that'll buff right out.

Prick with ears!

If someone wants/needs to build closer than allowed to the boundary, they dam well clear it with the neighbors. Otherwise, rip it down!
Trees, wow! I reckon that would be the most valuable tree on the planet.

I'd be concerned about a fire of unknown origin occuring

It may vary from state to state, but in Texas, you own form the ground to the sky at your property line and can do what you chose to things imposing on your "land". At least that's what I've been lead to believe but have no statute to cite. However, there's seldom a dispute because most reasonable people talk this sort of thing out.

All trees on or near the property line are a problem or a potential problem.

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Originally posted by bald1:
Bets are something else was going on between the two. Leaves falling and blocking gutters on the neighbor's home that initiated the tree cutting action perhaps. Regardless this was NOT the way to solve anything.

Missed this one earlier. Leaves in gutters are not an issue as there are no gutters, soffits, or covering over the roof rafters for leaves to be an issue. He may actually finish the building in the next decade.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
All trees on or near the property line are a problem or a potential problem.

Not if you're not an ass. He could have gone over to the neighbors and said I have these concerns about these certain branches, or even anything that overhangs my property. Can we have a discussion on how I can trim it to alleviate my concerns while respecting your property? Heck if you you don't like the tree we can take the whole thing down and split the cost.

My next door neighbor asked for my permission to trim his tree over my property. I happily said yes, let me know when, I'll move my cars and the crew has permission to use my yard or driveway to get their work done.

ETA the neighbors tree that was butchered, the owner happens to own a landscaping business and has a fire pit in the back yard, so even if the rest comes down either from damage to tree or aesthetics he's got the tools and skills likely plus a fire pit in the backyard.

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All trees on or near the property line are a problem or a potential problem.

We've got a part of our property line that had a 4" cherry tree directly on the line. It was of little consequence in a non-strategic section of our fence line. Made agreement with neighbor, no problem & shared building the special section of fence to accommodate.

In recent few years, the tree has become almost huge, with a now-14" trunk requiring revisiting the fence line.
Still get along with the neighbor. Big winds last fall weakened part of the fence, and his dog knocked it down chasing a small deer herd.

Neighbor rebuilt about 20' of fence himself with no complaints.

He said he has no interest in the tree, I can do what I want with it. Another few seasons & it'll make tremendous cherry fire logs.

Kinda makes me glad that all my neighbors tree service did was cut down three panels of my picket fence to get their boom truck where it needed to go to remove his trees. No notice and no permission of course, but much easier to fix than that tree butchery.

When I was a kid our back yard was lined with these gigantic beautiful pine trees. Yards were large enough even if they fell the only damage would have been to our fence but the branches probably extended a good 8-10 feet over the fence into the neighbors yard. Never had any issues.
We got new neighbor lady in the back and she was a nasty lady all around for some reason.
My mom is such a sweet lady barely has ever said anything ill of anyone.
My mom only referred to this lady as the witch. I was a young kid so I actually took it in a literal sense thinking see was a true witch.


Well one night out of the blue she started spraying gasoline all over the branches of trees when I was playing out back. As I said I was a little kid maybe 6 so I had no clue what happens when gasoline fumes meet flames. Well, for damn sure if she did not light them on fire.
To see the flames erupt like I had never seen before I thought this witch was casting spells and I was then really scared to death of her.
Thankfully I guess the the gas and needles acted more like flash paper the trees did not actually catch on fire. Just flashed off most of the needles on the back side.
They all grew back to normal after a couple years.

I know my mom yelled over the fence at the lady but not sure any else was ever done or not and the lady did not cast any more spells that I know of.

Neighbors are weird sometimes.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
It may vary from state to state, but in Texas, you own form the ground to the sky at your property line and can do what you chose to things imposing on your "land". At least that's what I've been lead to believe but have no statute to cite. However, there's seldom a dispute because most reasonable people talk this sort of thing out.

California you can vertically up your property line provided:

A. You don't cross the property line to access/ climb the tree
B. You don't destroy the aesthetics of the tree
C. Your actions don't result in killing the tree.

