To think neighbour should shift tree asap?

[Moveyourbloodytree]

Enormous conifer tree of neighbours came down in the storm on Friday. It didn't look unstable or unhealthy to be fair.

It was planted very close to the boundary between our gardens and it has fallen straight across our garden horizontally. Luckily not much damage caused apart from an old piece of play equipment that’s no longer used. It is however completely blocking access to half of our garden and our shed.

Neighbour was out at the time so popped a polite note through the door with our numbers so they could arrange access and whatnot. We’re on polite terms with them but don’t see much of them really.

Transpires his grand plan to get this 40+ foot tree out of our garden is for him and DH to chainsaw it themselves and use our green bin and his to remove it. Pointed out that we couldn’t even get to our shed to access our chainsaw and even if we could there’s not a cats chance in hell the blade would go through the trunk. He just shrugged nonchalantly and said it would get sorted.

AIBU to be annoyed that his tree falling in our garden somehow means we’ve got to pitch in sorting it and if I’m NBU how do I politely tell him he’s crackers if he thinks there’s any solution bar him putting his hand in his pocket and paying for a company to come deal with it?

Your housing association are wrong. It is there responsibility and they should be going via their insurance.

I feel your pain. Our neighbours dodgy and rickety fence (already battered from the previous storm) came down on Friday. Our garden now opens into theirs and we can’t let our dog out into the garden as he’ll just wander through. So far it has been a week and they have done nothing about it!

We had exactly this scenario last week except thankfully the main part of the tree fell a to our garden and the other 2 boughs fell across the boundary fence threatening to break it and cause damage their side .Thankfully it happened early and we were able to get hold of our tree surgeon who came straight round and removed it .We were covered by our insurance as it happened so it is worth your neighbour checking .
We know that loads of people were after him for his services that day so as said it may take a while, we were just lucky we phoned first, We would have paid if our insurance hadn't covered as it was our tree.
Good luck with your neighbours.