how do you kill a tree?
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nonegreen said:
Mate, you've been here 5 minutes and are trolling already, you're a bit shallow really! YOU need to get a life, sad muppet that you clearly are. I like cars but they are like plastic in the overall scheme of things. Here today and well gone tomorrow and that includes any car I'm likely to own. A tree in my garden would come before my car, period! In fact, I'd have the common sense to buy a house with vehicular access or off road parking.
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1. The human effort that goes into producing a motor car is immense and in my opinion far more important than a tree which lets face it can be planted in seconds with no real skill or knowlege. I am glad to see you have the sense to buy a house with vehicular access, thats great, but not everyone has your vision.
2. I like trees but am realistic enough to know that you dont allow your 50k pride and joy to sit out on the street getting vandalised and covered in leaves because a tree needs shifting. My time, my effort and the efforts of my fellow man are far more important than a few trees.
Re: para one.
The human effort will be forgotton in a short while, who will care about it then. It's not even important now. The best cars ever made will be done and dusted and probably off the road in a hundred years and nobody's going to get a slap on the back for having invented them. Sure they're fun to own and drive and they can massage your ego big time but I know they aren't much more then that in real terms. Your kids will inherit your values and a planet with ozone problems. They'll also wonder how this generation could have been so misguided and short sighted.
Re: para 2.
Why not? I'd have thought about that before I bought it, just a bit of common sense, certainly not vision. Heck, everybody move over, the man's got a 50k car that needs parking! You only like trees that aren't in your way.
The tree took thousands of years to evolve. Saplings can be relocated or replaced easily enough, mature trees can't. There will always be people who move somewhere not quite right for them who will cut away the greenery. Most of that will come back pretty quickly but large tree types don't get replanted or protected. Take a look around some council estates, many are devoid of mature trees and the wildlife that goes with them.
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Yikes such fuss over a damn tree.
I think trees are those things that are used for making furniture. Perhaps IkEA could be of help in answering the original question. Then again, there is not much tree in their furniture- more offal and dung and bone.
What useless advice. I shall stop writi
I think trees are those things that are used for making furniture. Perhaps IkEA could be of help in answering the original question. Then again, there is not much tree in their furniture- more offal and dung and bone.
What useless advice. I shall stop writi
Back to the original question. I too need to remove a similar tree that the council wont. The reason though is because for 6 months of the year it drops a horrible sticky sap over your nicely polished car, and ten minutes later looks like shit.
This would have never got to have been so overgrown and troublesome if the council hadn’t cut its maintenance budget two years ago, and no longer bothers to prune them etc.
This would have never got to have been so overgrown and troublesome if the council hadn’t cut its maintenance budget two years ago, and no longer bothers to prune them etc.
golfman said:
Back to the original question. I too need to remove a similar tree that the council wont. The reason though is because for 6 months of the year it drops a horrible sticky sap over your nicely polished car, and ten minutes later looks like shit.
But does the sap really matter? In the grand scheme of things, cars aren't important anyhow. Think about all the time and effort put into making that tree, and you want to slaughter it just to save your car's (probably expensive) finish??? Let the trees sap freely!!
Though seriously... I don't know if things are so much different in the UK, but around here, whenever we need to get of a tree, down it goes. One tree out of hundreds of thousands in the county isn't going to make a difference. It's an f'cking tree!
golfman said:
Back to the original question. I too need to remove a similar tree that the council wont. The reason though is because for 6 months of the year it drops a horrible sticky sap over your nicely polished car, and ten minutes later looks like shit.
This would have never got to have been so overgrown and troublesome if the council hadn’t cut its maintenance budget two years ago, and no longer bothers to prune them etc.
Have you spoken to the council recently? If they won't remove it's because they don't have a tree destruction/removal program. So you need to ask if it can be removed legally by somebody else. If it can't be removed legally then I'd suggest putting a cover over your car. That sounds simple enough to me
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If it were me, Id check council policy to make sure they dont keep records of general queries per address on file and then...
Dig some holes around the tree, pour 5kg of salt and 5 litres of diesel into the holes, and whack 50 copper nails into the tree making sure the ends of the nails have been driven deep into the tree and are no longer visible.
Give it a weekly salt watering (lots of water and salt to ensure good soil penetration) and you're sorted.
Id also plant a few more trees.
Dig some holes around the tree, pour 5kg of salt and 5 litres of diesel into the holes, and whack 50 copper nails into the tree making sure the ends of the nails have been driven deep into the tree and are no longer visible.
Give it a weekly salt watering (lots of water and salt to ensure good soil penetration) and you're sorted.
Id also plant a few more trees.
Boosted Ls1 said:
Re: para one.
The human effort will be forgotton in a short while, who will care about it then. It's not even important now. The best cars ever made will be done and dusted and probably off the road in a hundred years and nobody's going to get a slap on the back for having invented them. Sure they're fun to own and drive and they can massage your ego big time but I know they aren't much more then that in real terms. Your kids will inherit your values and a planet with ozone problems.
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You're mixing your ozone up wiv yer global warming. Not the same pan of fish. Ozone's the CFCs and supersonic aircraft.
kill the trees - kill them all 
Oh and before i forget............ if you get rid of the tree, and as you say it is mature, fully expect your house to start cracking, your driveway to bulge and rise and all sorts of shit to happen.
Tree's drink a lot of water. A big old bugger will drink a lot o'lot of water. Cut it down and all that water will seep in to the ground and cause all sorts of changes to the ground under your house. including in a frosty winter, ground heave as the water freezes and expands causing parts of your house to rise hence the cracking.
Enjoy
Tree's drink a lot of water. A big old bugger will drink a lot o'lot of water. Cut it down and all that water will seep in to the ground and cause all sorts of changes to the ground under your house. including in a frosty winter, ground heave as the water freezes and expands causing parts of your house to rise hence the cracking.
Enjoy
swilly said:Wouldnt the roots die adn then rot, following which the ground would subside into the place of the roots over time making extra space for wating, bringing equalibrium, balance and harmony back into his garden universe, and he lives happily ever after?
Oh and before i forget............ if you get rid of the tree, and as you say it is mature, fully expect your house to start cracking, your driveway to bulge and rise and all sorts of shit to happen.
Tree's drink a lot of water. A big old bugger will drink a lot o'lot of water. Cut it down and all that water will seep in to the ground and cause all sorts of changes to the ground under your house. including in a frosty winter, ground heave as the water freezes and expands causing parts of your house to rise hence the cracking.
Enjoy
having a live tree infront of your house is a hundred time's better than a dead 'un.
all this copper nail's crap make's me laugh.some of the other suggestions will work but don't you think it'll look a bit 'suss that you've asked for the tree to be removed but the council refused.
as for the people that moan about the sap dripping i suggest you don't park under the canopy
all this copper nail's crap make's me laugh.some of the other suggestions will work but don't you think it'll look a bit 'suss that you've asked for the tree to be removed but the council refused.
as for the people that moan about the sap dripping i suggest you don't park under the canopy
UKBob said:
Oh and before i forget............ if you get rid of the tree, and as you say it is mature, fully expect your house to start cracking, your driveway to bulge and rise and all sorts of shit to happen.
Tree's drink a lot of water. A big old bugger will drink a lot o'lot of water. Cut it down and all that water will seep in to the ground and cause all sorts of changes to the ground under your house. including in a frosty winter, ground heave as the water freezes and expands causing parts of your house to rise hence the cracking.
Enjoy
No
swilly said:This is a valid point. You may thinking killing the tree may solve your problem but it could quite possibly be only the start.
Oh and before i forget............ if you get rid of the tree, and as you say it is mature, fully expect your house to start cracking, your driveway to bulge and rise and all sorts of shit to happen.
Tree's drink a lot of water. A big old bugger will drink a lot o'lot of water. Cut it down and all that water will seep in to the ground and cause all sorts of changes to the ground under your house. including in a frosty winter, ground heave as the water freezes and expands causing parts of your house to rise hence the cracking.
Enjoy
How far is the tree from the front of your house?
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