Claude Tate says he was cited last April for parking the trailer on the grass. Tate says that's against a city ordinance because officials are afraid parking trailers on grass will keep people from mowing their grass.

Tate says he went to city council meetings twice a month to get the ordinance changed. When he failed, he hoisted his trailer up in the tree.



"I don't like the city telling me what I can do in my backyard, what I can have in my backyard, and if they can do this to me, they can go after trampolines, they can go after swingsets, anything that they don't like in your backyard, they can say, 'you can't have it anymore,'" said Tate.