Asplundh meathead vandal attacks our property causing malicious damage
Thursday, July 9th, 2026
It was Thursday 9th July 2026: Endeavour Energy’s Asplundh driver vandalism in the Australian Blue Mountains in ‘The Gully’. This is Asplundh’s “Historic Tree Management Clearance”…any tree planted over 10 years ago is fair game to us!”
As if our Katoomba Falls Creek Valley (The Gully) in the Blue Mountains of Australia hasn’t copped enough callous deforestation over the many decades?
We previously copped Blue Mountains Council’s outsourced ‘JJ Richards‘ garbage truck meathead that had drove through our verge, then Council’s verge police, now its Asplundh’s meathead lumberjacks taking a crack at us. WTF!
Last week some Kiwi ‘bevan’ wantonly killed our verge ornamental autumnal pear tree. Was he on the turps?
T’was our beautiful front pear tree, loved mutually by our neighbours for such autumnal folliage; similarly valued by car visitors to the Blue Mountains for its deep tree shade providing shaded parking from the hot afternoon sun. The only tree in our small street to offer such.
We called our pear tree ‘Russet‘ (after the French pear variety) for its beautiful leaf colouring through autumn and its gift growth back to us providing hedge privacy, summer shade and attractive autumnal folliage. One planted it in 2002, nurtured it, watered it , yes had it trimmed every six months to stay safely below the power lines above. But it’s now dead, killed Asplundh’s meathead driver and quickly ‘disappeared’ by Asplundh’s Bandit woodchipper.
Asplundh’s meathead terror attack entrails of our killed pear tree. What Asplundh left us behind.
Lumberjack Asplundh’s meathead vandals wantonly attacked our property last week causing substantial malicious damage. Some Kiwi driver in the trimming crew driving the Asplundh truck came back after the power line trimming job to reverse hard back into where he had been crashing with deliberate force into our 25 year of old Pear Tree, taking it out completely. WTF?
The image above and below show the extent of that wanton damage. Of course the property owner didn’t ask for such proprty damage. The property owner had planted this pear tree back in 2002 over quarter of a Century ago and has diligently maintained it to comply with Endeavour Energy’s tree clearance rules ever since. Such overhead power lines clearance arrangement had all been amicable up until 12:45pm on Thursday 9th July 2026.
On Thursday 9th July 2026, NSW Government’s outsourced electricity provider Endeavour Energy decided to get its Swedish lumberjack ‘Asplundh’ to do its ‘tree trimming’ so-called.
This round it had its New Zealand backpacker boofheads do the job on the property.
The Asplundh damage that had nothing whatsoever to do with powerline clearance after the fact. Perhaps the Kiwi feral leprechaun caught some corner-of-eye glumpse of our resident native possums. Native to Oz, we feed ’em and house ’em!
After the Endeavor Energy job had been done by Asplundh, its Hi-Viz ranga leprechaun (some imported Kiwi backpacker) came back and deliberately reversed his truck into our verge and took out a mature tree completely. This is the damage – entire tree killed! Wham bam!
Click to play this actual video: ScreenRecording_07-16-2026 12-51-16_1 (1)
Kundibar Armageddon!
WILLIAM LOWE’S BURJ KHALIFA SHARD – so wanton hate-inflicted upon Katoomba by a wayward tattoed immigrant. It was but a healthy tree deliberately sharded by one reversing truck crashed into by an Asplundh hatefilled ethnic. An unqualified foreign driver? A deliberate wanton criminal attack! Did the All Blacks lose a recent match against the Wallabies or something? One doesn’t follow the cross ditch contest despite having experience life in NZ a few times but felt best to return to the land of lots of sandy beaches, cuz.
This shard image resonated. I have personally onsite witnessed the holocaust of Tasmania’s Stix Valley ancient giants first hand back in 2011.
