Mounting a flood light on a tree!?

[Strima]

We have a large parking area at the back of ours and one of the properties has a row of large conifers on their boundary. These tress have been overhanging for years and you can't park there due to bird crap and tree sap really screwing up your paint job.

Took intervention from the council to get them trimmed nack.

 

[Rpa07]

Oh the unknowledgable days of the leylandia planters! Those things were beasts!

 

[Pete999]

drill some 20mm holes in the trunk, fill with weedkiller, then insert rawlbolts secured with Gorilla glue. ( this post directed @Pete999 to get rid of his pesky trees overgrown weeds)

we suffer from trees in a neighbour's back garden. 60 ft. high. 3 conifers, 2 holly, and 1 dunno what. the crap they drop is horrendous, our shed rotting from it . only + side is it's a home for wood pigeons, so the .22 gets some excercise.

Does the weed killer kill em quick?

 

[telectrix]

might take longer than you think. sometimes could be 20 years, so long past us being rotten corpses. .

 

[telectrix]

cheaper to run, and good excercise for the over 70's.

 

[Pete999]

might take longer than you think. sometimes could be 20 years, so long past us being rotten corpses. .

So the quick option is down to B&Q for a cordless chain saw then?

cheaper to run, and good excercise for the over 70's.
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Yes but I just love the sound of a chain saw, something Manly, smell the fuel and wood fumes wonderful, plus leave very little evidence of vandalism, if I walked around are estate to get to the trees, The Babylon would be on my backside, with all the Tree Huggers and Do Gooders on my estate, it wouldn't take long, for someone to brand me as a maniac, with a big chopper.

 

[Squid]

Tell the owner to install a lamp post.

 

[Squid]

Or at least a scaffold pole with a light attached to it.

 

[rolyberkin]

Thanks for all your replies, you have all been quite busy whilst I have been out for Sunday Lunch!
Will let you know what I do, think some kind of ratchet strap is possibly my favourite, although have been advised by a tree surgeon to use stainless screws!?

 

[Richard Burns]

If you use a strap or any sort of wrap tight around a branch then this will constrain the branch as it grows, cause damage to the branch and bark and eventually enclose the strap in the tree so it is stuck.