zamwiki wrote:
Be a man and grab your chainsaw (or borrow one if you don't have) and get er done.
I'll have the insured experts drop the 50 foot tall trees that are 10 feet from my house, 10 feet from my neighbor's, and have my neighbor's overhead electrical service running right next to them.
Picture of what's left. My house is on the right, my neighbor's is the darker one on the left. Their house has been severely damaged by the trees already. Those two roof peaks used to extend out further, and created a covered porch area. One of the trees left on it a few years back and destroyed their house. They have sort of let their house fall apart. The roof is covered in about 3 inches of moss, and the overhangs are almost completely destroyed by the falling trees.
Now I'll just have to go out and chop up all the trunks and get them out of here. I don't burn wood for heat, but friends and family do. I give it to them, free of charge. They just have to come get it. Two big poplar trees and a gnarly old cherry. The poplar wood is about worthless (burns too fast for most people to care for it), but the cherry would be worth something if I cared enough.
Poplar's tend to rot out from the inside, and blow over. And they grow like weeds, one tiny one in a few years could be a giant. Gotta keep them away from my house. The cherry trees are too unpredictable. They fork off from any little nick or cut it seems, that one cut down today already had a fork split and land on my roof, and a large fork split and luckily fall down parallel to my house. There were a couple birches on the far left of the picture. They were all part of a cluster of them. They started to rot out and collapse. The birch bark is strange, keeps them standing even though the insides of powder. Part of that birch cluster is what took out my neighbor's roof a few years back.
Only down side is I've removed a dozen trees between my neighbor's house and mine, for the safety of my house. But now when I look outside my back porch, I see their old dilapidated house and pile of garbage. Right behind those felled trunks is a 2-3 foot deep pile of rubbish left over from their house falling apart. A privacy fence wouldn't work too well because my house sits higher than theirs. Unless I build the fence so high that it's hideous, nothing would block the view of their house.