The Cut My Tress

[big rockpile]

Ok yesterday my neighbor had some work done on their house, wind was out of the South, I'm letting Cedars grow up for privacy. Well this morning I have two 4 foot Cedars blowed up by my Chicken House, the only place they could have came from is on my property along our Line.

Guess I'm going to have to build Fence but need them to pull their Camper out of the way

big rockpile

[Alice In TX/MO]

Time for a conversation with the neighbors. Good luck.

[Maura]

A high voltage electric fence?

[Darren]

Plant bamboo next to the camper. Install the root zone fabric on your side.

[dizzy]

If the trees were 100% on your property, you need to send them a bill along w/the suggestion that if they don't pay promptly, you will be seeking legal recourse, including but not limited to having them arrested.

[rambler]

I've got a neighbor that parked his livestock trailer 50% on my property for years, now he is slowly replacing his horse fence by putting up a new fence a foot on the outside of his old fence. He's taking down old shrubby trees that are on the outside of the old fence as he goes.

Thing is his old fence already was on the line, so he's taking down my trees (that I don't want, but left there to slow him down some...) and of course taking a foot of property from me.

Once upon a time he wanted to buy the property surrounding his 7 acres; but he wanted to pay 50% of what it was worth, and waited a year doing nothing to get that done. So he doesn't talk to me too much since I bought it for the going rate at the time.

Of course, he is the small 7 acre deal, I'm the big bad few 100 acre farmer, so its probably all my fault anyhow.

Not sure I quite understand your deal, but if someone took down my trees I planted for a fence on my side, and piled them up way over by my buildings for me to deal with, I'd be a little bit upset for a couple of reasons.

Paul

[topofmountain]

I solved any problems like that. I fenced & pulled the fence 6" inside my property. Left the survey hubs well marked & in the open.

[bigjon]

did'nt quite understand your post.neighbors or workers cut your trees?

[Lazy J]

Originally Posted by big rockpile

....... Well this morning I have two 4 foot Cedars blowed up by my Chicken House the only place they could have came from is on my property along our Line. ............

Did you go out and find where the trees were cut or are you just making assumptions.

[DEKE01]

Originally Posted by rambler

I've got a neighbor that parked his livestock trailer 50% on my property for years, now he is slowly replacing his horse fence by putting up a new fence a foot on the outside of his old fence. He's taking down old shrubby trees that are on the outside of the old fence as he goes.

Thing is his old fence already was on the line, so he's taking down my trees (that I don't want, but left there to slow him down some...) and of course taking a foot of property from me.

Once upon a time he wanted to buy the property surrounding his 7 acres; but he wanted to pay 50% of what it was worth, and waited a year doing nothing to get that done. So he doesn't talk to me too much since I bought it for the going rate at the time.

Of course, he is the small 7 acre deal, I'm the big bad few 100 acre farmer, so its probably all my fault anyhow.

Not sure I quite understand your deal, but if someone took down my trees I planted for a fence on my side, and piled them up way over by my buildings for me to deal with, I'd be a little bit upset for a couple of reasons.

Paul

At a minimum I would wait for him to finish that fence and then put some stakes on the actual property line, with maybe a single line of HT wire so that it was clear to all that you had not abandoned that one foot of property. That would be the minimum and I would be that nice only because you can use that new fence and are happy to have the trees removed. If the guy was a jerk and a problem for me, I would make him take the fence down and move it. I wouldn't go looking for trouble and would try to fix this fence line before it became a big problem, but the last thing I would do is give up any of my land.

[Danaus29]

I'm having my own issues with an old fence line that was a couple feet inside my line. Previous owner admitted he knew fence was on my property. New owner (relative) is po'd about me using those couple feet (after we removed offending and rotting old fence). Told new owner to go ahead and hire a surveyor. I had it done a few years before.

Mark the line and defend said line.

[secuono]

If any limbs are hanging over on their side, they can cut those parts off.
If you plant bamboo and it gets all over their property, you'll have to pay for the eradication....

[goatlady]

That "neighbor" who is encroaching on your property with his new fence will, eventually, end up owning that strip of property under your state's "adverse possion" laws. Better check ASAP and get your property protected and secured, Paul.

[highlands]

Sounds to me like the neighbors are too close if you can see them. Half a mile, a mile, that's a good distance. Good distances make good neighbors.

[Zapthycat]

Wish I understood the OP. From what I can understand, the wind blew 2 4-foot cedars down?

[whipsaw]

Why does it seem that neighbors who build fences always err in their favor? This bothers me immensely. I had an old farmhouse on 2.75 acres of riverfront property, and there was no fence between myself and the neighboring 10 acre property. The guy hired a fencing outfit and put a fence up which was several feet inside MY property line, and angling towards my property so that if it were finished all the way to the river, it would have taken probably 1/3 acre of my property over the course of several hundred feet. I was not staying in the house long term, so I just let it go for the next owner to deal with.

[Alice In TX/MO]

That's not nice.

[joebill]

I will never be made to understand why a person will pay good, hard earned money and in most cases interest on that money over a period decades long and then surrender a square inch of it to some jerk simply because he doesn't want to assert his right to that property.

I have had plenty of issues over the years with misplaced fences going both directions (I bought a place where the fences were infringing on my neighbor and moved them to where they belonged) and have never been shy about defending my property line and have always encouraged my neighbors to do the same. That's what private property is all about, and letting somebody infringe on yours is encouraging bad manners and theft.

Teach the guy some manners, so his next neighbor won't have to.....PLEASE!....Joe

[whipsaw]

Originally Posted by joebill

I will never be made to understand why a person will pay good, hard earned money and in most cases interest on that money over a period decades long and then surrender a square inch of it to some jerk simply because he doesn't want to assert his right to that property.

I have had plenty of issues over the years with misplaced fences going both directions (I bought a place where the fences were infringing on my neighbor and moved them to where they belonged) and have never been shy about defending my property line and have always encouraged my neighbors to do the same. That's what private property is all about, and letting somebody infringe on yours is encouraging bad manners and theft.

Teach the guy some manners, so his next neighbor won't have to.....PLEASE!....Joe

If this is in response to me, then perhaps you should understand a few things before you jump to conclusions. The fence was put up in anticipation of him having unknown neighbors after I left, to keep them off of his raw 5 acres which separated my house from his. I made him aware of the fence issue which he blamed on the contractor. I also made the new owners aware, and left it up to them to settle. I really didn't have the time nor the interest in dealing with it. It was their problem. I divested myself of the property.

Originally Posted by whipsaw

If this is in response to me, then perhaps you should understand a few things before you jump to conclusions. The fence was put up in anticipation of him having unknown neighbors after I left, to keep them off of his raw 5 acres which separated my house from his. I made him aware of the fence issue which he blamed on the contractor. I also made the new owners aware, and left it up to them to settle. I really didn't have the time nor the interest in dealing with it. It was their problem. I divested myself of the property.

I jumped to the same conclusion since you didn't say that you'd already sold the property...you stated that you weren't staying long-term...