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Bonehead said:Or would it be possible to prune them back to a manageable size? I don't have much experience with arbs, but it seems I see them in tidy little rows quite often. Might be worth having one of those tree arborist people come out and give you a bid on managing their size. My brother-in-law bought a house with a nice mature row of arbs between his back fence and a rather messy farmer which he promptly cut down, and has spent time/dollars trying to rescreen. I can only shake my head...

Thank you, but they are beyond pruning...they are great mature privacy screen trees, just growing in the wrong place. I think whoever planted them didn't know how tall they'd eventually become. We certainly didn't know and didn't expect them to become a problem.