Photo by Editor on one’s investigative trip to the Stix Valley Holocaust on 28 September 2011. This shows grotesque slayed carnage by an antiquated anthropocentric lumberjack cult driven by pure hate. ^https://www.wildtasmania.org/
Reforestation: On right of verge: our overhanging ornamental pear tree ‘Russet’. This was before an Asplundh meathead truck driver reversed into it killing it recklessly and deliberately. We had planted it way back in 2002 and nurtured it seasonally, maintained it, trimmed it and swept up its autumn leaves annually. Sadly, it’s now no more and Asplundh has left a gaping hole.
Our verge in full bloom. Now gone.
This valley pre-colonisation, actually used to be a rainforest pre-John Britty North’s deforestation of the 1870s. So, one terms what we did on our wee patch by first removing all the grassed lawn on the property is our wee gesture of reforestation. We’ve certainly observed (and heard) more native birdlife being appreciative.
The following image shows a similar example of what we started with:
A typical Blue Mountains Council verge which Council never maintains (mows), expecting residents (ratepayers) to do its toil – time and cost.
Back in 2002, one contacted Council about its unkemp grass verge out the front of our place to propose we replace the grass with native plants and they had no issue. Ok, good. So, for this 16 metre verge lenth pf about 1 m wide (inside from the footpath mind you against our front boundary) we set about removing all the grass down to the roots, digging up the compacted soil and improving it, and adding soil to a raised level, then planting as many ferns shrubs and a few trees as would be allowed as ‘reforestation‘. Better than deforestation.
But just at a coppice scale, given that the property’s block area is under a quarter of an acre. We just did our bit to give back to local Nature and enhance the natural landscape.
Had those bloody imposing and overruling overhead wires instead been better installed along the other side of the street (where there are no trees to speak of), or even better, installed underground (given we are in a bushfire risk zone), then this pear tree after 24 years would have grown by now to over 30 metres high. It would not just shade one’s property, cars in the street, but most of our street. Such were the dumb infrastructure planners of the day. The property also wouldn’t have that super bright street light.
Our precious ornamental pear tree (Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’) – before Asplundh killed it.
With a wide spread of up to six metres, and a more conical shape, the Chanticleer (Pyrus calleryana) means proud strutting rooster. It is one of the most popular ornamental pears in cultivation in Australia. Its leaves are dark green, foliage dense, provides habitat for native birds and other wildlife. It also provided spectacular autumn foliage in shades of gold, plum, and burgundy. Chanticleer (also known as the Cleveland Select Pear) typically grows to a mature height of 8 to 12 metres (26 to 40 feet). It is a hardly cool climate species, featuring a distinctive, narrow, and upright teardrop shape, spreading about 4 to 6 metres wide at maturity. These ornamental pears are prized for tight spaces and streetscapes due to their naturally uniform, dense habit.
In addition to their height, such ornamental pear trees typically grow moderately fast; and once established they can add 50 to 80 cm per year.
Pear trees provide seasonal benefits – producing masses of small white flowers in spring; dense deep green foliage for summer shade; vibrant yellow, orange, red and burgundy coloured foliage in autumn. Russet had been planted in well drained sandy loam. It was one of six of the same variety planted by three adjoining neighbours in a row, two in front of each of the three properties. The verge coppice hedging had sensibly replaced Council’s grass that Council insisted owne mow regularly at owner’s time and expense bizarrely as a ratepayer service to Council. Shoe on the wrong foot or what?
Then Asplundh and its immigrant backpacker meatheads came along in July 2026. Some folks just hate trees. It’s probably why this mob operate in the leafy Blue Mountains – like “how many trees can we kill today?” mentality. This was the offending truck:
The Asplundh truck of the culprit – Rego: ‘X0 135F‘. The ‘F’ being for what? Fuckwit!
