Overhanging trees and lack of hedgetrimming

[Ali_Maxxum]

Report, report, report! This is my absolute biggest bug bear around here. 2 I have reported on and off for 4 years they got so pee'd off they cut them off at the base!

Another I reported and nothing was done about it and then my brother was involved in an accident because of it, so I wrote a 3 page email with pictures to receive a paragraph response saying it had been done the previous winter. I knew it hadn't because I am the hedge cutting contractor! Stupid arse 'hedge officer' didn't know what to say to me when I gave him the exact date the last time it had been done.

Enforced a notice and I was reluctantly asked to do it, took 3 times as long as normal. I've built my case for multiple others saying I will send the council bills for my smashed mirrors etc, even invited them for a ride on the tractor to see just what it's like, they declined. Throw in that it is a hazard to life, especially if it's a dangerous road anyway and they will have to choice. Make a paper trail!

Councils are full of completely useless barstewards!!!

For something as simple as just tickling back a hedge once a year, I honestly cannot understand why it has to be turned into such a complex issue. I have gone gun ho and just done some myself in a rage. As soon as it leafs up you wouldn't know it had been touched apart from it's back 3ft from where it was before!

 

[Elpresidente]

Its the same around me, if you phone the council about low branches they snip a foot off rather than make a tidy job and people are putting signs up on garden hedges asking for them not to be cut . They soon moan when the straw wagons brush past and deposit a blanket of straw on every pass. Im tempted to pay the contractor to do some early morning work thrashing it back and say nothing. I would quite like to hire a digger with a tree jaw cutter and drive the lanes lopping it all off tbh too!

I've just emailed and challenged Ceredigion council on this matter and they are using covid as an excuse for doing naff all for over 12 months
All I hear is blah blah blah.
Whsts the legalities of just doing it yourself. I quite fancy being known as the phantom hedgecutter of Ceredigion

 

[Werzle]

I've just emailed and challenged Ceredigion council on this matter and they are using covid as an excuse for doing naff all for over 12 months
All I hear is blah blah blah.
Whsts the legalities of just doing it yourself. I quite fancy being known as the phantom hedgecutter of Ceredigion

I saw it took 4 council contractors to clear a path last week , 1 doing the job on a mini digger and 3 leaning on shovels huddled up chatting, so they couldnt use the covid excuse here. They seem to be doubling up on jobs rather than spacing out. Crazy how a council hedge trimmer needs a rear and lead escort but an agri one can do it by themselves with a sign ot two. They just love blowing money