Anyone have a wood chipper I could borrow or want some wood?

Gadget

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IMG_20181115_141011.jpg IMG_20181115_141024.jpg IMG_20181115_141020.jpg All of this has been dumped into my garden from a neighbour ''trimming' the tree. I've no way of getting rid of it. Anyone want some? Anyone have a woodchipper I could use? They've butchered the poor tree and I can't even lift some of those branches.
 

Noah

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If the tree is in the neighbour's garden I have a feeling that legally you are required to return anything cut from the tree to them.
 

Gadget

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No it's in mine and they are suppose to ask if they put it back over else it's technically fly tipping. Basically if you cut it off it's yours unless your neighbour asks for it back or you ask them. They've even butchered the tree over on my side of the fence too :angry:
 

Gramaisc

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If the tree is in the neighbour's garden I have a feeling that legally you are required to return anything cut from the tree to them.
You can remove material on your side of the boundary and the material remains the property of the owner, if the tree is growing on adjacent land. You are not obliged to fling it over, if they don't want it.

You are not allowed to 'prune' plants on the neighbours side of the boundary, without prior agreement.

It's also wise to be sure there isn't a TPO - the most bizarre trees can be protected. I nearly got one down once, where it never entered my head that it was protected, but the owner did, luckily for me. I didn't actually believe her, but the paperwork was there.

Also, an owner may not even be aware of an order...
 

Gramaisc

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That wood will dry reasonably quickly* - it will make a nice Solstice fire. It will be easier to cut/lop it now, rather than later.

How have they got that high up without trespassing? It's difficult to be sure of the scale, but it looks further than a pole cutter's reach.




*Especially if you can keep as much as possible of it away from contact with the soil.
 

Gadget

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Right up against their side of the fence they have a huge shed, they'll have gotten on top of that. They still must have come over somehow to butcher the branches on my side as they are more than a stretch over. I was out at the time else I'd have noticed the commotion. At some point this year they've added a few extra feet to their fence with boards and wire mesh so it's about 8ft tall or so now. These are the bottom of the garden neighbours. I don't know why they felt the need really but it's their fence end of the day.
We don't use the garden much and the kids don't play in there as there are hidden nasties just under the surface of the ''soil'' an old bleach bottle worked it's way up the other week. the previous occupants seemed to have used the garden as a rubbish disposal area, there were huge burnt areas where they'd had fire after fire and hadn't been fussy what they had burnt. We think we've cleared it and oh look another old bed spring, tin can has popped up. We've given up trying to dig it after breaking 2 garden forks on buried slabs/concrete. Now we just strim it occasionally and clear anything that comes up. Doesn't mean I want it looking like the aftermath of a hurricane in a forest though, the pups still go out there.
Again I've seen no evidence of rats btw. I swear next door either don't know the difference between a rat and a squirrel or they are lying/hallucinating. I seem to be surrounded by morons again. I sure can pick places to live. Mind you I'm positive I've been here longer than they both have.
 

Gadget

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Sadly it seems they cut off more than it looked but left it in situ so with the winds its moved. Some has gone through the shed roof, the rest is hanging precariously. I've reported it to the letting agents as it's damaged the shed. I was very fond of that tree :( I'm also hopping mad that the shed roof is now totally knackered, we have things in there and how dangerous that was leaving big cut branches like that!
 

Gramaisc

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I know it won't make the shed better, but the tree will grow back.
We can look forward to some quite vigorous growth over the next few years - and the 'high-level pollarding' makes future cutting much more labour-intensive - lots of little twigs, rather than a few decent branches.
 
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