herbicide vandalism - what chemical was used?

[sac-climber]

Linma, call your arborist back out to follow that root and prune it to your side of the fence.

+1 on setting up a game camera in near the fence and catching him in the act.

 

[sac-climber]

no one wins these fights just the lawyers.

This is so true in most cases

 

[Linma]

Linma, call your arborist back out to follow that root and prune it to your side of the fence.

+1 on setting up a game camera in near the fence and catching him in the act.

unfortunately, if I prune all the roots on his side of the property, the tree will probably lose stability, and will have to be taken out at that point. it's a big, fat root about 4in in diameter, and we believe one of the main structural anchor root for the tree. Under CA law, unauthorized root pruning encroaching on property is only allowed if it is causing imminent structural damage, but even then not to damage the health of the tree... and there is no damage to neighbor's structure (closest neighbor's structure is 30 ft away, 15ft higher in elevation). so... I attach the photo of the root for those interested, with holes in it that the neighbor claimed to the police it's a damage from a pick axe hitting it.. the pipe you see is a 1in water main pipe to another neighbor's property taht has been sitting exposed to the elements for over year now... the pipe is about 1-1.5ft above the excavated root (hard to judge vertical distance). Neighbor tried to hide the root by putting lots of junk shrubbery and planks around it, but I got a lucky photo shot from right over the fence looking straight down.

we tried to find a place to put a game camera, and there is no real good place for it. Police have advised against putting a camera that looks only into the neighbor's yard. I wonder if that applies if the fence line is 1ft into our property, so effectively 1ft beyond the fence is actually our property (where they dug the roots out). so we're stuck with not seeing exactly what the guy is doing behind the fence.

 

[moojpg2]

If the fence is yours/on your property line there is no reason you cant mount a wireless wide angle camera right on top of the fence looking down the property line. Its a perfectly legitimate way to catch potential intruders jumping the fence.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

I'd call the epa and say you think hes dumping poisons.i made a fuel oil company jump through hoops with that once


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[moojpg2]

Exactly call epa, he's dumping diesel fuel or the like on the ground they will be all over that.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

At the very least they will pay for lab tests


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[sac-climber]

The root looks dead to me, I'm not surprised.

 

[jefflovstrom]

What part of Ca are you in?
He should of been sued the first time he topped your tree.
Jeff