Next to my drive there is a 200ft Silver Birch tree belonging to a neighbour. During the summer it drops sap and seeds on the cars and now its fooking leaves Does anyone know of something i could do to kill it without my neighbour knowing what I've done

 

i was told years ago that copper nails into the trunk will kill a tree, i have no idea though.

or just pour a few gallons of petrol into the gound around it.

i'm pretty sure both will be illegal though

 

My dad drilled a couple holes in the roots of a big tree then injected cresote into it. Soon died

 

is there an order on the tree for it not to be destroyed?

if not just cut it just yourself. my dad drill holes in his and filled with oil, couple of months later is was dying and had to be cut down, but was obvious. os any chance of a picture of a 200ft tree? the roots on that must be causing all sorts of problems with your drive and house foundations.

 

my money is on you killing it, then it falling over and landing on your car in a last gasp attempt to piss you off

 

If the tree is 200 feet tall it was there before you moved in so leave it alone!!!


Right now, the tree is on the arborial equivalent of our internet, the inter-root, asking his woody mates how to kill the guy next door who is always leaving these heavy, smelly things sitting on his roots!

 

What he said.

 

if any branches are overhanging your property you are allowed to cut them off.
200ft? are you sure? thats a big old tree.

 

i very much doubt its 200ft and if it is its sure to have a tpo on it meaning you go and willing kill it your liable to a fine and they aint cheap fines Ł10,000 was mentioned when it was brought up at a council meeting recently from the head tree officer

 

Park the car somewhere else?

200ft is a big tree, i'd leave it well alone!

 

head tree officer? thats sounds like a mighty powerful position to hold

 

lol hes the manager of that part of the council organising what the tree lads do and all that shit good guy though does a mean bbq lol

 

whats 200ft in real money? about 70 metres? thats a mighty big tree and could likely have a preservation order on it.

 

cut a strip of bark around the base of the trunk, about 4inchs across.

 

Blow it up whilst your neighbours stood under it, should do the trick

 

i aint ever seen a 200ft silver birch and its my job ! tbh i doubt i've seen a poplar which is a true 200ft and they gorw tall and straight up and to my knoledge a betula pendula(thats the latin name for silver birch we only tend to deal in latin names as there universal around the globe and we import from germany) grows to a max of 25 meters

 

commonly kjnown as ring barking trees tend to survive this seen it a few times

and on the flip side to all this kill the tree shit any one ever thought about what has to happen to the then dead tree? as its gonna cost a shit load more to take a dead tree down than a live one as its alot more dangerous !

 

well if its your job your sure to know what your talking about. i only deal with trees after theyve been chopped down when i turn them into a nice piece of furniture or a window/door etc

 

Surely it can't be 200ft, thats fucking huge

Aparently these are between 150ft-200ft

 

ive always found a chainsaw fairly terminal to a trees health

 

thats surely the neighbours problem as its their tree?

 

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They both fuck up trees!

 

can and can't be mate alot of them will expect you to pay half and i have known lots of em to just be left until it starts to fall down bit by bit and theres nothing you can do as a neighbour

as its all classed as an act of god so you can't calim insurance or anything so you end up paying up for half the job just to get it done personally i'd just leave it alone and put up with it being there

 

got to the pet shop and ask if they sell woodperckers

at least that way you can fill the holes they make with paint or wahtever it is to make it look like it wasn't you

if you pay cash for the woodperckers and wear a scarf there is no way to link you to the crime

other than thsi post

 

how many woodpeckers would you need to take down a 200ft tree?

 

I need to see the pics of this fucker, i did an 80m bungee jump and thats well over 200 feet, i cant get an image in my mind of a tree that hight in between two houses

 

Cut it down... I hate nature LOL

 

i thought all trees are protected now

 

Yeah... it's really high up

 

not just your average tree officer , hes in the special branch

 

take a leaf out of his book... he didnt get to where he is purely by chance

 

and they are opening up branches all over to combat this

 

i think your all barking up the wrong tree

 

hire one of these, and acidently reverse into as your not used to the controls!

 

agreed, just take a chainsaw to it.

 

Get a hitman to do it as you dont want to get done for killing it!

 

Firstly, It wont be more than 70-80 feet tall

And secondly, leave the feckin thing alone you cretin !!

J.

 

My money is on the tree!

When I did my advanced driving, one of the pieces of advice was to avoid hitting a tree because "it will kill you every time".

 

Your not serious?

It's a fooking tree, jesus why can't you just leave it be and find something else to worry about. It was there long before you and it should be there long after you. It's nature and shouldn't be messed with.

 

I think perhaps there is one to many zeros on that 200ft