Is our neighbour being unreasonable?

[busyboysmum]

Dh is a landscape gardener and yesterday came home with a load of trees for our log burner.

He needs to chainsaw them up. He did some yesterday between 4pm - 6pm and came home early today to try to get the rest done so started around 2pm.

Our neighbour has just been round to tell him to stop as the noise is driving her and her son who is 17 mad. So he said no problem and stopped.

But now we are unsure how to chop them up so there's a massive pile of trees on our front drive.

I think she's being unreasonable. If there was any time she was out he could do it then but she doesn't seem to work and only leaves the house to take their dog out for a wee in the back garden.

Thing is the noise didn't bother me and dh was sawing it right next to the kitchen down the side of our house. She is on the other side so I can't see how she's got so wound up about it.

Is she being unreasonable or are we? And how can we chop up the rest of the wood? Are electric saws quieter as we could buy one of those if so?

[mollie123]

YANBU to want to saw up the trees
YABU - to witter on about rights (which come with some responsibilities) when the courteous, considerate thing to do would be to have had a word with your neighbours first. It is not a case of 'asking their permission' but being a good neighbour would at least be considerate enough to get them 'on side' first.
I am glad I don't live next door to some of you on here who seem to think anything goes, any time, anywhere

[Muskateersmummy]

Blimey, I really don't think you were being unreasonable. Almost everyone round by me uses chain saws to sort their logs at some point. No one ever warns anyone or complains, but then we were in a small hamlet. It was during the day. They have no reason to complain. And I would certainly rather one afternoon of annoyance than an hour of it every day for several days.

Your dh is way too nice, I'm guessing he will be using an axe then.... But I would lay bets she will complain about the thudding of the axe too!

[busyboysmum]

I suppose it's reciprocal really. If they had ever asked our permission to do anything then it would have set a precedent between us. (and ironically he does own a chainsaw himself which he has used in the past to chop down his own trees and chop them up). But they never have and neither have we. No-one down this road has ever come to us to ask permission to do anything and so it never occurred to me.

[PuppyMonkey]

Your DH is BU.

Why on earth did he say that, the twit.

[busyboysmum]

Ha ha. No idea. He just hates conflict and upsetting people.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

It's good that he is a considerate neighbour.

However it is well within your rights to chainsaw logs in your garden during reasonable daytime hours.

I'm miffed at your dh for being a bit of a walkover but each to their own and all that.

[Collaborate]

What - so they've used a chainsaw to chop up trees in the past and not checked with you it's OK?

I give up.