So the City denied me a permit to cut down a tree last year...

[exiledarchangel]

Thanks to Jake I am now aware of a creature called "arborist". My neighbour has a giant tree (dont know what, maybe a poplar) that drops limbs. So far no people (or cars!) are hurt, but maybe I'll have to call autorities and ask what can be done with this leafy behemoth.

[Pilgrim]

Thanks to Jake I am now aware of a creature called "arborist". My neighbour has a giant tree (dont know what, maybe a poplar) that drops limbs. So far no people (or cars!) are hurt, but maybe I'll have to call autorities and ask what can be done with this leafy behemoth.

I suspect preventive pruning will be very helpful.  I have a silver maple in my side yard and it drops small branches a lot - I've had a couple of cars dented.  Now I don't park under it for more than a few minutes, and never on windy days or days where there is a snow load on the branches.

[Granny Gremlin]

Yep, the left tree that didn't fall is a Silver Maple. The one on the right that fell is a Tree of Heaven ( a weed that turns into a shifty large weak tree on account of insane growth rate; not even good enough for a tone wood). It produces a stupid amount of seed clusters and spreads voraciously. There's a neighbor with 3 that I warned to remove and now are little trees, but no more than 3-5 years old. Another neighbor has 2 older daughters of my bitch.

[Dave W]

Yep, the left tree that didn't fall is a Silver Maple. The one on the right that fell is a Tree of Heaven ( a weed that turns into a shifty large weak tree on account of insane growth rate; not even good enough for a tone wood). It produces a stupid amount of seed clusters and spreads voraciously. There's a neighbor with 3 that I warned to remove and now are little trees, but no more than 3-5 years old. Another neighbor has 2 older daughters of my bitch.

That sounds as bad as our problems here with the box elder (Acer negundo), a weed tree that's the psychotic cousin of maple.

[Pilgrim]

Lovely turn of phrase there, Dave!

[Dave W]

I thought Jake's description of his neighbor's trees as "daughters of my bitch" was better.

[exiledarchangel]

I thought Jake's description of his neighbor's trees as "daughters of my bitch" was better.

LOL I didn't know if that was a misspell or not, so I chose not to say anything "smart".......
OTOH "son of a birch" sounds almost equally hilarious, I may use that!

[Granny Gremlin]

Naw, the birch is in the front and I love it (the street in Krakow I was born on literally translates as Birch St... it was the icing on the cake when we bought the place.... yes I am a nostalgic sap).