Stupid, dumbazz neighbor.....

Had a 110 foot tall, 94 year old (counted the rings) oak tree cut. Perfectly healthy, not leaning one way or the other, beautiful specimen. What an idiot....

Sorry I don't have pics but who takes pics of neighbors trees.....

Who complains about neighbors? Lol everyone
 
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I hope he did something constructive (sic) with the resulting lumber.
 
It seems that people now cut all the trees they have then complain about the power bill. They don't understand what changed o_O

I hate you lost your shade Bailey Boat.

I made a thread about my AC running so much in the evening. Might have been last year.

It finally hit me that it's running more because my neighbor's four eastern white pines have died off. The evening sun is cooking that end of my house.

We planted two Leyland cypress trees just this past weekend.
 
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I made a thread about my AC running so much in the evening. Might have been last year.

It finally hit me that it's running more because my neighbor's four eastern white pines have died off. The evening sun is cooking that end of my house.

We planted two Leiland cypress trees just the past weekend.
I had a couple beside my mobile home. Snow knocked em both down. Must be the cursed ground cause of the mobile home
 
Yeah, I too hate it when people do things to their own property without consulting with me first and making sure I approve.

KMA AH.... I just thought it was a shame to cut something like that. Since you don't agree why don't you butt out....

sue them for loss of consort, and shade ;)

didn't shade my yard, no skin off my ass.... just saying...

No, he didn't do anything with the wood, went to the landfill.. wasted...
 
KMA AH.... I just thought it was a shame to cut something like that. Since you don't agree why don't you butt out....



didn't shade my yard, no skin off my ass.... just saying...

No, he didn't do anything with the wood, went to the landfill.. wasted...

Because you made it public by posting your annoyance about someone doing whatever they want to their own property in a public forum. Pretty simple. Sorry something like this triggered you to the point of posting about it. Sucks the tree is gone, but maybe ask the guy if he had a reason. You may be surprised other than assuming the worst in every situation that doesn’t fit your specific view point.

Nah...just gripe about it to a forum...


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Never had that problem.
I’ve been gone from the place I was born/family land since I was 18.

But I do enjoy my seclusion.

Yeah same here. This was my wife's family's land that we were given an acre of land. Once her grandfather died we were ready to move on.
 
Probably the same folks willing to count 90+ rings on their neighbor's tree and measure it's height.

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I'm in the process of moving to a subdivision with an HOA since our town doesn't enforce their zoning restrictions.
 
So you actually want less freedom?
I don't want renters to depress my property value and would like others to maintain their property such to not affect my property value, since it is directly tied to the surrounding properties. I realize I could just do away with it if I had lots of land, but that is cost prohibitive. Thus, a nice neighborhood, prohibitively priced with adequate covenants is the most cost effective route for me to go.

Besides, I enjoy taking care of all of my property.
 
Its been my experience that some people are just afraid of big trees in their yard, and even after explaining to them that its healthy, low risk, and providing all sorts of benefits to their home, they still want it gone.

There's also the chance that there was something wrong with the tree that wouldn't be noticed from a distance. If it had root rot, for example, it may have looked healthy in the top, but had fungi growing on the roots. With all the rain we had this winter, I've seen a little uptick in root rot. A tree with root rot usually looks healthy until the day it falls over.

I hate to see it happen, but in the end, its their property, and they get to make that choice.

Chances are, their power bill just went up, and their property value just went down. A nice, big tree can add a lot to the value of a home.
 
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Could be worse, I had a similar, but older, white oak in my back yard in Oak Park, IL. The trunk was entirely inside my fence but only by inches. Neighbor decided that the tree was why he couldn’t grow grass, and he didn’t like cleaning up the leaves from “my tree”. He had every bit that was across the property line removed, basically leaving half a tree.

Still never grew any grass although I did, and the leaves still blew into his yard, but the tree looked pretty dumb. Of course I left it standing.
 
