The dodgy scaffolders have been back to the building site next door. The scaffold is right up against our fence but we now have planks overhanging the kid's play area by a metre and a half, and concrete blocks stacked three metres above our bench with very little stopping them being knocked off. I'll have to remember to wear a hard hat while I'm sat out there It's a shame as the builders run the site really well, I even caught the boss telling the scaffolders to stop swearing while our kids were outside playing.
Treat it like a tree overhanging your fence, cut the planks off at the boundary and ask them if they want them back. Apparently not asking them if they want them back makes it illegal with trees, otger overgrown vegetation and windfalls. So I assume the same applies to overhanging scaffolding.
Just had P60 for my NHS pension it's only tiny had a rise of £100 per annum,puts me in the tax bracket ,(added to my State pension) and now pay £89 a year,tax!!
Something wrong there Nanny Beach. Even if the entire huge increase of £100 is taxable, the tax will only be £20. Presumably there are other pensions or income which has increased.
Dug out even more of the big stump in the front garden? We are now aware of 5 roots that are almost bigger than the trunk that came out of the roots!!!! How you might ask. Simple, the trunk comes out of a nearly metre square mass of wood that was at about the soil surface. The roots come out of that. They start off going down but dig down they start to go around. I've seen photographs of girdling roots and in wonder whether there is a big rock under there and the roots kind of grew around it and eventually merged into that mass of wood. It's not as solid as trunk wood, for the mass. The roots below it are more solid.
Anyway I bought a new, longer handled axe and had at a few roots. Lots of chips flying off but it's like we're getting nowhere. If it wasn't so bl00dy difficult to get a tree surgeon to even take a look we'd not be attempting its removal. Nobody wants to arrange a visit let alone quote for the work.
We're wondering if there's a kind of chainsaw that'll be good for at least cutting part of the stump mass away? The stump is next to a retaining wall over the footpath and access is via a narrow set of stairs. Not sure we could get a wheeled stump grinder up there so easily. I think it'll be brute strength unless there's a mechanised tool to make it easy.
I don't think any kind of chainsaw would do the trick there and would probably be dangerous. The only thing I can think of would be a jack hammer? or poison. Do you absolutely need to get it out?
That's the kind of thing I'd do @pansyface. Am I eco or lazy? It occurs to me that lazy gardeners might have eco credentials that they haven't got around to acknowledging.
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Anyway I bought a new, longer handled axe and had at a few roots. Lots of chips flying off but it's like we're getting nowhere. If it wasn't so bl00dy difficult to get a tree surgeon to even take a look we'd not be attempting its removal. Nobody wants to arrange a visit let alone quote for the work.
We're wondering if there's a kind of chainsaw that'll be good for at least cutting part of the stump mass away? The stump is next to a retaining wall over the footpath and access is via a narrow set of stairs. Not sure we could get a wheeled stump grinder up there so easily. I think it'll be brute strength unless there's a mechanised tool to make it easy.