And towing on the rear the industrial strength tree chipper:
The website states:
“Meet the Bandit 21XP – Your Unstoppable Chipping Solution
Tackle the Toughest Jobs with Ease Imagine effortlessly handling the largest, toughest materials with the Bandit 21XP. Its 21” capacity and 26” x 24.5”
The manufacturer of the Bandit 21XP (also known as the Intimidator 21XP) is Bandit Industries, Inc., an American company based in Remus, Michigan,
One doesn’t have to be too smart to drive a truck. This author holds many ‘driving’ licenses so oughta know – like a HC (semi-trailer) license, authorised bus driver licence (including double deckers), UPPL (unrestricted private pilot licence), CPL (commercial helicopter licence), low level flying endorsement (R22), commercial coxwains ticket, also for a motorbike, forklift and oh yeah a car licence – manual even! All unblemished.
One does not hold a chainsaw license on principle, but it oughta not be too hard to work it out (see video below on how to start a chainsaw). Yet I wouldn’t let a ranga leprachaun near one or near another truck for that matter.
Asplundh truck driver aggression
Endeavour Energy (the current powerline operator serving the NSW Government) should wisely consider discontinuing to associate with Asplund for its vegetation trimming. It’s not been the first time in our experience over 26 years here.
Asplundh’s hi-viz meathead driver who reversed the truck into the owner’s large tree. A New Zealand ranga leprechaun attempting some Māori haka taunt (cultural misapproriation) – not too bright here, ridiculous actually and he ought pull his tongue in and go back to N.A.F.A. land! [Asplundh-anställd på Nya Zeeland – tatuerad leprechaun – vandaler]. Is that why he ran from NZ!
A piss poor effort. Aotearoa Māori may well treat such cultural ridicule satirised by disrespectful clearly non-Māori with due contempt – cultural misapproriation? Up to Māori. The uniform ties and corporate badges suggest corporate inebriation.
BTW, that rego plate X0 135F – probably the ‘F‘ duly stands for fuckwit. The Kiwi leprechaun would typically hate Aussie native possums and therefore Australians. So why is he here in the first place across the ditch causing havoc downunder? Perhaps Australian could exchange him with Grafton’s Brendan Tarrant of Christchurch notoriety in hatred. Thus Brendan would fly back to OZ on QANTAS, and this Kiwi ranga leprauchaun skedaddle deport back to the long white cloud on AirNZ to continue his passion for deforestation on his home turf?
Problems across the ditch? Good Kiwis deserve to stay downunder, but feral Kiwis deserve go back across.
Asplundh’s Kiwi ranga leprechaun all tatooed up and with attitude. Has he served time? Do Australian police know he is in our country and of his background?
Asplundh – “A Better Way“?
Then the coward contractors returned later that night and chainsawed the evidence… except the property owner had captured it all.
Healthy pear tree chainsawed to the ground trying to remove all the evidence of the crime. It was 25-years-old, planted by the property owner back in 2002. The diameter of that stump measures 30 cm. What a bloody tree-hating lopping meathead!
The Pear Tree’s chainsawed entrails found next day (Friday 10th July 2026) left behind by Asplundh vandals secretly from the night before left strewn along the street. Wham bam thank you ma’am?
This malicious vandalism comes just a few weeks after the owner was harassed by Blue Mountains Council bullies about this same verge.
Blue Mountains Council and Endeavour Energy’s Asplundh simply don’t deserve to belong anywhere near the Blue Mountains world heritage, but back in the CITY.
Where we live and respect. We’ve lived here for 26 years, to date.
This was our house originally:
Our grass verge reforesting – landscaping upgrade of 2015
Sean Rowe:
Postscript:
Since the date of this Asplundh Truck Crash into my property, Katoomba Police have served me with Court Attendance Order.
References and Further Reading:
[1] Asplundh’s notice of trimming of vegetation to us, 2026-06-29, from our files,
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Open in new tab [2] ‘Chainsaw massacre reduces beautiful old trees to ugly stumps‘, 2018-07-05, by Jennie Curtin, Blue Mountains Gazette (newspaper), Gladstone Road, Leura, Blue Mountains, ^https://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/5509314/tree-maintenance-turns-brutal-in-leuras-chainsaw-massacre/
[3] ‘Asplundh cut down all of my pine trees and lied about obtaining permission‘, Reddit.com (social website), (author chose to remain anonymous), ^https://www.reddit.com/r/treelaw/comments/1ecvwop/asplundh_cut_down_all_of_my_pine_trees_and_lied/
[4] One’s formal complaint to Endeavour Energy in writing the very next day , 2026-07-10, it reads as follows:
“To whom it may concern,
Complaints Manager
Endeavour Energy
Level 40-42, 8 Parramatta Square
10 Darcy Street
Parramatta, NSW 2150
Dear Sir/Madam,
RE: Asplundh tree destruction at 5 Kundibar Street Katoomba NSW 2780
Your Complaint Ref: C-331040
Asplundh Job Ref: AA358396
I refer to my telephone call to your Complaints department yesterday.