When I was a kid, we lived in a neighborhood that was built in a thick stand of old, tall pines. We had some in our yard that the trunks were 3-4 feet in diameter. When the March 1984 tornado outbreak occurred, my neighborhood took a direct hit from an F4 tornado. It was the single most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed. Only one person was killed in our neighborhood and no houses were destroyed, though every roof was damaged, mainly by falling trees and limbs. The one guy killed had just pulled into a driveway, when the top of one of those big pines slammed down on his car and crushed him. Some of our neighbors wanted to go in and clear cut their yards afterwards, to get rid of the remaining pines. Their rationale was that the falling pines were what damaged their house (the same rationale folks use now in deciding to cut them down, but usually in association with the hurricane threat). However, as my dad pointed out, the trees were the only thing that protected us. They broke up the wind enough at ground level enough that it couldn't destroy the houses. Less than a mile away, where there were no trees, it basically scoured the ground clean in places and even destroyed some pretty sturdy brick structures. My house now has a lot of big pines in the backyard to the west and southwest, and I am leaving them the hell alone.
 
However, as my dad pointed out, the trees were the only thing that protected us. They broke up the wind enough at ground level enough that it couldn't destroy the houses.
Had a coworker, whose since retired, who has a home out on Cedar Island. A hurricane came through a few years ago and the wind pattern was such that there was a grove of pines behind his house that shielded it. He had little damage while the neighbor on either side, lacking those trees, had significant damage.

I'll have to relay the breaking the ground wind part to my wife. We have tall pine trees around our house and they make her nervous.
 
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Its been my experience that some people are just afraid of big trees in their yard, and even after explaining to them that its healthy, low risk, and providing all sorts of benefits to their home, they still want it gone.

There's also the chance that there was something wrong with the tree that wouldn't be noticed from a distance. If it had root rot, for example, it may have looked healthy in the top, but had fungi growing on the roots. With all the rain we had this winter, I've seen a little uptick in root rot. A tree with root rot usually looks healthy until the day it falls over.

I hate to see it happen, but in the end, its their property, and they get to make that choice.

Chances are, their power bill just went up, and their property value just went down. A nice, big tree can add a lot to the value of a home.

I had the tree guys come to my house when they took a break to trim some limbs that were close to my roof and even they said the tree was perfectly healthy. That tree was there when they built their home 25 years ago so it wasn't like it just sprouted up. But you're right, his property, his decision.

On the other hand large pines concern me, I'm aware of their root system and coming from GA I have seen what can happen, it's ugly...
 
How much keeps out the Riff Raff in your area.

Sent you a PM with the details, but it's a combination of things in the area I would be relocating.

What I want would be 10-50 acres with access to county water/sewer and high-speed access, but that type of land isn't available or is well out of my price range. You'd have to win the damn lottery to find anything like that here and build a decent sized house on it.
 
I’m of the opinion that sometimes taking out larger trees is a plus. I think in a landscape they can outgrow their benefits. I say this a someone im
I had the tree guys come to my house when they took a break to trim some limbs that were close to my roof and even they said the tree was perfectly healthy. That tree was there when they built their home 25 years ago so it wasn't like it just sprouted up. But you're right, his property, his decision.

On the other hand large pines concern me, I'm aware of their root system and coming from GA I have seen what can happen, it's ugly...

I’m of the opinion that sometimes taking out larger trees is a plus especially when they are close to a home. I think in a landscape they can outgrow their benefit and should be replaced with something either younger and smaller or a tree that will grow smaller. With that being said I live in a coastal area and have seen just about any type of tree you can think of blown over during hurricanes. My in laws lost several large willow oaks that were 50-60 inch caliper and in the eighty foot range during hurricane Matthew. It wasn't even a hurricane when it hit this area but it took them out and in the middle of town where there were other trees around to help block the wind.

I'm in the horticulture field on the wholesale side and while I don't landscape I do pay a fair amount of attention to where people place trees and or build their homes. Often they could pick a spot further away from trees that may be risky or plant trees that are better suited to growing within a hundred feet of a house. Chinese elms, riverbirch, even some of the larger crepe myrtles provide shade and character without being able to smash your home after a big gust of wind. I'm not saying they can't damage a home if they fall on it I'm just saying they are less risky. Some of them are more wind resistant than oaks, maples and gums.
 
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