Generous neighbour

[onthehoof]

Thought I’d have a walk through a spinney we own which backs on to some very expensive houses, its fenced off for our cattle so don't really go in there very often, kindly neighbour obviously thought our trees needed some compost, plan to have a word tomorrow and give them two weeks to clear it, cant get in with a machine to lift it back over unless i hired a mini digger, can I report them to anyone if they refuse

 

[Hampton]

It looks a lot, but you will be surprised how much of that you can Chuck back over the fence in ten minutes

 

[tr250]

is it causing you any trouble? If not personally I would go round and politely tell them you don’t want it dumped there again and let this lot rot down

 

[Hampton]

Had a neighbour a few weeks ago kindly trim a few of his hedge side trees and drop them on my stock fence, making it no longer stock proof.
Soon had it back over, bit of anger works wonders

 

[caveman]

Local council.
Fly tipping dept.

 

[Goweresque]

Legally its fly tipping. Unlawful disposal of waste. But of course then its your responsibility to dispose of it And I doubt the fly tipping officer in your local council would do anything, there being no evidence that the neighbour did it, not that would stand up in court anyway.

Chucking it back over the fence would be my first port of call.

 

[onthehoof]

It's about 50m long probably 15 ton

 

[Tubbylew]

is it causing you any trouble? If not personally I would go round and politely tell them you don’t want it dumped there again and let this lot rot down

To a degree but how do you know there isn't any knotweed lurking in it? All of a sudden it's a proper pain in the arse.

 

[Netherfield]

Could be worse, I used to get old bikes, BBQs, prams, pushchairs,slides and various other childrens toys. Just throw it back.

 

[jimred]

Go live on the urban fringe and you'll soon get plenty of experience dealing with this kind of problem. Unfortunately there's no answer that works every time but you develop a list to work down.

 

[wr.]

To a degree but how do you know there isn't any knotweed lurking in it? All of a sudden it's a proper pain in the arse.

Quite right. We had some yew cuttings amongst garden waste thrown over our hedge last year which killed 3 big steers stone dead before they'd walked many yards from the stuff.

 

[Goweresque]

Of course to be fair to the neighbours, if they're the expensive house brigade they may have paid some landscape gardener types to do the work on the garden and it was they who chucked it over the fence, the house owner might be oblivious and mortified if it was pointed out. They might even have paid extra for 'disposal of material'. So perhaps a brief visit might be in order to find out whether they were aware and give them the opportunity to rectify before invoking the 'Back over it goes!' option.

 

[caveman]

Had the same sort of thing locally in the copse alongside a local green lane by the gardener of an adjacent house.
Fly tipping fella from the council had a word with the house owner over the phone and the problem was sorted.
Trouble is. Next will be old washing machines and other carp landing.
Don't fancy the chances of wild woodland edge flora in the above example next spring.
I mean.
Its not as if the carp is needed for pheasant cover?

 

[farmerm]

Some folk are proper cockwombles!

 

[Spuddler]

Nice slow burning bonfire

 

[farmerm]

Nice slow burning bonfire

just make sure the wind is blowing the right way...

 

[TWF]

You will get hand gates into your wood next to make it easier for them to dump their garden rubbish.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Nice slow burning bonfire

Preferably on a nice damp day

 

[betweenthelines]

Don't worry, won't be long before you get a grant for allowing "natural regeneration" on your land

But I'd chuck it back in his garden-at about 4pm on Xmas Eve

 

[farmerm]

Don't worry, won't be long before you get a grant for allowing "natural regeneration" on your land

But I'd chuck it back in his garden-at about 4pm on Xmas Eve

santa would delivery it back down the chimney...