Whisker

A tree that is 30-odd ft high, once cut would be 30-odd ft in length, no? And make that 'a grown ass woman'...

I would suggest that you re-read my 'musings' and pay particular attention to my first photograph whereupon you will observe that the trees are growing vertically and therefore not encroaching on my neighbour's (nextdoor or otherwise) land at all.

Must've (dis)missed your post last week... With all due respect, I have to say you don't know what you're talking about. Before you tell someone to 'grow up' you should remember that you may not be aware of all the facts. Details that have no relevance to my original question have not been included, and your comments would suggest that you have misread/misunderstood/misinterpreted/made your own assumptions about those that have. We are dealing with a devious and cowardly individual, whose actions over the past two years have caused immeasurable stress both to myself and to my elderly parents, who now don't want to go in the garden anymore. In an ideal world there would be no need for me to try to make light of the situation by contemplating fanciful notions of unlawful methods of retaliation, and my neighbour and I would skip merrily down the garden holding hands across the boundary whilst exchanging pleasantries. But unfortunately the real world has landed me with a volatile human being who does not act, and therefore cannot be spoken to, 'like an adult'. Although, if your idea of adult behaviour is shooting little bits of wood over a fence, that sounds about as grown up as him climbing onto his shed roof to sweep debris into my garden. Maybe you could get together for a fly-tipping contest.

We know how that one turned out... A mouthful of abuse, branches being thrown at us, and then he cut down even more......

FYI - the beech hedge is growing in a crescent shape across my garden. The tree at the end is five feet away from the boundary. He's cut all the ones on his side up to eight feet into my garden which were not even overhanging. He cannot claim lack of sunlight - they're 200ft up the garden. The photo is taken from the back of my garden with his on the right.

This has crossed my mind... I was thinking... Eucalyptus... Cut a little each day so he doesn't notice... A gentle breeze (nudge)... Hey presto! House becomes flat 🤣

It would explain a lot but I think it's unlikely as the whole family are the same ☹️

🤔 So I should obliterate everything in my garden before he does? Sounds extreme but I can see it working 😂

OK good. It's coming out soon anyway, just wanted to make sure I wouldn't be removing evidence 😂

👍 I'm taking note of all your suggestions, including the slightly less orthodox ones 😁 Been reading this topic - "Right to prune branches when it destabilizes tree" and I take it that means damage 'to the tree'? What is meant by 'unnecessary'? Does it have to be major or just carelessness? This is the ash that he had a go at recently It's a bit sparse as I had it reduced in 2020 before it went near his greenhouse. The branches he took are over his side but have not been cleanly cut so I assume would be open to disease and whatnot. Would this be considered 'unnecessary' in law? And is it 'criminal damage' only if it's over my property? Sorry if I'm being a bit of a thicko but I'm just trying to get things clear...

I'd be reluctant to have the trees tidied up. If any of them were to die then surely he would no longer be liable as I authorised further works...? As for the overhanging branches, I'm not fussed how he cuts them. He more or less cut my sycamore in half, then had to give back his booty, so he did all that work for nothing. The tree still looks good from my side esp. in summer, while he has a view of his butchery skills...

No, I prefer spudulike's suggestion 🤣

Thanks for your advice. 😂 The other options are very appealing, although as an animal lover I wouldn't want to be responsible for giving the pigs indigestion!

A friendly chinwag would not be an option. We've never been on speaking terms - simply because we'd never actually spoken until the overhanging branches episode last year, when he was aggressive and abusive. In the 17 years since he moved in there have been untold incidents which I have ignored as pathetic attempts to provoke a reaction from me and I would've let this go too, thought he'd had his fun, but no, he was out there at 9 o/c the other evening sawing away at my ash tree in the dark. So I reckon it's only a matter of time before the prospect of 60 beech trees-worth of firewood becomes a little too tempting...

Sorry, should have mentioned that the trees form an ornamental beech hedge which hasn't been pruned in about 30 years so they're very tall. The big bugger of a eucalyptus is mine too and he hates that with a vengeance because of its leaves (but he has one too!) I always kept any thin lower branches cut back from the boundary (but not to the trunk!) so it would only be the twiggy bits at the ends of the tall ones that would be hanging over his garden.