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am talking Massive Trees! Old, decrepid, dead-in-the- middle trees. Way way way older than my house! Maybe a 1000 ft would be a more accurate description! Not just a matter of climbing a ladder and sawing a dead tree limb off!!

And the neighbour who owns the trees is adjacent-not 'next door'. Its hotel grounds.
My h.a wont be arsed now its growing leaves again -'wrong season' i'd be told!

The law states that if you cut trees down which are overhanging your property (But the trees are on someone elses property)you must throw back the cuttings, I know that sounds stupid but otherwise you could be prosecuted for stealing, The law can be daft at times I know.

OH MY F IN GOD!
Just burn the f in thing down ffs!

get intouch with local councillor. a neighbour across the road had same trouble the tree has gone now.

Had similar with a big old oak tree on BR land, they sent out tree surgeons to sort it and then found out that they had just sold the paddock to someone else, my next door a...hole of a neighbour. But just an illustration of the fact that if you get onto a councillor they will sort it out for you, if they are any good.

As you are not the owner of your property and this is a dispute with neighbours property, I would be cautious about doing it yourself.

Also there may be a tree preservation order on them, in which case you need permission to even prune them.

you must have seen the size of it DD? (Right of the drive). Certainly wont be a diy jobby!

You need to "girdle" the tree. No need to climb it or pay anyone to do it. Just sneak in one night with a chisel and strip off the bark in a ring around the tree.

Just below the bark there is a thin layer of tissue called cambium. It is the part of the trunk that is alive (the wood, which is the phloem, and the bark are not alive).

One of its functions is to transport substances between the leaves and the roots. If you ring bark the tree (this is also called girdling) you will cut this line of transportation between the roots and the leaves.

The place wouldn't even notice, no fuss or legal issues. Any vandal could have done it ;-)

Wud this cause it to 'fall over+ die' taking me, asleep in my bed, with it tho?

well, judging from Neil's post he suggests that the tree is already dead and that the leaves are just being fed by the thin layer under the bark, so I would take it that the tree could fall over anytime! (Hope it does not RudeBox) Neil is a clever boy.

The tree wouldn't fall over and squish you. The strength of the tree is in the centre. It would just kill it and then the owners would have to take it down.

At least there is one good thing, it won't be getting any bigger :-)

Ok. Thanks guys. I shall be onto the newly-elected councillor next week!

Sorry Nigel but if the leaves are alive the tree is alive.
What Neil is suggesting is a quiet, surreptitious way of changing that
A tree is a 2 way system with water and minerals coming up from the roots and energy/food coming down from the leaves. Stop either route and the tree goes bye bye.
It's not instant death but it's quick enough.
It'll take a fair bit longer for the tree to rot enough to become a danger.

Thankyou- i shall girder the mo-fo. Midnight tomorrow!