neighbour's oak pruning

[Tellme_why]

Hi Forum,

My neighbour's oak need pruning; it's massive and just 2ft from my fence, causing havoc dropping tons of leaf and acorns, starving all my trees of light. The most annoying thing are dead branches and stick falling off at any little wind blow.

Most of my gardening time is spent cleaning up the mess of this tree that is not even mine.. 

I don't understand why law says I have to foot the bill for pruning and not my neighbour, moreover I have to ask permission for pruning their mess.

The neighbour's property is empty, dunno how to speak to him so just preparing to do a search and getting ready what to say.

 

I had once a gardener knocking door asking jobs so I shown this massive tree and he said he could only do bits and pieces but not a whole pruning to stop any branch trespassing to my  property "otherwise the tree gets unbalanced" he said. I am not sure whether this is true - I suspect he was after small jobs and quick bucks too much drama for this monster.

 

Question. See pictures of the tree and how I'd like it to be pruned (second picture). Is this possible? Can I ask the neighbour to pay for it? What kind of permission needed to get the job done?. No impeding TPO on this tree.

 

Final point, I really look forward to reduce this tree proper so hopefully a gang of grey squirrels living off its acorn leave my garden alone and can get my life's back - namely my flowers not eaten by these ba***s..

 

Thanks!

 

 

Edited April 25, 2021 by Tellme_why
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[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, Tellme_why said:

..ok so pack this and wait until December sort of thing?

Depends, if you watch the nest and there are no birds visiting then it’s fine.

 

A reduction on the scale you want (looking at the plane trees you posted) is not really a viable option on someone else’s tree.

But you could trim branches back to your boundary, within reason.

Have you more photos showing the overhang in your garden?

 

 

[Khriss]

4 minutes ago, Tellme_why said:

..ok so pack this and wait until December sort of thing?

I think you need to get advice. Before commiting to getting work done on someone elses tree. K

[trigger_andy]

1 minute ago, Tellme_why said:

..ok so pack this and wait until December sort of thing?

Maybe so?

 

Have you spoke with the neighbour yet, they might be accommodating to having the tree pruned if you covered the cost. If thats the case then both of you could turn a blind eye to the Crows Nest, it might even be empty. 

 

 

If they are not accommodating Id be looking into getting a Cherry Picker in (if there is room to get one down there)  and pruning back to the boundary line. Wont help that much with Acorns and leaves but will help a bit I guess? 

 

ps, just read the house is actually empty. Well, you know what they say. Forgiveness is easier to get than permission.  

[Mick Dempsey]

1 minute ago, Khriss said:

I think you need to get advice. Before commiting to getting work done on someone elses tree. K

Not from you that’s for sure, you’ve already tried to trick the op.

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[Khriss]

8 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Not from you that’s for sure, you’ve already tried to trick the op.

' And i would have succeeded too - if it werent fr your meddling, Dempsey... '

K

 

( bit Scooby Doo, i know, sue me) 

[Mick Dempsey]

Call me old fashioned, but when people outside the industry come on here looking for advice, I like to think they can get opinions, viewpoints but not hoodwinked by people like you who should know better.

I use other professional forums as an ingénu for all sort of advice from fishing lakes to oven repairs to Land Rover engines and been grateful for the advice.

I’d be disappointed if people were less than honest me to further their agenda.

2 minutes ago, Khriss said:

' And i would have succeeded too - if it werent fr your meddling, Dempsey... '

K

 

( bit Scooby Doo, i know, sue me) 

[Khriss]

Yr old fashioned, but not as old fashioned as me - who would go speak to the  actual owner of the tree and get their view. K  ( AND take it from there...) 

[Mick Dempsey]

That was not your objective, it was to get a TO to put an order on the tree.

 

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Yr old fashioned, but not as old fashioned as me - who would go speak to the  actual owner of the tree and get their view. K  ( AND take it from there...) 

Why didn't you give that advice in the first place rather than try to hoodwink someone who wouldn't know what could happen if a TO was contacted.