We paid £400 for careful pruning of an oak with a tree protection order. It took three men a full day, two on the ground, one swinging from ropes in the tree with a chain saw, and a large industrial shredder. I kept the shreddings for mulch and the log pile for wildlife. They have to pay for training, equipment, specialist protective clothing and public liability insurance. Bargain.
if you pay a man with a chain saw who knocks on the door touting for work, dont be surprised if it all goes wrong.
Maybe your neighbour hates the sycamore but can't afford to have it removed safely. Have you tried talking to him and offering money towards the cost.?
(@aym280, can tell you are really suffering. We haven't had the best of luck with neighbours over the last few years either. But I do remember having good ones! And I still like to think we are good neighbours, even thought my patience is quite frayed).
(@aym280, that sounds a bit too familiar. Can only hope that it will pass one day. In the meantime, perhaps more trekking around other gardens for peace of mind. And pop the radio out every so often. There's going to be no holding back with eight to a household. Four/Five is bad enough!)
1) the pot is about 10 cms tall, so the crack has raised the path by about 7-8 cms due to presumably the large roots underneath, this will only get worse.
2) There are 3 huge sycamores. Someone clearly in the past has cut some of the lower branches. I doubt they were planted with a view to be placed there, probably to screen a bit if one. But 3 together is probably how the seeds fell some years back.
3) The last two show the size of the branches how much of the tree canopy blocks the light. Also the rain can't get through makes the soil even more dry. The branches are about 4 fence widths up, so that's about 24 ft up and would need to be sawed, but being so long too are the size of small trees also.
Even young sycamores block a lot of light. I wouldn't get too prissy about the path, growth happens, and it's only concrete. The trees look like they come from the same origin, very close or the same tree.
Conifers are relatively easy to fell - most have one straight trunk and no large limbs and the stumps and roots are usually left to rot in the ground.
A large deciduous tree with a lot of limbs/boughs overhanging two other neighbours' gardens and buildings is a different matter entirely.
The price we paid was very reasonable for the job which took all day and was done professionally by a team of trained men and was fully covered by insurance.- all was cleared away and the large bole and roots were also ground away leaving us with immediately usable garden space.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That sounds great Dove, how big are stump grinders? And how much stump do they grind away?
I manually felled two sycamores that were probably under a decade each, and even they were quite hard work. Not to cut down, but rather to clear the root system.
Actually in that first photo with the pot you can see some of the seeds from the tree.... and thats all over the back of the garden, endless job of collecting them and obviously I miss some and find out when they start reseeding the following months.
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If you want an idea of cost involved, here in Norfolk we've recently paid £500 to have a mature ash felled in our garden
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We paid £400 for careful pruning of an oak with a tree protection order. It took three men a full day, two on the ground, one swinging from ropes in the tree with a chain saw, and a large industrial shredder. I kept the shreddings for mulch and the log pile for wildlife. They have to pay for training, equipment, specialist protective clothing and public liability insurance. Bargain.
if you pay a man with a chain saw who knocks on the door touting for work, dont be surprised if it all goes wrong.
Maybe your neighbour hates the sycamore but can't afford to have it removed safely. Have you tried talking to him and offering money towards the cost.?
(@aym280, can tell you are really suffering. We haven't had the best of luck with neighbours over the last few years either. But I do remember having good ones! And I still like to think we are good neighbours, even thought my patience is quite frayed).
(@aym280, that sounds a bit too familiar. Can only hope that it will pass one day. In the meantime, perhaps more trekking around other gardens for peace of mind. And pop the radio out every so often. There's going to be no holding back with eight to a household. Four/Five is bad enough!)
This is my problem.....
1) the pot is about 10 cms tall, so the crack has raised the path by about 7-8 cms due to presumably the large roots underneath, this will only get worse.
2) There are 3 huge sycamores. Someone clearly in the past has cut some of the lower branches. I doubt they were planted with a view to be placed there, probably to screen a bit if one. But 3 together is probably how the seeds fell some years back.
3) The last two show the size of the branches how much of the tree canopy blocks the light. Also the rain can't get through makes the soil even more dry. The branches are about 4 fence widths up, so that's about 24 ft up and would need to be sawed, but being so long too are the size of small trees also.
I'll go speak to the new neighbour this evenning.
Last edited: 02 August 2016 08:21:22
Even young sycamores block a lot of light. I wouldn't get too prissy about the path, growth happens, and it's only concrete. The trees look like they come from the same origin, very close or the same tree.
Conifers are relatively easy to fell - most have one straight trunk and no large limbs and the stumps and roots are usually left to rot in the ground.
A large deciduous tree with a lot of limbs/boughs overhanging two other neighbours' gardens and buildings is a different matter entirely.
The price we paid was very reasonable for the job which took all day and was done professionally by a team of trained men and was fully covered by insurance.- all was cleared away and the large bole and roots were also ground away leaving us with immediately usable garden space.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That sounds great Dove, how big are stump grinders? And how much stump do they grind away?
I manually felled two sycamores that were probably under a decade each, and even they were quite hard work. Not to cut down, but rather to clear the root system.
Actually in that first photo with the pot you can see some of the seeds from the tree.... and thats all over the back of the garden, endless job of collecting them and obviously I miss some and find out when they start reseeding the following months.
my understanding is that if a branch from a neighbour's tree lands on your property , it's your insurance who pays for any damage , not theirs.
I might well be wrong.