Tried that......she won't sell. The house sits empty so her daughter can store stuff in it. She could rent it for $600/mo!!!
And I mow her front lawn with my Cub Cadet and shovel her snow....so I'm not being stubborn!

copper nails are really old and hard to find....they are made from wire. get you some 12 gauge and strip it off then cut you some 1 to 2 inch pieces....take your handy dandy cordless drill and find a bit just the right size....imma gonna skip to the part about the nails being just under the bark in the growth layer and lots of them....tree probably wont come back next year...…...theoreticly…….

I agree with Donner. As an arborist I have also been called to evaluate possible tree damage from a neighbor. Fortunately I have never had to go to court and testify but I do know that there are multiple ways of testing the tree for foul Play. I would check with your laws and see what all you can take off and have a professional come out and take care of it. This way if there are any accusations you have documentation that you had a professional company do the work.

Asking forgiveness before permission it's definitely not the way to go with trees as they can be harmed beyond repair.
If they were to get an evaluation done of a tree value you could be looking at a tremendous amount of money.

Copper Nails will do nothing but ruin equipment for the poor guy who is cutting it down, I have been there and it is not fun.

Good info TrapperD81.

Run a trencher down the property line and the roots wi be cut off from the tree. That also removes support from that side of the tree and will cause the tree to fall away from your property if the wind gives it a nudge.

There is a product used a lot in south Texas for mesquite control called Sendero. It is bragged about b/c it is mesquite specific and does not harm oak trees, elm trees, etc. It has been my experience that it is not just mesquite specific, but that it will also smoke honey locust trees. I'm guessing because both are in the bean (Fabaceae) family.

This spring I sprayed one branch of a honey locust shrub (about 8 feet tall) to see what would happen. The one branch turned yellow within a day and lost leaves soon afterward. One month later, the whole shrub was yellow and now it has lost all of its leaves. Next spring will determine for sure if the locust is dead or not, but it has been my experience that this product kills locust trees much more easily than mesquites. The kill also depends if the plant has been shredded or mechanically manipulated in the past. A lot of noxious shrubs are small, but hey have one heckuva root system. The key is to spray the tree when it is actively growing and temperatures are warm, but before the plant starts producing and growing beans. This helps to get the chemical down into the roots.

Wouldnt taking the roots off your side make it want to fall towards your side since its being supported in the neighbors side and now you have disturbed soil on your side as well now.

You should pay a real estate law firm to sue her for trespass, damages to your garden and blocking your view- get a court to order removal of the tree and she will pay for that and pay you damages.
If you damage it without a court order she will sue you without a doubt.

from nolo.com
"Deliberately Harming a Tree

In almost every state, a person who intentionally injures someone else's tree is liable to the owner for two or three times the amount of actual monetary loss. These penalties protect tree owners by providing harsh deterrents to would-be loggers."

X2

Thanks, I'm going to use this on some larger cottonwoods on my property.

Just take a couple of 5 gallon buckets of round up and soak it in at the base of the tree. It will kill it real slow like almost like, gee I wonder why that tree is dying.

You gotta move then.

My,my,my,me,me,me. Are you a milinieal?

Get someone to cut the limbs that hang over your property and leave your neighbors property the heck alone.

Buy the property from him and cut the tree down. Otherwise mind your property and let the neighbor mind his.

Calm down girls, it was sarcasm.