FarmWrench
Silver Member
DB Pilot,. I live in Erie county, guess you are closer to Erie PA. There is a saying around here, often carved on mantle pieces, "Every tree is good for its use".
I do exactly what your neighbor does. The reasoning is as a farmer land is to be used for what it's good for. I let another farm use one of my roads because it would be an afront to nature, and against the concept of being a steward of the land for more good land to be destroyed into a road. In your case mowed. You didn't say anything about making hay on your side, just that one of you would mow it. Good use for the tree?
You also didn't mention who installed the trellis. Contractors typically do that. They want to maximize the billable distance of installed trellis and went right to the line forcing this on both of you.
We had one neighbor who we had turned trucks around on some of his grass (dry hard ground, no rutting) park his collection of trailers to block us off the next day. He has two tree stands, built on scaffolding and large enough to require a building permit on my property. His septic system was installed with my backhoe (and fuel). The waterlines between pumphouse, house, barn ,shop and goat pens were installed with my backhoe,(and fuel), the dirt he started moving into the rotting stump holes in his yard happened to grow the sudex cover crop I'd planted the day before. His current shop was built using my backhoe after a fire in his old one.
When you drive on wet soil you compact it. Squeezing the air out and making life almost impossible in the soil, (it becomes dirt then). No matter how many times I try to explain to him that he can't drive all over"WHEN THE SOIL IS WET" he runs his 4wheeler around. Forgive us our trespass as we forgive those....... Never mind that's just BS people say in church.
I'm going to catch a lot of grief on this.
Get your survey. Have a copy sent to him. Build a barrier and yell, "Mine! Mine! Not Yours!" over it until he cuts the end rows off or has a group home for serial rapists built, or a 24hr gas station, or a new grain handling facility, pig barn, Pomace compost site, because someone driving on your grass....And then discover he's been pissed about where you have been pushing your snow, or what it looks like you did hunting, for years.
Or maybe get your survey, and him a copy. Then explain that you don't like his employees parking, the equipment repairs, or someone else mowing your land because it isn't what you see as its best use. But do this at the right time. A sign at the end of a long row that is impossible to back out from or turn around in is going to get pulled and thrown.
When it comes to erratic behavior, (hunt, don't hunt) when did you talk to him? I've had so many people come and ask when I have employees on the clock, rain on the way, customers calling, a pile of papers on the desk, my kids are playing ball and some guy wants to know about deer hunting!!!! DB Pilot do you fly? Can I come and discuss driving on the grass you can't get mowed while you are preparing for take off, landing?
I do exactly what your neighbor does. The reasoning is as a farmer land is to be used for what it's good for. I let another farm use one of my roads because it would be an afront to nature, and against the concept of being a steward of the land for more good land to be destroyed into a road. In your case mowed. You didn't say anything about making hay on your side, just that one of you would mow it. Good use for the tree?
You also didn't mention who installed the trellis. Contractors typically do that. They want to maximize the billable distance of installed trellis and went right to the line forcing this on both of you.
We had one neighbor who we had turned trucks around on some of his grass (dry hard ground, no rutting) park his collection of trailers to block us off the next day. He has two tree stands, built on scaffolding and large enough to require a building permit on my property. His septic system was installed with my backhoe (and fuel). The waterlines between pumphouse, house, barn ,shop and goat pens were installed with my backhoe,(and fuel), the dirt he started moving into the rotting stump holes in his yard happened to grow the sudex cover crop I'd planted the day before. His current shop was built using my backhoe after a fire in his old one.
When you drive on wet soil you compact it. Squeezing the air out and making life almost impossible in the soil, (it becomes dirt then). No matter how many times I try to explain to him that he can't drive all over"WHEN THE SOIL IS WET" he runs his 4wheeler around. Forgive us our trespass as we forgive those....... Never mind that's just BS people say in church.
I'm going to catch a lot of grief on this.
Get your survey. Have a copy sent to him. Build a barrier and yell, "Mine! Mine! Not Yours!" over it until he cuts the end rows off or has a group home for serial rapists built, or a 24hr gas station, or a new grain handling facility, pig barn, Pomace compost site, because someone driving on your grass....And then discover he's been pissed about where you have been pushing your snow, or what it looks like you did hunting, for years.
Or maybe get your survey, and him a copy. Then explain that you don't like his employees parking, the equipment repairs, or someone else mowing your land because it isn't what you see as its best use. But do this at the right time. A sign at the end of a long row that is impossible to back out from or turn around in is going to get pulled and thrown.
When it comes to erratic behavior, (hunt, don't hunt) when did you talk to him? I've had so many people come and ask when I have employees on the clock, rain on the way, customers calling, a pile of papers on the desk, my kids are playing ball and some guy wants to know about deer hunting!!!! DB Pilot do you fly? Can I come and discuss driving on the grass you can't get mowed while you are preparing for take off, landing?