You can be fined up to 3x the value of the tree not to exceed $30K

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Originally posted by Flash-LB:

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Originally posted by 1s1k:
I’m surprised he cut it were it’s on the owners property. Where I live you can cut any part of a neighboring tree that hangs over your property. I’ve seen utility companies massacre a tree way worse than that.

Same where I live. If it goes over the fence, I can cut it off.

You’re darn tootin’. Same here. If it hangs over my fence I do what I want.

Really makes me appreciate good neighbors even more.

We had a storm take down a large branch off one of our trees. It came down mostly in our neighbor's yard, bringing down a section of the fence.

We arranged to have our son come to cut up and remove the branch, and repair the fence that next weekend. We talked to our neighbor who said "sounds great, no hurry", and that was the end of it.

I don't think jail would be worth it over a stupid tree. He has rights to cut the limbs down over his property line. I suspect the tree trimmer is to blame here.

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Originally posted by ThankGod4Sig:
I don't think jail would be worth it over a stupid tree. He has rights to cut the limbs down over his property line. I suspect the tree trimmer is to blame here.

Beyond that, I really wonder about anyone with so little impulse control that would make idle threats over civil issues.

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Originally posted by ThankGod4Sig:
I don't think jail would be worth it over a stupid tree. He has rights to cut the limbs down over his property line. I suspect the tree trimmer is to blame here.

It's easy when it's not your property. The neighbor, he needs his mouth washed out with buckshot. In Minecraft, of course.

It ought to be equivalent to armed destruction of private property with a deadly weapon, whatever legalese that equates to, and as such fully within ones right to defend with exteme prejudice as though their own life were in danger, no different from a crackhead swinging a chainsaw in your livingroom.

I would support this legal doctrine.

Shoot them on sight. YouTube it. Sell tickets.

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Originally posted by bald1:
Bets are something else was going on between the two. Leaves falling and blocking gutters on the neighbor's home that initiated the tree cutting action perhaps. Regardless this was NOT the way to solve anything.

I had a neighbor plant a tree about 6 feet from our property line. Thing got around 30 feet high and dropped leaves 12 months a year.

He was to the East of me and the prevailing breezes are from the direction, so every day I had to clean his leaves out of my pool.

I figured out what that tree cost me and it turns out the total out of pocket to me was $300.00/year in increased pool filter and filter cleaning costs.

I asked the neighbor and his wife several times over the years to at least cut the tree down lower or cut it down and his answer was "No, I love that tree."

So I had my gardener cut anything that came over the fence for 7 years.

At the end of 7 years I was in another State doing a job and when I got back, the tree had been cut down. The guy who owned it came over and apologized for not cutting it down earlier. I asked him when he was going to pay the $2,100.00 that tree had cost me over the years and he just turned around and walked away. He sold the house a few months later. Good riddance.

Overhanging trees.

Fencelines

Water runoff

Septic fields

I'm so damn glad I'm retired and will never have to handle another call concerning any of those. Working in a small rural county I've had a judge pull me aside and (jokingly) threaten to jail me for contempt if I ever referred another civil case to his court. Issues like this can easily escalate to all sorts of weirdness, including a guy barricading himself inside his condemned single wide and shooting at us when a we tried to serve papers on him.

Fences don't make good neighbors. Good fences and a couple hundred acres of buffer makes good neighbors.

Neighbor in Vegas had a 50 foot plus Eucalyptus on the property line. It started shedding thousands of BB type seeds. Covered my rock and patio in that corner. (Nasty F'in trees)
On round two of cleaning it up I decided to ask if they could please trim i so it wasn't over my wall. Told her I'd be happy to pay for it. She apologized for the mess.
I worked from home and about a week later I hear a chainsaw. Then landscaper asked for access to my yard to retrieve the limbs that had fallen in my yard.
I asked and found out that they took the entire tree down for $200.
I put $200 in an envelope and delivered it later that day.

I suspect that they were wanting it gone as well and my polite request set them in motion. I was just really glad to have it gone.
Did I mention those are nasty f'in trees?