...My elderly neighbour in her right wisdom decided to get 4 lads without masks or anything not social distancing or anything to cut down some fruit tress in her garden all day today. Then without telling me started saying that a branch of my mums pear tree was over hanging her side. She has not said anything all these years. I tried to explain that unlike her i was shielding and would look into it but I felt very pressured by her and the workmen. The quoted me £3,000 for a semi tall pear tree then went down to £1000 I cannot afford those prices and told her I would shop around but she wants me to pay to get rid of the branch on her side of the boundary. I don't really know what much these things cost and I am not willing to allow workmen in at the moment. I don't think the lady realises that there is a pandemic on. No mask or anything. It looked very shoddy.
That's outrageous, they are taking the piss probably as she's an old lady.
A couple of years ago I had 5 x large Thuja trees, like these but slightly bigger and wider...
... each was around 50 feet high, cut down, chopped into logs, and the branches all shredded into 7 full dumpy bags of forest bark, the whole lot done for £1000 cash and the job done in a day.
Normally I do my own tree felling and chopping but these were just a bit too high for me to tackle, wifey forbid me to even try.
The two lads who did it are professional tree surgeons, spikes on their feet and full on ropes and abseiling gear and were up and down the trees like sailors on rigging, that had originally come round doing Electricity Board Power Line clearance that I then asked if they did freelance.
Also, over the road from us is a field that a stream runs through, and the banks have Alders, horrible boring trees and almost a pest as the grow so quickly, that had started to shade the light from our front garden. The Farmer who owns the land got them cut down for free, the guy who came and did it simply kept the wood as payment to sell on as firewood.
I suppose it's one of the benefits of living out in the sticks as opposed to urban life, everyone has a chainsaw or two or knows someone who has.
You also have to watch out sometimes about being charged by people to take away large branches as stuff like Oak has a value in large pieces that can be sawn and seasoned and some tree surgeons make a bit of money on the side selling it on to woodworking crafts people, the same as large pieces of Cherry, Magnolia and Pear for wood turning.
It's also correct that this is not really the best time to be felling trees, they are full of sap and so much heavier than in late autumn/winter.
