A STAND OF STUB CUTS

This one was a real shocker. I was on my way to my favorite eatery when I gasped at the sight of what happened to these trees! I immediately pulled over and took out my camera and tripod. I could not pass up the opportunity to capture this brutalization someone called pruning. I examined the large bole cuts and found no evidence of rot or disease. The trees were quite healthy. They were Acacias! Hardy species.

As I set up, two little girls walked into the photo to be a part of it. I guess they just wanted their photo taken. One of them finally asked why I was taking the photograph. I explained that I thought the trees had been badly mistreated and they agreed. Said they didn't like it when it was happening.  

The entire grove was subsequently removed but not until it stood for a couple of months along one of the busiest streets in town. There has been no subsequent replacement of any of the trees. I wonder why they were removed.

GIT YORE TREE OFFA MY PROPERTY

This is a classic case of "cutting your tree off to spite your view". I have seen this more times than I'd care to think about. Here's my story about what happened here. Property owner on left didn't like the limbs, duff and shade impacting their yard. So maybe the owner of the tree refused to pay for removal or pruning. The neighbor on the left decided to take control so the tree was sheared back to the property line. It's legal. Property owner's have possession of the airspace above their property so cutting all the limbs over their property is part of that ownership. However I have found at least two problems come into play. Even though there is nothing initially illegal about doing this type of pruning a second issue comes into play. If the tree dies or falls onto the owner's property and causes damage the "legal" pruning becomes a problem. The final insult is that the people that live on the property on the left have to look at a very ugly and unnatural tree appearance. I would advise not doing this although it happens quite often.