Eminent Domain

Von · Sep 8, 2004

Junkman,
I looked into wireless video cameras and transmitters when someone was screwing around with one of my tree stands. They put a time bomb under it, stole my game camera. (Had to use bolt cutters to remove it from the tree) I had put it up to catch them in the act. I guess the flash gave the camera away! Anyway I found all the stuff on ebay to make a 12V wireless video system with a infrared with color in day and black white at night. Would transmit up to 1500 ft. away. The VCR would come on when there was movement on the camera. Total cost to build was under $500.00. I was going to make it look like a squirrels nest and put it up into a tree and have a solar charger hooked to the battery. With this you could monitor 24/7 and never leave the house. I never built it as the one doing all the damage moved and the problems stopped. But it can be done for cheap and you would have a tape to show the cops and judge!

Henro · Sep 8, 2004

The fence will show the line and will stop the noise. Period and done!


Danny,

If I remember right, you cannot see the land in question from your regular vantage point.

And a fence may not stop the noise much really. It will help, but how much?

So I wonder if it would not be better to just plant something at the property line, like some hedge or bamboo or something, that will eventually fill in as a natural fence, and might even absorb the noilse better than a man-made fence might.

And just let his property go the way nature takes it.

And maybe save a lot of time, effort and expense as well...?

I perhaps wrongly get the impression that you may feel the fence will be viewed as a negative by the neighbor, but he may not really care at all.

Just a thought.

I hope he sells you the property. If he does though, maybe you will be putting a fence up anyway, on the far end of it...

DannyD · Sep 8, 2004

I have thought about a hedge type of barrier, and after thinking clearly on it, that may be the way I go. I would much rather look at that rather than a fence. Behind this is a fence line that is grown over, but the over growth is "managed" at this time by me and my trusty weedeater.......not to be done again! I have never had a problem with the way it looks now, it would be fine.

I do hope that he sells me the land, but I really doubt that he will. I truly think that he wants to keep it for EXACTLY what he is doing, an ATV track, as he has mentioned this before. I dont think that would pass zoning laws in our town, and they are pretty strick on them here. My barn was measured for space to the property lines before my permit was issued. I dont think that he could get a use permit for a track, the noise alone would prevent it. YES we have noise laws too! This is also a totally residential area.

thanks for the input, it is appreciated.

Oh any suggestions for plant life as a hedge against site and sound?

bgott · Sep 8, 2004

You could always buy an ATV of your own and race him. You never know, it might be fun! I'll trade you my amp and subwoofers neighbor for your ATV freak. I'll bet he isn't riding at 1 A.M.

Junkman · Sep 9, 2004

( Oh any suggestions for plant life as a hedge against site and sound? )

Plant bamboo on the land in question. After a couple of years, he won't be able to walk through there it will become so over grown. Also dig a trench and put in a vertical brake of 12" high metal to keep the bamboo from infesting your property. I have a friend that has bamboo on the neighboring lot and can't stop it from sprouting in his lawn. I think that the only way to rid yourself of bamboo once it takes hold is to get a family of Panda bears living in your neighborhood...

Moon · Sep 9, 2004

Danny,
How much land are you talking about buying, and how much of it did you mow regularly? A 'strip' of land does not lend itself to being a ATV track to my way of thinking. Now that you neighbor is using this property I would be surprised if he agreed to sell it to you....unless he's doing the ATV'ing in hopes that you will make an offer and take it off his hands. Keep us posted once you find out.
If you do go with hedges or such, be sure you have room to trim the backside of them and still be on your property.

Moon of Ohio

SPIKER · Sep 9, 2004

JUNKMAN:

huh I thought bamboo only like WARM WET climates!? guess you could get a few shoots of bamboo from him and send it to you're campground friends and make on the side sapasatory! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

DannyD · Sep 9, 2004

The part behind my property would be about a quarter acre. They can turn the ATV with no trouble and not be off the land they own. It would make mine about 1.25 acres

dmccarty · Sep 10, 2004

Spiker,

Bamboo grows in many climates. It used to be all over parts of the Eastern US. They where called cane brakes. I have read some articles that suggest that one of the reasons that the Passenger Pigeon went extinct was not only the market hunting of the birds but the destruction of the cane brakes. Don't know if it is true though.

There is lots of bamboo growing here in NC.

Later,
Dan McCarty

Henro · Sep 10, 2004

huh I thought bamboo only like WARM WET climates!? 

I have a pretty good patch of bamboo growing here in the Western PA area. About 20 foot high at max, and VERY dense...actually to keep it under control I just mow the shoots down ever spring...if I don't pick them first for eating...

Once in 20+ years when we had a -20 degree spell it died above ground, but it came up again as it always does in the spring anyway. Diameter of this stuff is up to about 2 inches max, but generally 1 inch and up.

It is really nice stuff, but grows like a weed to some extent too...very aggressive...yet easy to control IF you cut/break off the shoots when they are coming up in the spring. Once a year is when the new growth happens.

On a side note, under a heavy wet snow, it is really interesting to see the whole "forrest" lay on the ground under the weight. 20 foot heigh becomes 2 or 3 feet. Sort of spirals to the ground, so most of the stalks do not break. When the snow melts off, it stands back up again.

Love my bamboo...amazing stuff...