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Tree fell - who is responsible?
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:24 am
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:24 am
Neighbor’s tree fell last night and fell on my property. In your view should he be the one to pay to clean it up? It is a big black walnut tree.
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Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:29 am to Shotgun Willie
Your problem on your property unless you can prove huge negligence on their behalf. Either way it’s beneficial for parties to help each other
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:36 am to Shotgun Willie
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It is a big black walnut tree.
That is your tree now, luckily it is black walnut... find a guy with a mobile mill, I am sure someone would gladly come mill it and take it off your hands. I'd personally pay someone to come mill it for me... Black walnut goes for $9 a board foot here... it might be the best domestic tree for a homeowner to need to get rid of.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 8:37 am to Shotgun Willie
Louisiana?
Posted on 2/3/24 at 9:24 am to Shotgun Willie
Extreme ownership. Even if it is not your problem, it became your problem when it fell on your property.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 10:50 am to Shotgun Willie
Black walnut makes beautiful 4" milled slabs. Turn this occurence into some $$
Posted on 2/3/24 at 2:01 pm to Shotgun Willie
The part that is on your property is on you now.
If it did enough damage to warrant an insurance claim then the insurance might try to get money out of their insurance, but you would have nothing to do with them fighting that.
You would have had to have documented evidence of neglect on the other homeowners part for them to be responsible and even then, it's a tall task. If it's just a fallen tree with minor damage (possibly fence), you're just going to have to do it yourself/pay to have it removed.
A few months ago I had my neighbors tree fall on my brand new truck. Didn't even bother talking to the guy about it, I just filed a claim for the repairs to my truck, cut the tree up and got over it. It's frustrating, but there's not much you can do about it.
If it did enough damage to warrant an insurance claim then the insurance might try to get money out of their insurance, but you would have nothing to do with them fighting that.
You would have had to have documented evidence of neglect on the other homeowners part for them to be responsible and even then, it's a tall task. If it's just a fallen tree with minor damage (possibly fence), you're just going to have to do it yourself/pay to have it removed.
A few months ago I had my neighbors tree fall on my brand new truck. Didn't even bother talking to the guy about it, I just filed a claim for the repairs to my truck, cut the tree up and got over it. It's frustrating, but there's not much you can do about it.
Posted on 2/3/24 at 3:58 pm to Shotgun Willie
Same thing happened to me in 2020. Storm came through and blew down neighbors pine tree onto my truck. I cut the tree off the truck, sawed up what was on my property, left the rest for him. My insurance said it would be covered under my homeowners minus deductible. Neighbor, who's house you can see in the 2nd pic, never said a word to me about it.
A couple weeks after the storm I see my neighbor attempting to use an undersized chainsaw to cut up what was on his property. I watched as he got his bar stuck in the tree. LOL. He unbolted the chainsaw from the bar and left it there. Doofus.
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A couple weeks after the storm I see my neighbor attempting to use an undersized chainsaw to cut up what was on his property. I watched as he got his bar stuck in the tree. LOL. He unbolted the chainsaw from the bar and left it there. Doofus.
[/img] [/img] [/img] Posted on 2/4/24 at 11:46 am to Shotgun Willie
go rent a log splitter grab a case of beer and some steaks call some buddies
Posted on 2/4/24 at 7:05 pm to Shotgun Willie
I wish a neighbors black walnut tree would fall on my property!
Posted on 2/5/24 at 8:35 am to Shotgun Willie
quote:I’m thinking gunstocks and other cool shite.
It is a big black walnut tree.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 2:54 pm to Shotgun Willie
If you don't tell us what state you are in, you won't get a meaningful reply. As an example, many of the answers already provided are wrong if you are in Louisiana.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 3:25 pm to Shotgun Willie
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Neighbor’s tree fell last night and fell on my property
Need more details. My next door neighbors had a tree fall on the house behind them. It was a 30' tall tree that fell during the big freeze a couple years go. Ended up being super heavy on the branches, snapped, and landed on one of the valleys of the neighbor's roof. From my understanding, the "victim" had my neighbors take care of it. They cut the tree all the way up to the property line/fence. Didn't remove the rest of the tree until way later on. The stump still existed for several months. I'm assuming this was done out of pocket and not filing a claim.
Victim roof looked fine. it almost fell perfectly into that roof valley. I'm guessing as long as there was no serious damage, they just wanted my neighbors to have the tree cut up and off their house.
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