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Trim your trees (self.Blind)
submitted by DrillInstructorJan
It is spring in england and this means that all of the plants in people's gardens have decided that it's time to get big and leafy. This is lovely and the world is full of tweeting birds and the sound of people trying to get lawnmowers to start.
Here's the problem. I don't really need much space between the pavement and the lowest hanging branches. I shop in the hobbit section. So if your plants are hanging so low that they knock my hat off, they really are in absolutely everyone's way. Lots of people's hedges in the UK are made out of some sort of spiky bastard of a bush that smells strongly of pine resin, which is fine, but as a result I also wind up smelling of pine resin and carefully disentangling bits of twig from my hair, which is not so fine. I have eyes. They don't work, but I have otherwise normal eyes and they do still hurt if you jab sticks in them.
Dear world. Cut back your damn hedge or I will, and I don't think you'd enjoy my topiary skills very much even if I could see.
Here's the problem. I don't really need much space between the pavement and the lowest hanging branches. I shop in the hobbit section. So if your plants are hanging so low that they knock my hat off, they really are in absolutely everyone's way. Lots of people's hedges in the UK are made out of some sort of spiky bastard of a bush that smells strongly of pine resin, which is fine, but as a result I also wind up smelling of pine resin and carefully disentangling bits of twig from my hair, which is not so fine. I have eyes. They don't work, but I have otherwise normal eyes and they do still hurt if you jab sticks in them.
Dear world. Cut back your damn hedge or I will, and I don't think you'd enjoy my topiary skills very much even if I could see.
bscross32 10 points 3y ago
Get a chainsaw and just start whacking branches off.
titans856 15 points 3y ago
Blind wielding chainsaw, what could go wrong
bscross32 5 points 3y ago
Eh, I've done it before. Only one near incident.
DrillInstructorJan [OP] 2 points 3y ago
Yeah. This should be in the future of non tree trimmers. Can I have a go?
bscross32 2 points 3y ago
lol
zosobaggins 7 points 3y ago
Cities I've lived in usually have had maintenance and public space numbers to call, and they'll come out to trim the tree if it's a danger in any way. I especially love it when the homeowner gets upset, and the city cuts it perfectly along the property line, it makes the tree look like it ran out of ink halfway through printing.
TheSecretIsMarmite 3 points 3y ago
The UK is quite, er, interesting arranged when it comes to who might be the person to call. It could be, depending where you are, the county council, the city council, a borough or town council, a parish council, district council or unitary or metropolitan authority that is responsible for enforcing hedge overhanging miscreants.
Its usually advisable to start with whoever you pay your council tax to and work your way either up or down from there.
Its usually advisable to start with whoever you pay your council tax to and work your way either up or down from there.
bradley22 1 points 3y ago
Exactly.
ABlindManPlays 6 points 3y ago
You can always hold a chainsaw out in front of you as you walk. It'll get rid of branches... trees... railings... people...
DrillInstructorJan [OP] 3 points 3y ago
Stand aside! Coming through!
The only problem is you'd have to wear a raincoat.
The only problem is you'd have to wear a raincoat.
AlmostBlindBitch 3 points 3y ago
Half my face gets sore aand scratched for this reason. It takes 10 minutes I dont get why people dont do it.
DrillInstructorJan [OP] 3 points 3y ago
Is it always the same places? Can you contact them and complain?
JynxBJJ 2 points 3y ago
I wear a baseball cap almost all of the time when I’m outdoors, just for this reason. Even with a seeing eye dog she occasionally won’t recognize that a branch will hit me in the head. It’s saved me quite a few bumps.
DrillInstructorJan [OP] 2 points 3y ago
I have quite a broad brimmed bright red fedora I like to wear and it's getting quite scratched up from this stuff.
guitarandbooks 1 points 3y ago
This has happened to me in many places I've lived and it's really annoying! Walking with my cane or guide dog with groceries and all the sudden Bam! I get whacked in the face by branches or whatever. If it's raining, this will result in my head getting wet. If it's been snowing, sometimes this has resulted on snow landing on me! I really wish people would take care of this on a regular basis.
PsychedelicBraille 1 points 3y ago
Even with the Ultracane it's difficult when there are overhanging bushes. When I come across them I'll knock on their door and politely ask them to trim what's overhanging, especially when it's a route I take often.
ColdShadowKaz 1 points 3y ago
I hate the bramble hedges that seem to shed branches in the autumn. You cant walk anywhere without huge boots because branches get your unprotected feet, you get branches attaching themselves to your trousers as you walk past and if they haven’t come down yet they are literally sticking out into the middle of the pavement at my face height normally.
I keep threatening to go out with my mothers weed killing flame thrower to keep myself safe.
I keep threatening to go out with my mothers weed killing flame thrower to keep myself safe.
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