Yesterday (Thursday 9th July 2026), Endeavour Energy’s outsourced vegetation contractor Asplundh arranged with me to trim our verge vegetation clear of the overhead powerlines at our above residential address, to which I agreed and oversaw.
This arrangement has been mutually agreed between myself and Endeavour Energy since 2011 to occur roughly every six months and the arrangement has been amicable.
That was up until yesterday, when one of Asplundh’s cowboys drove into a mature tree of ours and destroyed it totally, and totally unnecessarily.
The trimming job yesterday had been performed between 11:30am and 12:30pm, and the task duly completed as I watched on. Then the Asplundh crew headed off to another location.
However, about 10 minutes later, I visually observed from my front home office window one of the Asplundh trucks reverse into my verge and completely knock over a large 25+ year old ornamental pear tree to the road leaving a 1 metre high severed stump. The tree’s truck diameter was just under 30cm! It was no small tree! I planted it 25 years ago.
I attach photos of the damage. I point out that the tree was in no way impacting the safe vertical area near the overhead powerlines. The trimming work had already been completed and this work has just previously been mutually confirmed with me happily by the Asplundh vegetation trimming supervisor onsite to his satisfaction. I had thus returned inside.
Upon seeing the tree fall across the street, I immediately raced outside to see the damage. The Asplundh truck driver (photographed) had exited his truck as I took photos and videos of the matter. The truck driver then questioned me and approached me in an aggressive manner on the street in front of his truck. I photographed and videoed him at the time at the damage senesce at the time only to be threatened by his aggressive behaviour toward me.
I asked why.
The Hi-Viz Asplundh crew laughed at me, stating it was only a tree. Yet, I was the victim. The truck driver was clearly in the wrong.
I have reported this malicious damage to Police, Blue Mountains City Council, Asplundh’s contact Calib, and to Endeavour Energy.
What has occurred is unacceptable and I have sought legal advice in relation to this matter. I now have engaged a solicitor.”
Attached evidentiary images:
Yours sincerely,
(affected property owner)
[5] Asplundh ‘Chainsaw massacre reduces beautiful old trees to ugly stumps‘, 2018-07-10, by Jennie Curtin, Blue Mountains Gazette (newspaper), ^https://www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/5509314/tree-maintenance-turns-brutal-in-leuras-chainsaw-massacre/
In 2018, Asplundh launched its tree terror attack on Leura, targeting
Gladstone Road, Leura (Blue Mountains) BEFORE Asplundh Terrorist Attack:
AFTER Asplundh terrorist attack:
Asplundh – attacks heritage liquidamber trees along Gladstone Road Leura, Blue Mountains June 2018 unsupervised by Blue Mountains Council)
“Asplundh’s vision is to be the leading Australian provider of vegetation maintenance”
SOURCE: Asplundh website, ^https://www.asplundh.com.au/about-us
[6] ‘Asplundh destroyed our tree without permission—what can we do?‘, 2025, by (anonymous), on REDDIT.COM, ^https://www.reddit.com/r/Albany/comments/1k6c01s/asplundh_destroyed_our_tree_without/
“You are actually lucky they left you a tree. On our land they just cut the trees off with 4 feet stumps and left everything. They are supposed to notify you ahead of time, but you basically have to be there chaining yourself to trees or they don’t care. National Grid would clear cut Sequoia National Forest if they had so much as an extension cord near the place.“
[7] ‘Did Asplundh damage trees on private property in Ross Creek?‘, by Jess Wallis, Ross Creek Community Group , 5 July 2025,
“Just wondering if anyone else in the area experienced issues with Asplundh trimming trees on their property subcontracted by Powercor for the powerlines? We had a number of trees on our property (not public land) cut directly off at ground level & also a substantial number of our advanced trees damaged from their careless behaviour when dropping branches.”
