Al33
Senior Member
WARNING: This is gonna get kind of long and wordy, but there will be plenty of pic’s and I will do it in parts.
Part 1:
I moved into this little frame home March of 2005. The spring storms kept me concerned about two huge trees in my front yard but which are located on the road right of way. Over the years the power company has kept the limbs trimmed off the road side of the trees which left all the heavy limbs on my side and several of them extended 15” over my roof. In addition to this problem, there was no ground to support the root structure on the much lower road side of the trunks. The soil on my side of the trunks is about 4’ higher. The water runoff from the hill behind me ends up here making the ground more saturated than anywhere else. Naturally, I was very fearful the trees would crush my little home and perhaps with me in it.
I kept telling myself I needed to get the county DOT to do something about it but did not get around to it until July of 2005. The storms spawned here by hurricane Katrina were constant reminders to make the calls. I’ll spare the details about the red tape involved, but the county said it was a city problem and the city said it was a county problem. Both sent out investigators which concluded it was the others jurisdiction. I was also told no one could cut the trees unless they were dead. Anyway, ten months later and untold number of phone calls and emails, the tree cutters showed up.
This pic shows the huge red oak and just beyond it is a double trunk hickory covered in ivy.
Part 1:
I moved into this little frame home March of 2005. The spring storms kept me concerned about two huge trees in my front yard but which are located on the road right of way. Over the years the power company has kept the limbs trimmed off the road side of the trees which left all the heavy limbs on my side and several of them extended 15” over my roof. In addition to this problem, there was no ground to support the root structure on the much lower road side of the trunks. The soil on my side of the trunks is about 4’ higher. The water runoff from the hill behind me ends up here making the ground more saturated than anywhere else. Naturally, I was very fearful the trees would crush my little home and perhaps with me in it.
I kept telling myself I needed to get the county DOT to do something about it but did not get around to it until July of 2005. The storms spawned here by hurricane Katrina were constant reminders to make the calls. I’ll spare the details about the red tape involved, but the county said it was a city problem and the city said it was a county problem. Both sent out investigators which concluded it was the others jurisdiction. I was also told no one could cut the trees unless they were dead. Anyway, ten months later and untold number of phone calls and emails, the tree cutters showed up.
This pic shows the huge red oak and just beyond it is a double trunk hickory covered in ivy.