And another bear bites the dust... mbga9pgf's epiphany....

vivatifosi

What a luxury to be able to stay where you are rather than sorting the rubbish out while you're in there. I'm sure it will be great when you're ready to move in. Oh, and be careful with those leylandii. The people next door to my MiL had some dodgy types in to cut the trees down, the trees were so tall they landed on her fence and broke it, then her next door neighbours, then her next door neighours until they took out four sets of fence panels each about 20ft apart - takes some doing!

JanCee

mbga9pgf wrote: »

I woke up having a panic attack last night at the thought. I hope thats normal!!!

Perfectly normal, it's a huge decision - you won't regret it though.

Best of luck.

mbga9pgf

vivatifosi wrote: »

What a luxury to be able to stay where you are rather than sorting the rubbish out while you're in there. I'm sure it will be great when you're ready to move in. Oh, and be careful with those leylandii. The people next door to my MiL had some dodgy types in to cut the trees down, the trees were so tall they landed on her fence and broke it, then her next door neighbours, then her next door neighours until they took out four sets of fence panels each about 20ft apart - takes some doing!

Ha ha! that does take skill.

Thanks for the gen. Going to do 2 cuts per bush, half way up and at the base, with a rope attatched to prevent it falling onto the main road on t'other side. I have a 10 ft gap to fell them into, if I miss, it will probably mean new guttering!

Seriously, I will probably cut through only so far then aim to "pull" it over in the required direction using the rope. Thats the plan anyways!

Really2

JanCee wrote: »

Perfectly normal, it's a huge decision - you won't regret it though.

Best of luck.

Yep, you S%^t a brick on your first house purchase.

nearlynew

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Ha ha! that does take skill.

Thanks for the gen. Going to do 2 cuts per bush, half way up and at the base, with a rope attatched to prevent it falling onto the main road on t'other side. I have a 10 ft gap to fell them into, if I miss, it will probably mean new guttering!

Seriously, I will probably cut through only so far then aim to "pull" it over in the required direction using the rope. Thats the plan anyways!

Have you done this sort of thing before?

mbga9pgf

Hopefully the last!

mbga9pgf

nearlynew wrote: »

Have you done this sort of thing before?

I had to cut down a load of lilandai bushes at my folks house when I was 15. I am not a tree surgeon by any means. Major b*gger, and I dont reccommend anyone plant them... they grow almost as fast as bamboo. I can understand why the owner has put them in, for privacy, but much better being patient with fir and not going for some hoofing great zombie tree!

The other concern I have is they are quite close to the house and the soil is quite clay based, dont want any subsidence due to the roots.

Davesnave

Country places are often as you are describing yours,mbga9pgf.

We insisted on the removal of the ten tonne lorry, the horse box and the industrial cement mixer before exchange. We've still had to remove many tonnes of other stuff, much of it buried in mounds on the land.

As I type, we have a 3.5 tonne hi-top van's worth of rusty corrugated iron sheeting ready to go to the dump.....probably not the one where we have almost been banned. These were two huge pig arks, well past their sell-by-date, but we didn't know we had them, because the pig orchard was so overgrown when we purchased. In there we also discovered a bath, a good number of troughs and a drivall that needs four people to lift it

We still have the previous owners' poo too, and their goats' poo that's about 40cm thick in some parts of the goat barn, which was never mucked-out. :eek:

Did I mention the car tyres? That Bob Flowerdew has a lot to answer for.....:mad:

mbga9pgf

Davesnave wrote: »

Country places are often as you are describing yours,mbga9pgf.

We insisted on the removal of the ten tonne lorry, the horse box and the industrial cement mixer before exchange. We've still had to remove many tonnes of other stuff, much of it buried in mounds on the land.

As I type, we have a 3.5 tonne hi-top van's worth of rusty corrugated iron sheeting ready to go to the dump.....probably not the one where we have almost been banned. These were two huge pig arks, well past their sell-by-date, but we didn't know we had them, because the pig orchard was so overgrown when we purchased. In there we also discovered a bath, a good number of troughs and a drivall that needs four people to lift it

We still have the previous owners' poo too, and their goats' poo that's about 40cm thick in some parts of the goat barn, which was never mucked-out. :eek:

Did I mention the car tyres? That Bob Flowerdew has a lot to answer for.....:mad:

You poor so and so! The one job I am not looking forward to is clearing and sorting the fledgling tree ridden midden out. Think thats going to take a while before I get there though! Fortunately it wasnt farmland so no problems with left over stuff. try freecycle, you may be surprised what you can shift.

One thing I havent figured out is what I am planning to do with all the cut grass in summer... I knackered our last composter by putting too much in, I wonder if a womery will digest it quickly enough?

Davesnave

mbga9pgf wrote: »

I had to cut down a load of lilandai bushes at my folks house when I was 15. I am not a tree surgeon by any means. Major b*gger, and I dont reccommend anyone plant them... they grow almost as fast as bamboo. I can understand why the owner has put them in, for privacy, but much better being patient with fir and not going for some hoofing great zombie tree!

The other concern I have is they are quite close to the house and the soil is quite clay based, dont want any subsidence due to the roots.

There's nothing inherently wrong with leylandii. Like dogs, they're only as good as their owners.

We had a row of them for privacy and shade in our last place. After 21 years, they were still only around 12' high and 3' thick, because we trimmed them. It was such an easy job, our daughter would volunteer to do it.

They do rob the soil of nutrients and aren't good near property, but that's true of many trees.