[8] ‘Has anyone ever had asplundh just absolutely ruin the trees in your yard?‘, by eabcan (anonymous), 2024-2-28, on REDDIT.COM, ^https://www.reddit.com/r/milwaukee/comments/18leibc/has_anyone_ever_had_asplundh_just_absolutely_ruin/
“I’m in Portland, Oregon (USA) and Asplundh were hired by PGE. They just came down our street and did a horrible job. I agree that the power lines need to be kept clear, but they absolutely butchered trees. They left stubs on the trees and took off branches that were no where near the lines. They also left a pile of debris in their wake. I am fuming right now.“
[9] ‘Asplundh was a bully‘, Go to legal (anonymous), 2024,
“I found a huge truck cutting a tree in my neighbors yard from my upper driveway. I was why they did not ask permission and he said its just the way we roll. I said you are in the wrong yard protecting your lines and dropping wood in my yard for me to clean up from my neighbor’s tree. You got 20 minutes to clear out. They ignored me. I decided I need to move my automobiles to the upper drive way and just went back inside, i do that often just to coat the cylinders with oil.
Moving the story forward the electric cooperative arrived and told me i was interfering. I explained what he did not know and added that they were over 10ft outside out the 20ft of access they have to maintain the lines. I said wait there’s more. Look next to the cut tree see the rotten tree notice the top missing. the tree I am certain you came to cut had already failed and fell in my yard and i cleaned it up, These guys decided that they would still get paid by cutting down a perfectly solid tree in my neighbor’s yard at my expense. He said move or i will call the police. i said let me know when they arrive. Two cop cars and 3 cops arrived in short order and one said that i had kidnapped their equipment i told the story a third time. The cop said wait that tree is not on your land, i said right. They gotta clean that mess up before i budge. The cop left and spoke to them and i moved my car and they moved a lot of the waste but left a lot. I really made that electric guy mad. I never acted ugly, just stubborn as hell. Think i need a lawyer?”
[10] ‘Has anyone else had issues with Asplundh doing tree trimming for Duke Power?‘ by ‘LittleMissMeanAss’ (anonymous), 2023,
“Asplundh recently entered my property, which is fenced and gated, and cut down a 20+ year old tree without any notice or permission. I contacted their Garner office and left a message on their complaint line. Got a call back from a fellow who said he would go out and look at the tree in question. He calls back and says the tree was actually “a cluster of trunks that is classified as underbrush” and they’re within their rights to cut it down. I asked how that was possible when the tree was taller than the barn it was next to. He said that the trunk was not 12″ wide nor higher than 3′ (how would you know how tall it is when they took the whole thing down?) and therefore they didn’t do anything wrong and there was nothing else that could be done. The tree was taller than my barn. There are photos of it on Google Earth that show it all the way back to 2007, being at roof-line height. We usually trim it in spring to keep it cut back from the power lines ourselves. They had no issues topping two other trees that were actually growing around the power lines, but they chose to cut this one all the way down?
He also said that they left a doorhanger, but also kept insisting there was a house on my property. There isn’t a house. It’s a farm. “Well, maybe he left it on your gate and it blew away. But we did our due diligence and left it. He’s going to send me his log later tonight to show where he marked that he left a door hanger.” When the matter of entering the property came up he said, “Not that it sounds any better, but they didn’t come through your gate. They climbed over the fence.” I mean.
I can’t wrap my head around a company just letting themselves into private property without (a) contacting the landowner and (b) just taking down a whole ass tree.
Has anyone had this experience with them? What did you do? Did you get a resolution or did they tell you to pound sand too?”
