Neighbors sometimes good, sometime well!!!

dmccarty · Jul 28, 2015

Go take videos and photos of the damage, especially the tree. Might not be worth the effort, but if the tree dies in the next year or so, you might wish to have the evidence of the fire.

Later,
Dan

Country Geek · Jul 28, 2015

buckshot721 said:
Just kept my cool and told him I did not like what happened, he threw 40.00 at me and said there 20 for the leaves on the tree and 20 for the beans.

When he threw the money at you, did it look anything like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bm0RIs-VJU

(first minute only though the rest is entertaining too)

buckshot721 · Jul 28, 2015

I did have the property surveyed about a month before they moved in. Then of course his grand kids with go carts tore the markers down on our side of the property. Which ticked me off but I did not say anything. The part that bugs me he could have waited till this fall to burn the pile, and he does have a bob cat so moving the pile would not be a problem.

buckshot721 · Jul 28, 2015

Just took some pics of the tree

sseelhoff · Jul 28, 2015

We're fixing to have the same problem. A younger couple bought the property next to us, and are building a house (been under construction for nearly TWO years. Ugh). We had some privacy thanks to trees. He decided to bulldoze/clear cut his entire property-9 acres-and piling up the debris about 150 feet FROM OUR HOUSE and about 100 feet from our trailer storage. It looks like an Aggie bonfire. His pile is about 20 feet from the fence line. He already told us he's going to burn it. I can only imagine how this is going to go. I can see him burning down everything in a two mile radius. But at least we'll have a good view of the fire coming at us, now that he has elimited all of the screening on his side of the fence. Can't walk outside wihout seeing the construction site and all his junk (he welds as a hobby and has piles of scrap materials everywhere.)

Wagtail · Jul 28, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
Don't get me started. I haven't yet figured out how to cope intelligently with my neighbors, and we have been here for over 40 years. My biggest gripe is folks who move into an acreage from town, and then let it grow up like it's been abandoned. I try to keep my place maintained, grass mowed, shrubs trimmed and the house and shop presentable; not so for everyone else...I keep hoping they will be embarrassed enough to clean up their trash, but no luck so far. I have worked with people all of my life, but it seems neighbors do what they are going to do and I don't know of any way to change that. We mostly just ignore and tolerate each other, and I guess that's better than a pizz fight all of the time.

A bit of an opposite scenario with me... I bought my property in '98 and rented it out until I retired here at the end of '12. My tenants really only maintained around the house and most of the surrounding properties were in a similar 'back to nature' state.

Once I moved in, I got stuck into cleaning up & developing the land; trimming the trees, new paddock fencing, new shed, painted the house, etc... The place looks great and the paddocks are pristine. About a year into my efforts, all of my 'back to nature' neighbours started sprucing up their own properties. Hmmmm...

The "word in the pub" was that their wives had got onto them.

foreman Etexas · Jul 28, 2015

I could go on and on with mine but I just get tired of even talking about them. My question is how did he come up with $40 bucks? It would have turned into the video,if my neighbor come over with that kinda attitude quickly. I usually just call the law on them about dumping on county road and such. They finally penned there geese cause my dog killed about 20 in my front yard(I had feathers everywhere

). I put field fence around my house to keep the goats/horses/etc out unless they go threw the front gate,usually couple shots with the 9mm the dogs and etc leave in a hurry. They have a rent cabin right up by the fence the shed and trees pretty much block from seeing but they make racket all time of nights so I usually get up at 5:30 and make enough racket my side,it finally stopped. I kinda find it amusing to try one up them,without seeming like I am. It's got better over the years but if they would have set fire and it come to my side they would have had to explain it to the law,I wouldn't have even bothered with them. There insurance would have been cutting me a check a lot more than $40bucks that's for sure and I would have waved next time they seen me like nothing had happened.
On another hand good fence's make great neighbors or at least here posted signs and purple paint marks on trees will also let someone know where theirs stops and yours starts so no misunderstanding property lines

Deere Dude · Jul 28, 2015

buckshot721 said:
Just took some pics of the treeView attachment 434629

I cannot see where the fire was and I can see the brown leaves. They will grow back. I burned a few piles of brush near trees and really scorched them about 30' up and within a year I could hardly tell where it was burnt. But I did it to my own tree.

I agree he was very inconsiderate and a dork for everything he did but a tree like that cannot be replace at any cost and I don't think it is necessary. Maybe he missed a couple hormone treatments.

Dftodd · Jul 28, 2015

2LaneCruzer said:
Don't get me started. I haven't yet figured out how to cope intelligently with my neighbors, and we have been here for over 40 years. My biggest gripe is folks who move into an acreage from town, and then let it grow up like it's been abandoned. I try to keep my place maintained, grass mowed, shrubs trimmed and the house and shop presentable; not so for everyone else...I keep hoping they will be embarrassed enough to clean up their trash, but no luck so far. I have worked with people all of my life, but it seems neighbors do what they are going to do and I don't know of any way to change that. We mostly just ignore and tolerate each other, and I guess that's better than a pizz fight all of the time.

House next door is a rental. Privacy fence bordering our property is falling over and needed to be replaced ten years ago. Owner doesn't care, and the renter is a lazy slob. Everything is over grown with weeds, except for a ten foot piece he weed wacks by his shed. He keeps complaining about snakes and wondering why they are all around his place :banghead: Neighbor lent him his push mower. Guy tore it up and ruined it in about 20 minutes. Carb was ripped off and the shaft was bent for the blade. Guess the guy is gonna have to deal with the snakes. He's hinted a couple times about wanting me to bush hog. Told him he had to pick up all the trash, loose fence and wire just lying out there in the pasture. We could talk after that was done. That was a year ago, and the crap is still there. It's a wonder his horses haven't gotten tangled in the wire yet