Urgent help needed on windblown tree thats stuck

[frontier guy]

Hi again, I have had a 15-20m ash blow over into another tree and its stuck there and we have no idea who owns the land but there is a public footpath and road/track under it and I have been trying to call the council all day and left a message but nobody has called back. Is there anything else I can do as I dont own the track and I dont know if I have any right to cordon off to stop people walking under a tree that could come down at any time. I do not have the funds to sort out this tree and I think it will miss our house but I am concerned about a risk to the public.

 

Any ideas? Its Leeds Council btw.

[Jackalope]

Dont touch it.

If you cordon off the footpath people will either ignore your efforts or you'l get a letter from the council saying its an offence to block public footpaths.

OR

If you do nothing it might fall and squash someone but will probably remain hung up until 'persuaded' down.

 

Best bet is keep on trying to contact the council, by all means put up a notice pointing out the dangers to footpath users but its probably unlikely that this tree will fall right down unless it is only just hanging on a small limb? Impossible to say without photos.

[mikeh]

Councils are down til Monday - stick a "Danger" sign up, call em on Monday - all you can do.

[Cheesy pete]

you would be shocked how some hung up trees just won't come down ! even when hung up in much small trees.

posting some pic would be good

[Riggerbear]

I've been called out to a few windblown trees over the years via the fire brigade. Members of the public have rang them, they've contacted the out of hours council helpline and then the council have rang me ?

If your that worried about it and you think it's going to fall, maybe try that route.

[Pete Mctree]

Have you spoken to Leeds council on one of there emergency numbers? They do provide out of hours call centres

[carpenter1]

Put signs up as others have said, keep trying the council.they will have an emergency number.

Try another department if not.

[frontier guy]

Thanks for the replys, I have tried the emergency number all day. I have called the highways dept and they said the forestry section are off till mon so they are sending someone round this eve to assess it and they can decide what action to take. Its fallen in a good place and hung up in a crotch so it should not go far but there are a few branches just sat in the mess so hopefully they will deal with it tomorow and make it safe. I will get a pic up when its light!

[woody paul]

101 let them know so it gets log (no pun) down then if it go' s and falls down and dose damage all recorded, but they may send someone out how is on there list or may not.

[ashtree]

We had a similar situation with a wind split ash on our land where the much weakened stem was threatening to fall on the footpath at the side of the house. The tree was too dangerous to climb and needed a MEWP to tackle it but being Christmas it was obviously going to be a little while before we could source the right tackle.

 

I put a notice on the footpath at each end of our property reading :-

 

DANGER

You are advised not to use this footpath

for the time being due to unsafe tree.

 

Some people went another way and some didn't, but I reckoned I would have a good defence if anything nasty happened and they had ignored the warning.

[div_h]

A few years ago on New Years day our council phoned our club house saying 1 of your trees has came over through your wall onto the road will need to be cleared ASAP and if we didn't do anything about it they would clear it and just bill us for it..... And an hour later it was cleared and someone aperred just to make sure it was done! On New Years day👎