Felling a very large tree

Figured it was worth tying for an answer on here for this one. We moved house in October, kind of noticed the large tree in the back garden, but a wayward fence made us believe it was on the boundary. Turns out its actually firmly in our garden, the shed is about to topple over due to how big its gotten. As it stands, it spans 6 gardens including our own. The tree is a Monterey Cypress, tree surgeon guessed its about 70 years old.

If it was further away from the house and in a larger garden, I'd leave it, but it'll need to come down, which is not cheap unfortunately. Does anyone know if the council will potentially look at removing a house on private land if its potentially damaging other property? I'm guessing they won't.

Also - given that there is a substantial trunk on this thing, and by accounts the wood apparently has a nice grain - does anyone know of any companies who buy the timber from private individuals? (or even better - remove it themselves and keep the wood :D)

I think you have two chances of getting the council to do it.
I'm home at the weekend and will get the number of a guy who did work out in Maynooth a while back.

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Originally Posted by JohnH

I think you have two chances of getting the council to do it.
I'm home at the weekend and will get the number of a guy who did work out in Maynooth a while back.

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Yeah suspected as much John. Have a quote of 2k, which is apparently very cheap - some other guys who've looked at it said they wouldn't be able to handle it. Will take three people three days to get through it. Its money I'd rather not spend all the same.

Have you tried this crowd http://mytree.ie/tree-removal/

Seems you ended up with one of the biggest tree's in Ireland

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Originally Posted by Gar

Have you tried this crowd http://mytree.ie/tree-removal/

Seems you ended up with one of the biggest tree's in Ireland

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Cheers - will give them a shout.

It might be a good idea to be 100% sure that it is within your garden boundary. I work with the guy who is €50k less costs out of pocket for going gung hoe and cutting own trees he believed were on his side of the boundary.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-34664897.html

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Originally Posted by Cisk

It might be a good idea to be 100% sure that it is within your garden boundary. I work with the guy who is €50k less costs out of pocket for going gung hoe and cutting own trees he believed were on his side of the boundary.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-34664897.html

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Yeah I read about that - it's definitely on our land, my missus handled the conveyancing for the purchase and we've checked the lands registry. There were several if the trees in the back gardens of the houses on our road, other owners had theirs removed while they were still manageable though.

Think it would be better if it was on the boundary though given its causing damage - council would have to do something about it then.

I wonder would the council do something about it if you contacted them and said you couldn't afford to remove it and it was a danger to the surrounding houses etc?

Might be worth a shot!

Might give them a shout and see what they have to say! Here's most of the tree -

Might actually be worth having an accidental fire in the shed.... be cheaper too I'd imagine haha

Not sure if that's in the huntstown area but we have similar trees causing similar problems at the end of our garden. One in the next door neighbours garden fell over a few months ago and squashed a few sheds and stuff


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Not sure if that's in the huntstown area but we have similar trees causing similar problems at the end of our garden. One in the next door neighbours garden fell over a few months ago and squashed a few sheds and stuff


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Its not Huntstown no. Am worried about the whole falling down on sheds thing though. The previous owner chopped branches off our side of the tree, so a lot of the weight is on the neighbours side - and theres a pretty extensive shed on that side too. Can do without my home insurance taking a hit!

Have you discussed with or approached the other neighbours to see if they would have an interest in contributing to the cost of removal. Tell them your concerns about it falling, blocking light, etc or do you think they would just say your property / tree, your problem?

For the 2k quote did that include you retaining all logs produced during removal or they take the lot? If you could retain them u could either sell off to recoup some of the expense or use to offset your own fuel costs later in the year.

Lastly what about contacting Coillte / forestry to see if they know of options or perhaps foresters who would be interested?

Quick update...anyone need firewood ? :D

Jaaaaaysus!

So what happened in the end? Who done it?

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Originally Posted by eddiem74

So what happened in the end? Who done it?

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Got a lad up from Wexford to do it, super worker. Had to pay for it myself though, as expected. Only way it appears it would have been covered if was it was growing onto power line.