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Chainsaw not appropriate?

31 replies

Fatstacks · 30/06/2015 20:10

This is a real one, gulp, if IABU be diplomatic please Smile

Our neighbour is a bit of a laid back chap lazy and not really a practical sort and in his garden a tree has fallen down.

We don't really speak or neighbour with them but my DP asked if neighbour wanted him to move the tree. We have a real fire and DP was convinced the tree wouldn't be moved otherwise.

Today he borrowed a chainsaw from his work and we went into next doors garden to chop up the tree.

After 5 minutes next door but one (our neighbours neighbour) came to the fence and demanded to know how long we would be.
Not in a conversational way I mean REALLY making a point of yelling 'Excuse me' at us.

She said she wanted to know because the chainsaw noise was scaring her ds, I said as soon as possible and my DP said 10 minutes.

She took her ds in and we hurried up.
Because she had said it was upsetting her ds we actually cut the tree into pieces so big they took 3 people to move, to saw later with reciprocating saw.

As we struggled to lift a massive bit of tree over the gravel board into our garden she bobbed back up at the fence and angrily wanted to know if we had finished.
DP told her yes, so she informed us 'fine I will fetch my ds out again to enjoy the garden'

I got the rage a bit hot, sweaty and carrying a ducking tree wasn't making me super patient as she stormed off to fetch her ds I asked 'why is she angry?'
She didn't hear/answer so we carried on shifting the tree.

Then she came to the fence with her ds and her two visitors to supervise us tidying up Confused

Now I know the chainsaw was noisy but here is my reckoning,

We weren't dicking about making ice sculpture we were very obviously doing a job that needed doing.
My DP was still in his uniform (army) so it clearly wasn't going to be an all night thing.
It was 14.00 on a Tuesday afternoon so not an unsuitable time.
Whilst I would do my best to avoid upsetting her ds this was one of those things she should have comforted him, not expected life to stop.

Or am I being an U twat?

OP posts:
RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 01/07/2015 01:27

SWBU

Gruntfuttock · 01/07/2015 02:04

Kytti "YANBU - you were doing her a favour. Stupid woman."

How were the OP and her DH doing her a favour?

purplemurple1 · 01/07/2015 03:29

Yanbu
But some kids are scared of loud noises so for it to suddenly start with no warning could be annoying for the parent.
We give our toddler ear defenders and let him see the machine so he can decided to leave the area or not before we start up anything loud. But I guess city folk just don't deal with this stuff day to day.

CardinalRed · 01/07/2015 06:10

She was BVU.
Nothing wrong with what you were doing at 2pm.
She had the choice of being aggravating or accepting a job needed done.
If you had been chains awing in your own garden the noise would have only been marginally less!
If she was that bothered she could have taken her child out somewhere.

Fatstacks · 01/07/2015 12:02

I was lucky with my dc in as much they never cared about noise, they just tried to out do it Blush

We were doing her a service Grunt in a cack handed way, they haven't lived there long enough to know that when my neighbour tells them he will get a skip he doesn't mean we will live long enough to see it Grin

I've just chopped and sawn supervised from the deck chair DS doing the rest of the trunk sections with no drama so hopefully it's just the petrol saw he doesn't like or the houses baffle the noise.

Must have been a heat related brain fart.

OP posts:
maninawomansworld · 03/07/2015 16:03

I would have replied to her 'It'll take as long as it takes'.

And fuck cutting it up into fire sized pieces manually! Do it with the chainsaw and tell her to sod off.

It's ONE tree - a one off and you're not doing it at unsociable hours. Even if she complained to the council they wouldn't do anything.

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