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Yesterday I (a senior in her late 70's) paid over $3,000 to have a professional (licensed, bonded and insured) tree company thin out dead limbs and cut weight off of heavy limbs on about 10 trees.
We are an international forum of caregivers to elderly loved ones here.
Best of luck to you!
Call your Office of Aging to see if there are any programs to help you. If this is a neighbors tree, you may want to call the Township and see what can be done. There maybe a law that if the homeowner has been made aware that a tree on their property is dangerous and it falls and does damage to a neighbors property, they are responsible. Maybe even your Township can help if its ur tree.
I was told they do things like mow lawns and stuff for aging
I absolutely agree with Geaton that you will get much better help with this particular issue from your Nextdoor community. Are you familiar with them? They will provide you with the names of someone who can come check on that tree, it's health and the likelihood of its falling; they can also provide you with the correct numbers in your own area to call for support such as your country supervisor, etc. I love the Nextdoor community and check in on mine every day.
Now as to that tree. Is it yours or neighbors? If the latter, did you speak to the neighbor who has it. I would do this by mail, actually and would make it really friendly. Just "Dear Neighbor; I am truly worried about the tree you have which leans close to my house. I feel it is a danger to us because ________________etc. And just end "I wonder if we could speak about preventative measures".
This puts that neighbor on notice that they will be liable to damage, especially since you warned them.
There are always community laws specific to this stuff. Usually you can remove any limbs that come over your property. This removes leaning weight in that direction as well.
If tree is yours, time to have a tree service out, and again, use recommends from nextdoor for reliable ones. Cost would be yours.
Given that you are worried about this (whether realistically or not) I wouldn't be sleeping in your home directly under any portion of the home the tree might impact.
I sympathize in that my daughter lives in a beautiful, albeit heavily wooded area of Washington State and the leaning trees of a golf course are worrisome. Some are so tall that any fall would impact their home; one is leaning. A letter to the golf course brought out tree guy to check on the health of the trees, but wow, those things are TALL and big! People are killed yearly in our own Golden Gate Park by falling trees and/or limbs.
Good luck. Hope you have luck finding help in your community, or that your neighbor is responsive to you. Post us an update.
I know someone else where the electric company did drop a tree, but they left all the tree in the yard, so you would still have to deal with that
Another thought is a small home town wood cutter that wants the wood to sell. It may be cheaper
Good luck
Contact your local government, I live in the county and that's who I would start with, your County counsel on aging. They have knowledge of all the assistance available for seniors.
They may even have volunteers that do this or companies that will do it at a huge discount.
Best of luck, that can be a scary thought to have a tree falling on your house.
Join Nextdoor.com which is an intranet of your actual neighbors in your community. Ask for tree cutter references there.
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