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Post by zibazinski on Jul 23, 2015 10:08:37 GMT -5
We politely asked our neighbors to trim the branches that hung over into our yard because the leaves got into our pool. They weren't interested in incurring that expense so we had it done. Tree trimmer straight cut right up the fence/property line. I thought they'd die from the trauma of the way it looked. I saw the ugly side and could have cared less but they kept their tree trimmed after that.
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Post by hoops902 on Jul 23, 2015 12:38:15 GMT -5
I'm a little confused by the OP, are you killing off your plants only? Or do some of these plants start on the neighbor's side? If you're killing any plants that start on her side then I can see why she's upset. If you're only killing plants originating on your property then too bad for her.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 23, 2015 13:11:48 GMT -5
A younger guy bought the house next door to my mom's. They're a cluster of all brick to mostly brick houses. It appears that his parents are doing all sorts of work on the house, although it didn't need it at all. My mom's old neighbors did all kinds of tasteful renovations to it. Any who, they painted the trim a god awful color. Then they painted the brick. I was afraid my mom was going to go over there and get all Polish on their asses, but she didn't. It was some major uncharacteristic restraint she displayed right there, I'm telling you! Anyway, how this is related to the thread: she's a little old lady with a lot of time on her hands, and a lot of opinions that may or may not be based on reality. I just learned to ignore it over the years. That's the only way to preserve your sanity.
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Post by buystoys on Jul 23, 2015 13:29:30 GMT -5
I'm a little confused by the OP, are you killing off your plants only? Or do some of these plants start on the neighbor's side? If you're killing any plants that start on her side then I can see why she's upset. If you're only killing plants originating on your property then too bad for her. Hoops, we're only killing off anything that is rooted or hanging over onto our property. Unfortunately, no one has done ANYTHING to manage the foliage near the fence for over 20 years, so we have some trees that are rooted on our side, literally curved over the top of the fence, and the top of the tree is on her side. If we can, we are leaving anything that is rooted on her side. Sadly, though, as we pull the fence back into place, some of the honeysuckle and weeds that are grown into the fence are coming along. We're doing our best to leave her property as is and only impact ours. The majority of the removal is not from her yard, but I do admit that we caught some honeysuckle in the fence section we pulled back into place today. I can't repair it without impacting her yard somewhat.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2015 13:30:44 GMT -5
Our property has a bunch of trees that are right on the property line and we don't really know which property they are on, ours or theirs. We bought our house just before our neighbors bought theirs and a survey wasn't done, nor can we find any markers showing delineating where our property begins and theirs ends. we want to cut some of the trees down, but will have to get a survey done first. I've got a feeling most of the trees are on our property and we're going to have to cut them down. Some of them are really tall so it's going to cost a fortune. Ugh! There's a row of shrubs and a crepe myrtle tree along the property line seperating my side yard from my neighbor's backyard. When I first bought my house the previous owner said he didn't know whose bushes they were, but he'd always maintained them because she wouldn't. I kept them trimmed for the first few years, until she pissed me off. Then I started trimming just the parts you could see from my property. Then she had a lot of it cut down, including the tree. The tree came back, along with some of the shrubs and I had to get it cut back because the tree was on my house and some of the branches were so long I could barely get to the gate to my back yard. That was the first time I'd messed with the tree. Then last year, there was a huge bush that I thought had something dead in it. It smelled awful and was full of flies. Trying to get from my driveway to my front door would make you gag and constantly swat at flies. The guys that I paid to cut it down said they'd seen those bushes before and they just smell like that. I couldn't believe there wasn't a dead animal in it somewhere. And after all that, I still don't know who the bushes and tree belong to. lol
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 23, 2015 13:30:54 GMT -5
Can you spray something to just kill it?
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Post by buystoys on Oct 29, 2015 11:12:33 GMT -5
Well, we cut down 45 trees from the fence line and planted ten new trees. Here are some images if you'd like to look! Back lot projectHubby and I have not been good about taking "before" pictures, so I only have pictures from Thanksgiving 2013 that show some of the back yard we cleaned up. You can see the old barn that we took down and some of the junk that was in it. If you look behind the guys, you really can't even see the fence. The whole back length was overgrown that badly, as was about 1/2 of the side fence. I threw in a picture of the side fence as well. Now we're onto the next project: re-doing the guest room. Thank goodness we can't piss anyone off on this one!
