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Girdle tree on public street?

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  • #32
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    I'm presuming it wouldn't be possible to live in the tree?

    One can only dream....


  • #33
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    looking_around wrote: »
    Use a car cover,

    they're just bees, if there's a hive, I'm sure that can be dealt with without out killing the tree.

    Covering the car every time I parked it there would drive me nuts. I would quicker dowse the tree in diesel and allow a stray spark do the job. The cover would be full of insects, though the car might be spared. Still prefer to stop the leaves growing. The other trees on the road are small by comparison and there are dozens on the road. Only a couple of others give somilar issue, but nowhere near the same amount of crap comes off them, due to their smaller size. I have parked under them before.
    My name is URL wrote: »
    You can't let your kids out to play because of the bees drawn to one single tree?

    Jaysus.. you wouldn't last a day in the country :p

    On certain days in the year, it wouldn't be safe to let my toddlers in the garden, because there can be a frenzy of mad bees, all out for blood.

    The bees should be in the country and stay out of the city. :P
    fleet_admiral wrote: »
    Build a man cave

    Ah yes. I have one already. Filled with kegs of guinness and easy women all year long.
    catallus wrote: »
    I'm presuming it wouldn't be possible to live in the tree?

    One can only dream....

    Maybe Tarzan could. But i'm too fat to climb trees.


  • #34
    Packrat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,096 ✭✭✭Packrat


    Years ago, my uncle had a similar problem with a tree in ESB property overhanging his garden. He drilled a few holes at a downward angle into it at night and fed it weed killer (brushwood killer) for a few weeks. It died, and the ESB were obliged to take it down. They had previously refused to do anything with it. Of course they suspected him, but would've had to have caught him in the act.
    Just don't keep the brushwood killer in your own house, store it at a friend's place and just bring what you need each time in a little bottle. :D


  • #35
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    goz83 wrote: »
    Covering the car every time I parked it there would drive me nuts. I would quicker dowse the tree in diesel and allow a stray spark do the job. The cover would be full of insects, though the car might be spared. Still prefer to stop the leaves growing. The other trees on the road are small by comparison and there are dozens on the road. Only a couple of others give somilar issue, but nowhere near the same amount of crap comes off them, due to their smaller size. I have parked under them before.
    So you want to kill a tree, simply because it's a bit of hassle?
    Just go park under those other trees then.

    On certain days in the year, it wouldn't be safe to let my toddlers in the garden, because there can be a frenzy of mad bees, all out for blood.

    Oh my poor toddlers, can't play in the garden on certain DAYS. Seriously. :rolleyes:
    Keep them in on those days then, the toddlers will survive.


  • #36
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Sounds like a sycamore. I have one outside my house too. It drips sap all over my car, is home to a million flies and ****ty birds, keeps the house in shadow and every autumn releases a million leaves for me to pick up. But it's the only tree on the street so I put up with it.

    I seriously doubt yours has bees in it tho OP. And if it does just find a local bee keeper and he will gladly take them.

    Just suck it up, cities need trees.


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  • #37
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Wood you knot just leaf it alone?

    I'll see myself out.


  • #38
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    I only came here to find out what a Girdle Tree was.

    Thought it was a tree with ladies' underwear hanging off it.


  • #39
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Have you considered simply not parking under the tree? Realistically what could the diameter of this devil tree be? I'm sure you could walk the extra distance in a couple of seconds.


  • #40
    miezekatze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭miezekatze


    Are there more trees like this in your estate or is it the only one? If there are more, join forces with your neighbours. I would get on to the council about it, although they don't seem to be interested in most cases. All those people just saying park somewhere else wouldn't be saying this if it was outside their own house. There's a tree like that outside my OH's parents house, every time we visit them (once a week), my car is completely covered in a lovely mix of sticky sap, dead insects and bird sh*t after just an hour or two. There are too many trees like that on their street to not park within their vicinity. IMO these trees are not suitable for housing estates and the council should take care of the issue and replace them with something more suitable.


  • #41
    minotour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭minotour


    I reckon you had your mind made up regardless. Your crowd source experiment has given you the necessary feedback to move ahead.

    Id say its come out as most are against it but thats what you would expect on a matter like this......my advice, get on with it, try not to over-think it, but id say you have failed on that already.


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  • #42
    Acedia.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭Acedia.


    Killing the tree will lower the value of your home. Concrete jungle versus leafy suburb?

    A tree surgeon could coppice the tree. You'd lose the disadvantages but retain most of the advantages of having the tree there.


  • #43
    goz83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,778 ✭✭✭goz83


    looking_around wrote: »
    So you want to kill a tree, simply because it's a bit of hassle?
    Just go park under those other trees then.



    Oh my poor toddlers, can't play in the garden on certain DAYS. Seriously. :rolleyes:
    Keep them in on those days then, the toddlers will survive.

    I had given up hope, but alas, the one condescending ass arrived in the end. A bit of hassle is a serious understatement. And you mustn't have kids. If you do, it's obviously the OH that does all the minding.
    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Sounds like a sycamore. I have one outside my house too. It drips sap all over my car, is home to a million flies and ****ty birds, keeps the house in shadow and every autumn releases a million leaves for me to pick up. But it's the only tree on the street so I put up with it.

    I seriously doubt yours has bees in it tho OP. And if it does just find a local bee keeper and he will gladly take them.

    Just suck it up, cities need trees.

    Yep, it's a Sycomore (helicopter tree :P). It has has thise yellowmjacket wasps in it the past couple of years. This year, it was a right nuisance.
    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Have you considered simply not parking under the tree? Realistically what could the diameter of this devil tree be? I'm sure you could walk the extra distance in a couple of seconds.

    If at all possible, I park anywhere within about a 20 metre vicinity. Most spaces are taken as it's a road with plenty of cars. So yes, I have considered this and do so when I can.
    miezekatze wrote: »
    Are there more trees like this in your estate or is it the only one? If there are more, join forces with your neighbours. I would get on to the council about it, although they don't seem to be interested in most cases. All those people just saying park somewhere else wouldn't be saying this if it was outside their own house. There's a tree like that outside my OH's parents house, every time we visit them (once a week), my car is completely covered in a lovely mix of sticky sap, dead insects and bird sh*t after just an hour or two. There are too many trees like that on their street to not park within their vicinity. IMO these trees are not suitable for housing estates and the council should take care of the issue and replace them with something more suitable.

    Most of the houses have a tree outside. The odd house has a street light. Only a couple of other trees come close to being as big and messy as the one outside my house. Some of the trees are quite small and are not magnets for insects and birds.
    minotour wrote: »
    I reckon you had your mind made up regardless. Your crowd source experiment has given you the necessary feedback to move ahead.

    Id say its come out as most are against it but thats what you would expect on a matter like this......my advice, get on with it, try not to over-think it, but id say you have failed on that already.

    What are you on about? If I had my mind made up, I wouldn't be asking questions here. I don't need approval from strangers on forums. Sent an email to council today and will wait for reply.

    Most people would be against it because they don't have the same problem. But, like I said, I am not looking for approval.
    Acedia. wrote: »
    Killing the tree will lower the value of your home. Concrete jungle versus leafy suburb?

    A tree surgeon could coppice the tree. You'd lose the disadvantages but retain most of the advantages of having the tree there.

    If I were to kill it (and I haven't decided to do that), I would seek to replace it with a more suitable species of tree that wouldn't become such a nuisance.

    Though I might consider a tree surgeon too.


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