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Would a tree surgeon know another tree surgeon, had previously got caught in a neighbour dispute ?

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  • Bigbadbozman
    Bigbadbozman Posts: 1,775
    Covered End said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Covered End said:
    oohaahmortimer said:
    What’s matey and mateys wife said or no contact been made since you had the tree butchered :-)
    Surgeon has just finished.
    I'm hoping she's in doors sobbing. He's not home yet. :smile:
    Did he say anything?
    Nope.
    This is terrible news, I love  this thread and will be sorry to see it end!!!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,638
    Bigbadbozman said:
    Covered End said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    Covered End said:
    oohaahmortimer said:
    What’s matey and mateys wife said or no contact been made since you had the tree butchered :-)
    Surgeon has just finished.
    I'm hoping she's in doors sobbing. He's not home yet. :smile:
    Did he say anything?
    Nope.
    This is terrible news, I love  this thread and will be sorry to see it end!!!

    I'm sure it will spring into action in a year's time.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    Bournemouth Addick said:
    They are (rightly) very protective of their trees down here @Stu_of_Kunming and this isn't the first prosecution or POCA proceedings over someone ignoring a TPO to increase the value of their property.

    Don't have a problem with it myself.
    I mostly meant all the articles under that story.

    'Mini fly tip' returns to Boscombe street – less than three days after it was cleared


    Man received serious head injury after assault in St Peter's Road


    Woman sexually assaulted in Winton



    'Mini fly tip' returns to Boscombe street – less than three days after it was cleared

    Two Poole flats shut down after residents 'defecated in corridors'

  • clb74
    clb74 Posts: 10,824
    edited April 2019
    @Covered End have you knocked yet to ask them if they like the haircut
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    clb74 said:
    @Covered End have you knocked yet to ask them if they like the haircut
    I've not had time.
    I've been too busy sitting on the porch, sipping champagne, puffing on a big fat cigar, whilst playing Happy Days.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Covered End said:
    clb74 said:
    @Covered End have you knocked yet to ask them if they like the haircut
    I've not had time.
    I've been too busy sitting on the porch, sipping champagne, puffing on a big fat cigar, whilst playing Happy Days.
    Good man 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,046
    @blackpool72 has a cracking story about his next door neighbour.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    @blackpool72 has a cracking story about his next door neighbour.
    I don't always play nicely.  😁
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,046
    edited April 2019
    blackpool72 said:
    ElfsborgAddick said:
    @blackpool72 has a cracking story about his next door neighbour.
    I don't always play nicely.  😁
    Meeow!
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    Nothing to do with this case per se, but worth noting a Chelmsford man was fined £90,000 pounds (reduced to £60,000) for damaging a 90 year old Cedar tree in his own garden.

    https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/22/man-fined-60000-for-damaging-tree-in-his-own-garden-11948600/
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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,457
    A neighbourly dispute over a tree between two drives turned into a "war" when one homeowner cut the intrusive evergreen in half.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-57598101    The tree
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Hardly cut in half.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Addickted said:
    Hardly cut in half.
    Well, it is sort of. Certainly the main part of it is. Obviously there is no "before" photo but if the right hand side was a mirror of the left then I'd say it's been "cut in half". 
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Before photo. Trunk looks untouched, just the overhang which I believe the neighbour is entitled to do as long as he offers the cuttings back to the owner.

    Cut-down conifer becomes Sheffield attraction after neighbour dispute Sheffield The Guardian
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,762
    It looks awful and the perpetrators have to live with it. It was quite an attractive tree but they have ruined it. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    Outrageous behaviour, what's wrong with people?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    Covered End said:
    Outrageous behaviour, what's wrong with people?
    Quite within his rights to prune any bush or tree overhanging his property. Don't think I'd like to have my car crapped on morning, noon & night......although looking at the photos he can park his car well away from it. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    golfaddick said:
    Covered End said:
    Outrageous behaviour, what's wrong with people?
    Quite within his rights to prune any bush or tree overhanging his property. Don't think I'd like to have my car crapped on morning, noon & night......although looking at the photos he can park his car well away from it. 
    Whoosh.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Covered End said:
    Outrageous behaviour, what's wrong with people?
    How are those copper nails coming along?
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    That's how to deal with it, bang straight to the point.
      
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    It was cut back to the boundary wall 2 years ago. Here it is now. 
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,522
    The problem with cutting things back is that they then grow more vigorously.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    edited June 2021
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  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    Weegie Addick said:
    The problem with cutting things back is that they then grow more vigorously.

  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,651
    Ormiston_Addick said:
    Weegie Addick said:
    The problem with cutting things back is that they then grow more vigorously.

    That reminds me, I need to trim my bush.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    Ha, how many people when they read this today thought of this thread!
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,810
    edited June 2021
    This thread has reminded me of something a mate of mine did a while back - let's call him Derek.

    Derek and his wife live in a gorgeous spot with views out to Moreton Bay from their back deck, their back garden meets the Pacific Ocean - not bad for a backhoe (excavator) driver from Lancaster.

    Anyway, Derek's next door neighbour Dave moved out, demolished the shack he was living in and put the block of land up for sale, hoping to attract a professional buyer that would build a new, massive house on the block, therefore potentially blocking out some of Derek's amazing views.

    Derek wasn't happy about this but is a really nice bloke and knew he couldn't really do too much so he swallowed it and just got on with life.

    A couple of weeks later Dave texts him to say that there is a couple coming round to look at the block and could Derek show them around as he was out of town and he agreed.

    Derek was distraught that this was now becoming a reality so he got pissed up massively on the Saturday night and about midnight he drives his backhoe over to his neighbours block and starts digging holes - LOTS of holes all around the block - dumping the soil on the beach line out of the way - to this day he remains unsure as to what he was actually trying to achieve.

    After about an hours work he was done and went to bed still pissed up but drifted off to sleep and woke up in the morning not really remembering too much about it until he took his morning cuppa onto his balcony and looked over at Dave's garden and saw that it looked like a series of bombs had gone off, leaving these massive craters all over the garden.

    By now, of course, it's broad daylight so he can't get the backhoe out to fix the damage - which would have been relatively easy - because he can't be seen at the crime scene and he doesn't have time anyway as the couple are due to arrive to view the block.

    Sure enough the couple arrive and as soon as he shows them onto the block they clock the Somme like landscape.

    "What's the story with the holes? Looks like a bloody war zone!" says the potential buyer.

    "No idea mate," says Derek, "Dave did mention he was having a problem with Wombats, but I didn't know it was this bad!"

    The couple took a look around and left wordlessly, clearly unnerved about the scene they had stumbled upon and continued their property search elsewhere.

    Derek thought he had got away with it until he got a text from Dave later in the afternoon, "What the fuck is all this about loads of fucking wombats on my fucking block?"

    At that point the game was up and the truth had to be told which Dave, being an absolute diamond bloke, thought was the funniest thing he had ever heard laughed his bollocks off!

    The block was eventually sold and a massive house built which did indeed block some of Derek's views but at that point he deemed further interference far too risky.

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