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Post by The Captain on Oct 29, 2015 11:27:29 GMT -5
Are those two adorable dorks in the second picture your hubby and son?
Either way, nice!
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Post by buystoys on Oct 29, 2015 11:30:02 GMT -5
Are those two adorable dorks in the second picture your hubby and son? Either way, nice! My BIL and nephew! Hubby is in the first pic. It was a LOT of work, but it was SOOOOO worth it!
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Oct 29, 2015 11:31:19 GMT -5
Looks great!
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Post by busymom on Oct 29, 2015 11:36:04 GMT -5
Holy cow! That looks like it was a HUGE amount of work!
(Did you have a burn pile?)
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Post by buystoys on Oct 29, 2015 11:41:52 GMT -5
Holy cow! That looks like it was a HUGE amount of work!
(Did you have a burn pile?) Why, yes! Yes, we had a HUGE burn pile. A burn ban went into effect the middle of August and our pile was larger than hubby's GMC Canyon! We spent all day Tuesday burning. I was surprised by the small amount of ash we ended up with. We chased two rats, one guinea hen, and several frogs out of their "new" home.
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Post by steph08 on Oct 29, 2015 11:59:31 GMT -5
That is a heck of a lot of work!
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Post by dannylion on Oct 29, 2015 12:16:58 GMT -5
What a lot of work, but it's the kind you don't mind so much because you can actually see results once you're done. It looks much better now. If your neighbor had any sense, she'd be thrilled to have the undergrowth wrestled to the ground and subdued.
I'm wondering what kind of critter needed that big crate in the first picture. It looks like it could hold a Great Dane. Or a pony.
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Post by buystoys on Oct 29, 2015 12:24:00 GMT -5
What a lot of work, but it's the kind you don't mind so much because you can actually see results once you're done. It looks much better now. If your neighbor had any sense, she'd be thrilled to have the undergrowth wrestled to the ground and subdued.
I'm wondering what kind of critter needed that big crate in the first picture. It looks like it could hold a Great Dane. Or a pony. The previous owners had an Irish Setter at one time. Don't think they had him any longer when they moved, so they kindly left the crate for us. Through the neighbors, we are hearing that Ms. Cranky is now upset that we haven't done anything about the fence yet. I told DH I'm perfectly happy to just take it down and not put anything back until we've had time to remove all the stumps...... Since we don't have a gate for the new metal fence yet, we're not in a rush to replace the crappy fence. Once we find a gate hubby likes, we'll put up 6' chain link to completely enclose that part of the yard and then rip out the 4' chain link that is in the last pic. We not putting in new fence until the stumps are all out, though.
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Post by dannylion on Oct 29, 2015 12:29:57 GMT -5
Cool! Did you keep the crate? You could keep a pony in it. Or 87 Chihuahuas.
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Post by buystoys on Oct 29, 2015 12:43:04 GMT -5
We gave it to the local animal shelter. Should have thought about 87 Chihuahuas!
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Post by lexxy703 on Oct 29, 2015 14:32:32 GMT -5
That looks like a lot of work but the end result is great. I am so happy you thought of the animal shelter instead of just throwing the crate away
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2015 17:13:46 GMT -5
What a lot of work, but it's the kind you don't mind so much because you can actually see results once you're done. It looks much better now. If your neighbor had any sense, she'd be thrilled to have the undergrowth wrestled to the ground and subdued.
I'm wondering what kind of critter needed that big crate in the first picture. It looks like it could hold a Great Dane. Or a pony. The previous owners had an Irish Setter at one time. Don't think they had him any longer when they moved, so they kindly left the crate for us. Through the neighbors, we are hearing that Ms. Cranky is now upset that we haven't done anything about the fence yet. I told DH I'm perfectly happy to just take it down and not put anything back until we've had time to remove all the stumps......
Since we don't have a gate for the new metal fence yet, we're not in a rush to replace the crappy fence. Once we find a gate hubby likes, we'll put up 6' chain link to completely enclose that part of the yard and then rip out the 4' chain link that is in the last pic. We not putting in new fence until the stumps are all out, though.
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