now. Just a mess of sawdust everywhere to remind us of our tree.
Put up a good fight, I think
I shall miss it.
I feel sorry for our council now, for there are hundreds of these trees lining our streets, all of a similar size and age.
What a palaver!
I gather we are to have a new tree planted in it's place....a blossom tree.
That won't keep the sun out of my room.

 

[Dong]

I have two of those. Silly little things. I like real, big trees. So I have a Huge silver birch, two very big Firs, an acer, two nut trees and what we think may be a wild cherry.
People say our garden is like sitting in a wood, what with the shrubs and tubs. In summer it's more like being inside a lettuce, all cool and green.

 

[hell2bwith76]

We have scheduled a pro gardener to reduce a lovely Lilac tree which has grown out of our control. It`s a shame but comes a time when we are unable to lug a chainsaw into garden to cut main branches and people who lived here before us did what most people do .Plant the tree right up against the fence ! Fine when it`s a baby tree but not once it grows up .Neighbour had a huge apple tree against the fence which drops it`s apples every year all over our garden ! right where it`s difficult to get to as i built my sheds there. Would`nt be so bad but the fruit is tasteless.We have to pick it up and fill the green bin with it .He had it lopped on his side other week and wife cheekily asked the tree blokes if they`d cut the massive branch overhanging our side down too , which they did ..Rats which arrived with neighbours chickens made a big store of apples and seed in one of my sheds cheeky sods. Now i have to get rid of them too ,along with the tree.
Why do people insist on planting potentially large trees right against a party fence ? ! I have to renew the fence now at my cost and i need to lop the trees too ,at my cost. Grrrrr!!.

 

[megs233]

When we moved into this house there was no orders n trees that line the road I double check with council as i could see it need a trim ., was told on phone oh no idea call back in a weeks time we look in to it for you.
Two weeks passed heard nothing on morning hubby said give ring again we need to move on it before xmas , we moved in the october] As i set about my house chores the postman knocked door please sign this what is it i asked. He laughed at me saying not idea but seem to be i am delievering to all houses with trees in gardens . he had noticed . so to please him i opened it , low and behold a preservation order. on the Ok tree in my garden .
Hubs comes home reads it and aid oh right we allowed to trim lower branches that at in way, 1] any other must have a man to see them . 2] then get him to dram it and were we want cutting. 3] they look at it then come check tree. 4] then give permission for US to pay the said man who did drawing to cut it down . but what is cut off becomes theirs , not ours .
we been at war ever since due to fact the tree is on our drive not councils land so we refuse to held to ransom over aa tree that we see is ours.

 

[hell2bwith76]

When we moved into this house there was no orders n trees that line the road I double check with council as i could see it need a trim ., was told on phone oh no idea call back in a weeks time we look in to it for you.
Two weeks passed heard nothing on morning hubby said give ring again we need to move on it before xmas , we moved in the october] As i set about my house chores the postman knocked door please sign this what is it i asked. He laughed at me saying not idea but seem to be i am delievering to all houses with trees in gardens . he had noticed . so to please him i opened it , low and behold a preservation order. on the Ok tree in my garden .
Hubs comes home reads it and aid oh right we allowed to trim lower branches that at in way, 1] any other must have a man to see them . 2] then get him to dram it and were we want cutting. 3] they look at it then come check tree. 4] then give permission for US to pay the said man who did drawing to cut it down . but what is cut off becomes theirs , not ours .
we been at war ever since due to fact the tree is on our drive not councils land so we refuse to held to ransom over aa tree that we see is ours.

Typical .Our neighbour had a large Cherry tree in her front garden which obviously blocked a lot of light on that side. The tree was an original one put there or growing wild by the Building Company when they built houses. I am aware that buyers at the time of new houses were told they needed permission to cut any trees ,which were there to add Oxygen to the air. Neighbour applied to have it cut down ,to the Council She was refused on the original grounds and she showed us the letter of refusal. The base girth of tree was about 3Ft. so it was old
She left it a couple of years and simply paid a odd job person to cut it riight down ,without getting permission. Nothing happened .

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

people who lived here before us did what most people do .Plant the tree right up against the fence ! Fine when it`s a baby tree but not once it grows up

Tell me about it, The back of our house is open land, I've no idea who owns it, but there's a tree been planted right up against the fence. Cutting down the overhanging branches is bad enough but the roots of the tree are inexorably working their way along the garden. That whole corner of the garden has been abandoned, If I get a chance I'll ask the other half to take a picture of it during the week.

 

[Dong]

Tell me about it, The back of our house is open land, I've no idea who owns it, but there's a tree been planted right up against the fence. Cutting down the overhanging branches is bad enough but the roots of the tree are inexorably working their way along the garden. That whole corner of the garden has been abandoned, If I get a chance I'll ask the other half to take a picture of it during the week.

It quite breaks my heart to see a tree cut down.
All those years of growing - cut down in seconds, noble tree: to pile of logs.
Just think...plant a sapling now and, in say, fifty years, you may have a tree again. You won't be here to see it though!

 

[megs233]

It quite breaks my heart to see a tree cut down.
All those years of growing - cut down in seconds, noble tree: to pile of logs.
Just think...plant a sapling now and, in say, fifty years, you may have a tree again. You won't be here to see it though!

Totally agree to watch it from a spaling to a tree for some one then to say away with it

There was a horse chestnut on the area next door where they parked the woman in said house complained every year about it sap in spring falling on her beloved car next thing i know its being lopped then week later taken competely down and guess what 2 years after she moved out .
Maybe just me but if you looked t the area on map it used to be all fields . the trees were in the hedge rows. Behind my old house [it been here over 90 years] used to be st Georges army barracks have been told some tales off the elderly of the road . and of how if they damaged any trees they replanted them.

 

[hell2bwith76]

There was a lovely Mulberry Tree when i was a little kid in some land which was left for the tree. I bet they are quite rare (?)In order to "improve" the area for some new developement the tree had to go ! after a few hundred years of growth. There was a cafe or pub named "The Mulberry tree" after the tree which was still there but the Council gave permission to kill the tree. There was a very old Elm tree in a different area of town and that had a pub named after it which was probably as old too ! Developers built a block of luxury flats on the site . The tree had to go ! the pub stayed though. I think they`v changed the pub name now . It wouldn`t be quite so bad but the dam Council who give all this permission out don`t even live in the town ! Grr!.

 

[megs233]

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The offending tree growing right up against the back fence. The bamboo is to stop marauding feral cats coming into the garden to spook our own timid tomcat.
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Huge root from the tree that broke through the base of the old shed. I dread to think what the roots are doing to the drains.
I've cropped the pics to remove offending items, children.... my feet! etc

If they heading for drains you could get in touch with your council.

 

[megs233]

Trees should always be planted at least a couple of metres away from brick walls, drains, or anything else they can damage - In some case at least 3 metres (depending on the tree). No one ever thinks of that when planting one.

lol root spread no matter how far away u plant them

 

[Dong]

There's an area at the bottom of our road called the Triangle, 'cos three roads meet there. In the middle is a green area: and a willow.
The pub on the corner is called the willow but it has not been there as long as has the tree.
It is a huge tree, and they pollarded it. From a mass of sweeping green leaves to ...a stump.
They said it was because the tree was sick, which it wasn't.....'cos it started to grow, and grow and etc.
We now have a huge sweeping willowy bush of green on a huge stump. A wonderful re-growth.
They better not try to cut it again!