Our new neighbor is chopping down a beautiful old sycamore

[wtmusic]

60 ft tall, maybe 80 years old--to put in a swimming pool.

It's his tree, dammit. But the sound of the chainsaw is making me sick... :(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How sad is that, my dear wtmusic...

I'd say my priorities don't lie in that direction either....

I wonder ...did he need a permit to cut down the tree?

Many communities require those....

I am sorry... :hug:

[wtmusic]

2. My wife is checking on the permit

Of course it's too late now, but I want to make sure he's not stupid enough to start going after the silver oaks on the parkway (city property).

Thanks for your kind thoughts. I really do need to just let go of this stuff. :crazy:

[BOSSHOG]

3. Ask the new neighbors

if they would like to have a new tree as a welcome to the neighborhood gift. Encourage and help them plant a new Sycamore in; sort of an anniversary to their moving in.

We value trees down here in Mississippi cause Katrina took so many away from us.

[wtmusic]

7. You must be right on the coast

because it would take a helluva wind to bring this one down.

Weird thing is, he says he will be planting new trees...must be a control issue :silly:

[BOSSHOG]

11. 50 miles as the crow flies

Katrina took down a lot of Pine and Oak. Interesting destructive patterns. The pine broke anywhere from half up to ten feet off the ground, most of the Oak toppled from their base. The trees fell northeast to southwest parallel to and not on the house. Lucky us. We have a lot of baby Oak and Pine now, so this season is our maternity year. Next season we start with the caring and cleaning up around our new babies. And we got a bunch of new Mimosa all over. Mother Nature has been good to us.

[dropkickpa]

4. I would kill for a house with a big tree

in the yard. Idjits.

[Sequoia]

8. When I moved to the place I live now it was because of a big tree

So we sign the lease and all that. Come back to check it out and the tree had been cut down. "The wind was really strong and we were very afraid, so afraid the tree would come down." Damn! Now it's hot as hell with the sun at this time of year bearing down right in the bedroom.

[spinbaby]

10. Ever live with a big tree?

The kind where nothing grows under them except moss? And they deposit a thick layer of leaves on everything and especially your gutters every fall? I like trees, but wouldn't want a large tree on my small lot because then I couldn't garden. Our trees are all neat little dwarf apple trees.

[dropkickpa]

14. Yep

I loved it and miss it terribly.

*edited to add - I don't garden, my black thumb is famous the world over

[BOSSHOG]

17. They do enable a love hate relationship

And some get disease and some die and some drop big limbs on the yard. They have numerous pluses and numerous minuses. I found out the minus parts the hard way.

[chaska]

5. I hate people like that.

[Darth_Kitten]

6. 60 ft tall?

It's terrible to cut that down, but also, isn't that dangerous?

[caty]

9. Some people just do not

value nature. We had some new neighbors who moved into the place next door to us up north. The husband was bragging to us about how he had shot eight chipmunks. We were shocked and saddened. Every morning when we wake up, we toss peanuts and corn on our front porch. While we are getting woken up, we watch the chipmunks come on the porch to eat and play. How could anyone shoot a chipmunk and then think it was something to brag about? The same with trees. Once they are there, they should be left to grow to their full potential, unless they are causing a danger somehow.

[Coventina]

12. I have to leave when trees are being cut down. It does make me sick.

The city where I live LOVES to cut down big, mature trees and replace them with little spindly ones. It drives me to tears.

It's amazing how many people hate trees. "They make a mess." "Birds roost/nest in them." "If they're big they must be dangerous."

:eyes:

[barb162]

13. Bad news; I hate when trees go down

I believe in planting them; lots of them!

[cobalt1999]

15. That sucks.

I love trees. My neighbor cut down all of his after the swarm of hurricanes that hit Florida a couple of years ago. I still have mine even if they could pose a danger to the house. It's worth it.

[Shine]

16. Damn, that would make me sad and mad to see that.

any chance it's a heritage tree? Around here, if the trunk is past a certain width, you have to get special permission from the city to be able to cut it down, even if it's on your own land.

Poor tree. :(

[tmlanders]

18. My ex-neighbor asked me to take a big maple tree down

Why? Because he planted lilac bushes UNDER it and now the bushes weren't growing. Duh! He was someone who was very annoying to begin with. He snow-blowed a path through my yard the first year he lived there so that his daughter could catch the bus on my safe street and not on the busy street he lived on. Now, if he had asked me I would have of course let him do it. But he didn't ask, and that pissed me off. So when he asked me to take down my 50-60 foot maple I told him that I would take down every other tree on my property before I would touch the maple. He didn't ask again!

Oh, yeah, he moved my dogs' invisible fence away from the property line so they would be further away from him. He asked me if he could move the fence and I said no. Well, I was training a new doggie on the fence and had to put out the flags so he would know where the boundary was. Well, if it wasn't in about 20 feet from where it should have been!

Neighbors... :grr: