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Of course not. They have to cut from their side, what hangs over their side. If they lean over from their side and cut a foot or so on your side so they don't have to cut right on the line, I wouldn't make an issue of it. Last year I had a crew trim about 40 ft. of 20 ft. high hedges that overhung about 6 ft onto my property. It was a 10 year growth. I knocked on my neighbors's door and told him what I wanted to do. He had no problem with it. They actually trimmed it about a foot outside my fence over his property. It cost me $1,000. It cost him nothing.
I started this thread in 2014 and it recently got bumped six years later and I guess some people haven’t read it all. Most of the trees were hanging over my property, not the neighbor’s property whose yard they were in. It wasn’t a question of leaning over and cutting a foot on my side. The tree service did substantially all the work on my property, not the neighbor’s and they set up their trucks and wood chipper in front of my house, not the neighbor’s house which is around the block (this neighbor has the house in back of my yard). All the branches and limbs and tree trunks that were cut down were removed on my property from my backyard, down my driveway and to the trucks in front of my home. There were no tree trucks in front of the neighbor’s home around the block on their street.
I wish it had been a situation where they were leaning over a foot on my property instead of spending 6 hours cutting down massive trees with five men on my property with all kinds of equipment and three trucks in front of my home, not to mention they “cleaned up” by blowing sawdust and wood chips into the dirt around my bushes in my backyard. I spent a few hours raking and bagging about a hundred pounds of wood chips and dust.
Actually you got a bargain. If you had wanted to trim those trees on your property it would have cost you more than the thousand dollars I paid to have my neighbor's 20 ft. high hedgerow trimmed back to his property line. I wonder why your neighbor even bothered to trim the limbs on your side, unless he was cutting down the trees. Was there a fence between your yards? Have you had any issues with the neighbor since?
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I started this thread in 2014 and it recently got bumped six years later and I guess some people haven’t read it all. Most of the trees were hanging over my property, not the neighbor’s property whose yard they were in. It wasn’t a question of leaning over and cutting a foot on my side. The tree service did substantially all the work on my property, not the neighbor’s and they set up their trucks and wood chipper in front of my house, not the neighbor’s house which is around the block (this neighbor has the house in back of my yard). All the branches and limbs and tree trunks that were cut down were removed on my property from my backyard, down my driveway and to the trucks in front of my home. There were no tree trucks in front of the neighbor’s home around the block on their street.
I wish it had been a situation where they were leaning over a foot on my property instead of spending 6 hours cutting down massive trees with five men on my property with all kinds of equipment and three trucks in front of my home, not to mention they “cleaned up” by blowing sawdust and wood chips into the dirt around my bushes in my backyard. I spent a few hours raking and bagging about a hundred pounds of wood chips and dust.
Actually you got a bargain. If you had wanted to trim those trees on your property it would have cost you more than the thousand dollars I paid to have my neighbor's 20 ft. high hedgerow trimmed back to his property line. I wonder why your neighbor even bothered to trim the limbs on your side, unless he was cutting down the trees. Was there a fence between your yards? Have you had any issues with the neighbor since?
I got no bargain. They didn’t “trim the trees”, they took them completely down except they left two tree trunks about 12 feet high with no branches or limbs attached. I don’t know why they left the trunks standing other than maybe they didn’t want to pay to take the trunks down. Read the whole thread for more details as you seem to think they just trimmed a few branches.
It sounds like you were upset about the lack of notification and asking your permission, and I would be too. Apparently the neighbor got the message and asked for permission the next time, so it seems like it all worked out.
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I got no bargain. They didn’t “trim the trees”, they took them completely down except they left two tree trunks about 12 feet high with no branches or limbs attached. I don’t know why they left the trunks standing other than maybe they didn’t want to pay to take the trunks down. Read the whole thread for more details as you seem to think they just trimmed a few branches.
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