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To ask for my trees back?

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atticusclaw · 12/03/2015 18:34

I'm really cross. We're having some trees taken down. We have wood burners in the house and are about to get a biomass log boiler and so the logs are really valuable to us to heat the house.

There is admittedly an enormous of wood from the trees but when I left the house this afternoon the tree surgeon asked if he could take eight barrows full (basically the whole of the back of his truck I suspect). He said we'd never use it before it rots. I was a bit flustered since I wasn't expecting it, we'd already told him we were keeping all the wood and didn't need them to remove (and no doubt sell) it. and said "um, well, um I guess so, well no let me ask DH first to make sure he's ok about it." I then had to leave the house for a couple of hours.

I've returned to find that although there is masses of wood everywhere its not all here. The reason I know this is that I saw them chain saw a load up earlier into log sized pieces and that stuff isn't there, its all big long branches left.

I'm really annoyed about it. I feel I've now been put in a really difficult position where I have to confront them about it tomorrow. AIBU to be so cross when actually we do have masses of wood. The thing is we will use it and the cost of taking down the trees was over a thousand pounds. We'd justified it on the basis that the wood it created would offset some of the cost. Its very difficult to confront them though because they'll probably just deny it.

They've also left massive stumps nearly two foot high rather than cut them to ground level as has always been done by our other tree surgeons in the past.

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AlternativeTentacles · 12/03/2015 18:41

Hi. I notice that not all the wood is here. As I said, I was going to speak to my DH first so we have costed it out and it would cost at least £x to buy the same amount of firewood so we will either need the wood back, or for you to reduce the final bill by that amount. I'll leave it with you. Also, those stumps need to be at ground level. Cheers.

WaitingForMe · 12/03/2015 18:42

Deduct it from their bill.

AlternativeTentacles · 12/03/2015 18:42

I feel your pain, I have a woodburner and would be furious is someone took some of my wood away without my permission.

zoemaguire · 12/03/2015 18:48

Does the quote mention anything about the wood? When our tree was cut down, which also cost nearly a grand, the quote was on the basis of them removing the wood - it would have cost even more if we'd wanted to keep it! Very cheeky though if nothing was mentioned!

atticusclaw · 12/03/2015 18:50

The difficulty is that actually our regular gardeners (well the ones we use a few times a year when we need something doing) have subcontracted the work out to them. The gardeners are splitting the wood for us but couldn't do the actual tree work and so I can't actually deduct anything from the bill without the gardeners suffering.

I also said to the gardeners before I left "please make sure none of the wood is taken by the tree guys before I've spoken to DH since I'm not sure what he'll say" (passing the buck was far easier than saying no but with hindsight was the wrong decision) . I've texted the gardeners to ask about it but they left before the tree guys.

Tree guy also only lives down the road from us so its really awkward. I suspect they'll just say they didn't take any.

Plus it will now be really awkward all day tomorrow. Great.

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atticusclaw · 12/03/2015 18:53

No we were very clear that we wanted the wood. The gardeners are here at the same time to split it.

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