customer wants tree killed

[Kate Butler]

Some of you folks might want to get in on this discussion.

http://www.lawnsite.com/showthread.php?t=147918

 

[clearance]

Why Kate? I almost dumped a big red cedar tree on my nieghbors house, from the yard of the house I was renting cause he shovelled his dogs ????e onto my lawn, I saw it, almost lost it right there but there were people around. After I moved I was gonna go back late at night with my 2101XP and just put in a backcut (favorable lean), wiser, calmer heads prevailed (my gf). Stay out of it, if you want to offer my advice, poison it with harsh chemicals.

 

[cordless saw]

Legal? Ethical? Possible....Heck yeah

Here's a news story from awhile back in a similar vein.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060105/tree_poisoning_060105/20060106?hub=Canada

 

[Kate Butler]

more information

Why Kate? I almost dumped a big red cedar tree on my nieghbors house, from the yard of the house I was renting cause he shovelled his dogs ????e onto my lawn, I saw it, almost lost it right there but there were people around. After I moved I was gonna go back late at night with my 2101XP and just put in a backcut (favorable lean), wiser, calmer heads prevailed (my gf). Stay out of it, if you want to offer my advice, poison it with harsh chemicals.

It seem to me that there was a distinct lack of information. No backstory about why the one wanted the tree gone and the other did not. I was thinking that perhaps some of the folks from this board could be more persuasive because of their own experiences with residential takedowns.

 

[jmack]

Why Kate? I almost dumped a big red cedar tree on my nieghbors house, from the yard of the house I was renting cause he shovelled his dogs ????e onto my lawn, I saw it, almost lost it right there but there were people around. After I moved I was gonna go back late at night with my 2101XP and just put in a backcut (favorable lean), wiser, calmer heads prevailed (my gf). Stay out of it, if you want to offer my advice, poison it with harsh chemicals.

fanno handsaw for the top

 

[moss]

This has nothing to do with the tree, it's all about two neighbors with control issues using the tree as the point of contention. If the tree wasn't there they'd have to think of something else to fight over. This drama has been played out a zillion times, trees on property boundaries are the perfect vector for territorial power struggles. You can take man out of the jungle but you can't take the ape out of the man.

I realize the original poster on the Lawn site was using the dispute as an excuse to ask a theoretical question "how to kill a tree?". I detect a distinct lack of imagination, it's easy to kill a tree, it takes much more to keep one alive and healthy.