Leylandii worth a fortune?

[flatyre]

this was inspired by Forest2Furniture's thread, seeing more and more of these adverts on gumtree.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/freebies/free-trees-need-cut-down-/1166598787

 

or this one

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/freebies/trees-free-to-cut-down-and-take-away-armagh-city/1166133411

 

they're good for a laugh:thumbup:

[OakStag]

Such a rare timber in this day and age! Beautiful plants and wonderful piece of wood for burning or carving I wish I could see and work on more leylandii's!

 

Oh the beauty of those trunks.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

The worrying thing is that these people genuinely believe that they are being generous.

The even more worrying thing is that there may actually be some nutter out there to take then up on these ridiculous offers.

Let's hope not ahy

[easy-lift guy]

Free Tree removal. No formal request for knowledge of how to remove said trees, no mention of insurance requirements as well for any party concerned. What could possibly go wrong?.

easy-lift guy

[biggarlogs]

If it were not for the leylandii hedge many a tree surgeon would be broke,yes they are worth a fortune!!

[flatyre]

If it were not for the leylandii hedge many a tree surgeon would be broke,yes they are worth a fortune!!

 

very true but these people don't understand the money is in the removal not the wood, I sent the second advertiser a message explaining that no professional tree surgeon will remove them for free, if he's lucky some cowboy might do it but given the confined space and built up area don't be surprised if it goes horribly wrong, no point in asking for their public liability insurance and his home insurance will laugh at him when he askes them to fit the repair bill. I kept it polite and professional, he didn't get back to me.