i have to renew all the fence but there is a simple chain link fence
and my neighbour has planted trees and shrubs right on the fence line
!
this is my side which has to be maintained by me , but to erect the
fence i have to remove or cut into the plants that he has planted slap
bang on the fence line !
i dont want to get into a dispute but how can i build the new fence ?
if i cut into the half of the tree to enable the fence the tree will
presumably die as half the trunk will be removed .

"OrangeMan" wrote in message
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i have to renew all the fence but there is a simple chain link fence
and my neighbour has planted trees and shrubs right on the fence line
!
this is my side which has to be maintained by me , but to erect the
fence i have to remove or cut into the plants that he has planted slap
bang on the fence line !
i dont want to get into a dispute but how can i build the new fence ?
if i cut into the half of the tree to enable the fence the tree will
presumably die as half the trunk will be removed .

Don't know about the legal position but it seems to me he shouldn't have
planted anything directly on the boundary line and that you have a perfect
right to shave his trees off on your side if you so wish. Of course it's
best not to get into conflict over these things but I would on no account
move the
fence onto your side a little to let you build it as you may eventually lose
our rights over the strip of your land on his side of the fence.

You don't say what type of fence you are building? If it's just horizontal
wires between concrete posts then could you snake the wire around the trees.
If it's a solid fence ( i.e timber ) could you not build a picket type fence
( vertical timbers or pales ) and simply omit timbers or cut to shape when
you get to an obstructing tree? I've seen fences/walls make allowance for
trees in this way before.

It seems to me that if your neighbours insists on the fence being chain link
then he'll have to help you out somehow otherwise you just can't do it
properly. I would have thought that at least the shrubs could be hacked off
on your side without dire consequences. As for the tree, how about
resituating posts on either side of it so you can take a chain link fence up
to the tree on both sides but break it where the trunk is.

More radical, can you use the tree itself as a post for anchoring chain link
( break the chain link at the tree so it doesn't have to go around one side
or the other. A few vine eyes screwed into its trunk won't hurt it. Just a
few ideas......

Andy

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More radical, can you use the tree itself as a post for anchoring chain link
( break the chain link at the tree so it doesn't have to go around one side
or the other. A few vine eyes screwed into its trunk won't hurt it. Just a
few ideas......

Or even drill holes right through the trees and pass the straining wire
through.

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from "andrewpreece" contains these words:

More radical, can you use the tree itself as a post for anchoring chain link
( break the chain link at the tree so it doesn't have to go around one side
or the other. A few vine eyes screwed into its trunk won't hurt it. Just a
few ideas......

Or even drill holes right through the trees and pass the straining wire
through.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/