I would get a professional in ... if the neighbour is the argumentative type someone he doesn’t recognise in a hard hat and visor wielding a chain saw is far less likely to suffer abuse than the neighbour with whom he already has an axe to grind.
Professional tree surgeons are usually pretty good maintaining a ‘professional detached manner’ when approached by stroppy neighbours too, in my experience at a previous place 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just watch he doesn’t take his fence down once you’ve put yours up, and cuts the hedge down and reclaims a new boundary line! You maybe don’t need to hear this but you probably already know these tricksy neighbours are usually very devious and manipulative. I agree if you can get someone in with a chainsaw and take the hedge back to wherever you think the boundary line is. You could always pop a note through his letterbox to let him know what you are planning (and offer the branches back) even if he doesn’t have the courtesy to do similar. Please also look out for birds nests in the hedge. Good luck with it.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree if you can get someone in with a chainsaw and take the hedge back to wherever you think the boundary line is. You could always pop a note through his letterbox to let him know what you are planning (and offer the branches back) even if he doesn’t have the courtesy to do similar. Please also look out for birds nests in the hedge.
Good luck with it.