Dh and I bought our house 3 years ago. It's your typical burb, corner lot, in a city where they didn't decide trees were nessesary until just a few years ago unfortunatly. We are lucky enough to have 2 large trees in our front yard (twice as tall as our split level house) that keep me feeling level, grounded, and connected to a bit of nature. You couldn't pay me to cut them down. Heck, I won't even trim them unless the branches are getting so heavy they are hurting the tree. The end of our driveway can't even have a car parked on it because the branches nearly touch the ground but, I refuse to trim them.
So, we have 2 "problem" trees however. The previous owner thought they would plant a couple maple trees. Great, except for a couple things. One of the trees is right off the back stairs and in the city owned outter edge of the yard will there will be a sidewalk installed in the future. So it will never be able to mature because it would be far too large for the area it's planted in. But, for now, that tree can stay. It is quite small and not hurting anything at the moment so it's on the backburner for now. The other maple however, NEEDS to go one way or another THIS SUMMER. The dummy who planted it not only planted directly under the phone line that comes from the pole to our house (the tree is now IN the phone line
: ) but they planted in about 8 feet from the septic tank. So apparently they wanted tree roots to invade the darinage field and relocated the septic tank. I have no idea what they were thinking.
Anyway, the tree is over 10 feet tall now, healthy (because it gets watered by the septic drainfield
), leafy and full, but, saddly needs to go before it pulls the phone line or damages the septic. I don't have anywhere personally where I can replant it in my yard and there aren't any relatives or friends that want it. What do I do with it? I'm worried in digging up the large root ball may mess with my drainfield. I don't want to kill the tree but I may just have to chop it off to save my septic 
. If I do cut it down rather than dig it up will the root system continue to grow? The trunk is still small and the tree still looks like a youngster so how big could I expect the root ball to be? I'd love for someone to come dig it up and replant it but, I don't know if thats possible.
So, we have 2 "problem" trees however. The previous owner thought they would plant a couple maple trees. Great, except for a couple things. One of the trees is right off the back stairs and in the city owned outter edge of the yard will there will be a sidewalk installed in the future. So it will never be able to mature because it would be far too large for the area it's planted in. But, for now, that tree can stay. It is quite small and not hurting anything at the moment so it's on the backburner for now. The other maple however, NEEDS to go one way or another THIS SUMMER. The dummy who planted it not only planted directly under the phone line that comes from the pole to our house (the tree is now IN the phone line
: ) but they planted in about 8 feet from the septic tank. So apparently they wanted tree roots to invade the darinage field and relocated the septic tank. I have no idea what they were thinking.Anyway, the tree is over 10 feet tall now, healthy (because it gets watered by the septic drainfield
), leafy and full, but, saddly needs to go before it pulls the phone line or damages the septic. I don't have anywhere personally where I can replant it in my yard and there aren't any relatives or friends that want it. What do I do with it? I'm worried in digging up the large root ball may mess with my drainfield. I don't want to kill the tree but I may just have to chop it off to save my septic . If I do cut it down rather than dig it up will the root system continue to grow? The trunk is still small and the tree still looks like a youngster so how big could I expect the root ball to be? I'd love for someone to come dig it up and replant it but, I don't know if thats possible.
