to be furious that the man over the road is engaged in cutting down a beautiful and perfectly healthy small tree.

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The git gentleman has cut off all the branches and is trying to stuff them (unsuccessfully) in his green bin. I expect the trunk will be next but no idea about the roots He doesn't seem to have a tractor handy.....

I am LIVID. It was a really beautful tree. I asked what was wrong with it and he said it was getting too big and the roots were disrupting his drains. Arsehole! The tree was planted by the builders and like all the trees on our estate are on the edge of the boundary. I think the roots things is bollocks actually. Some people just don't ike trees and living things. I think these people fall in that class - their entire front garden is white pebbles.

So aibu to think he is a Telmarine tree hating vandal straight out of Prince Caspian?

(And don't give me any of that his tree, his choice bollocks! What is my cat going to climb down now?)

My cat is delightful.

Right he still isn't back, has cleared up all the debris and left a four foot stump sticking up out of the ground. He doesn't know what to do now does he? He's just going to leave it like that.

I have some odd neighbours really. Bloke down the road takes his cat for a walk on a lead.......

i was made by the insurance company to take three trees outside my house down because they were so close and they thought they were causing damage to our house i loved those three trees so when the man oposite hacked down a huge beautiful conifer ( i know they drain the soil) i wasnt very pleased as he was doing it just to put a summer house up our gardens are pretty small so i dont see a point in that and hes away over the period of the year approx 6 months so doubly angry especially when i didnt want to take trees down and had to get permission from english partnership and the council to do so who took months of arguing between themselves and the insurers

Could be worse - in my last flat, my downstairs neighbour sent his daughter to ask if he could prune one branch from my tree - and then cut down the whole tree because 'it was diseased' (bloody wasn't).

To add insult to injury, he cut the trunk up and used it on his barbecue.

Well I was on the fence UNTIL you mentioned the fact that he has that disgusting giant cat litter effect for a front garden!!!!!!!!

Only this morning I was berating anyone who has this. At the very least plant some shrubs, large tubs with flowers to compensate.
you have my sympathy.

Footnote: tis fine to prune/cut trees providing you have a tasteful garden!

"Bloke down the road takes his cat for a walk on a lead......."

Pictures please...

LTJ - I will try and take one sometime. Honestly it's hilarious, The cat is hugely pissed off and he sort of anxiously urges it along.......

my neighbour very kindly prunes my bushes lol no jokes please for me without asking and uses my green bin when hers is full when doing her own gardening AND when im 50 years old eventhough i do already separate my rubbish for recycling gave me a verbal earbashing sorry lesson on how to separate the plastics glass and paper how nice of her and that i should wash all of the glass and tins first (had she been inspecting my recycling bag for traces of baked bean juice?)

ROFL! So, literally, herding a cat!

Yup! It's really not a good idea. Cat is called Charles which is quite cool though.

YANBU - You are being nosey and controlling

YABU, but I do understand how you feel.

I was saddened when I came home to find the people building a new monstrosity house further up our lane had cut down a beautiful, mature copper beech tree.
Why didn't you do anything I wailed to DH - he replied I did - when their chainsaw jammed I helped fix it!

Oldmac - I'll accept unreasonable but nosy? Really? The tree is at the front of their house. The only way I could not see it is to walk, ride or drive out of my driveway with my eyes closed. I'm not sure that's a good plan
Controlling you say? Well obviously I think I'm right but I didn't wrest the hack saw from his Telmarine hands.

Tarquin - that's not good!

my parents got very upset last year while sitting in their kitchen in their dressing gowns at 7am when they saw a man from the council cutting down the (admittedly very pretty) cherry tree on the pavement outside their house.

mum&dad both ran out, both OAPS, both fairly alarming in their dressing gowned state i would imagine, my mum in tears, and told him he had to stop. then they sat there guarding the tree for several hours until the tree man got his supervisor over, whereupon some sort of compromise was reached and the tree was just pruned a bit instead.

they are not AT ALL tree huggy type people, but evidently people get very worked up about trees. (and i still wish i could have seen the tree man telling his mates in the pub that night about the morning's events)

Hurrah for your parents!

Sadly by the time I got home today all the branches were in the wheelie bin so too late for any hugging.

nosey. you have described him and his weapons of mass desruction to a tee.
now leave him alone.

I have white stones out my front because when i had my lovely flower beds other peoples cats kept shitting and sprayng .

Tree roots can cause massive damage if left ignored so it sounds like he is just trying to avoid a problem for the whole street.

Ever smelled sewerage in the height of summer heat?

i'd cut it down just to stop other peoples e bloody cats climbing it tbh.
sorry

What sort of tree is it OP? As you love them so much. You do sound completely unreasonable as well.

A small maple. Very pretty in the autumn. Sorry was very pretty.

What kind of tree was it? Sometimes people plant trees which are lovely when small but are destined to grow into a 100ft high monstrosity which sucks all the moisture from the soil causing subsidence.... and then when you cut them down they cause heave because the moisture they used to take is now in the soil.

It's much easier and costs a lot less to remove a small tree than a large one.

Sorry x-post. What kind of maple? Japanese maples don't grow very big but could still muck up his drains.

A sycamore maple I think. I know that can get big but this was about 3 metres or so. Hardly a monster.

you want like me i had a very big tree in my garden that i had to fight tooth and nail to be removed. it kept doing so much damage even though it was suppose to be under pinned, lost count how many times it shed enormous branches and im talking 10 ft plus in my garden ,road etc quite frankly it was bloody dangerous and to this day im surprised it never hit someone after a number of near misses.. this tree had a order on it yet it had split 2 houses,cracked paths and caused damage to the road. im a firm believer trees should not be so near houses, it might be a beautiful tree but when a few years down the road roots damage your property you might see things completely different.

YABslightlymental. HTH