Helpful neighbor!

[Happy Gilmore]

How's the progress

 

[breadtrk]

I'm doing this just to annoy my pesky neighbor and since we are zoned agricultural there is nothing they can do or say about it. This is Buckwheat, when it flowers I'll cut it down and plant Daikon radishes. They get ticked, I get soil amendment.



This cleared part of the field I'm reclaiming will never have anything allowed to grow on it so that it can turn into a dust bowl. Prevailing winds will make for much more cleaning at their place.

 

[lilranch2001]

Dude, I am glad you are not one of my neighbors.
I have neighbors from gentleman farmers to rednecks to an addition across the road that sprang up 5 years after I purchased my land.

Not one of them would I try to just arbitrarily p*ss off

Life is to short not to try to live life in good humor

 

[breadtrk]

Nothing arbitrary about it. They are from the city and came out here calling codes, animal control, police for the kinds of things that are everywhere in a rural farming community. Implements stored outside, parts trucks parked around, free ranging dogs, chickens, overgrown fence lines, etc.

I am being kind, the rest of the neighbors want to burn them out.


Go back and read the whole thread before casting judgement on something you don't know squat about or move back to the city too, Dude.

 

[joshuabardwell]

free ranging dogs

I was with you up until then. A neighbor of mine's dogs get onto my property with some regularity and kill my chickens. I put up an electric fence, which keeps them out most of the time, but not all of the time. I have to keep my driveway gate closed or they come up it, which means any package that doesn't fit in my mailbox, I have to drive to the post office to pick up, instead of it being left on my porch. Also, I have to get out of the car twice every time I go in or out my driveway. I haven't got the least bit of patience for anybody who lets their dogs free roam to make problems for their neighbors.

But I still haven't called animal control on the guy or done anything to harass him.

 

[haveissues]

I was with you up until then. A neighbor of mine's dogs get onto my property with some regularity and kill my chickens. I put up an electric fence, which keeps them out most of the time, but not all of the time. I have to keep my driveway gate closed or they come up it, which means any package that doesn't fit in my mailbox, I have to drive to the post office to pick up, instead of it being left on my porch. Also, I have to get out of the car twice every time I go in or out my driveway. I haven't got the least bit of patience for anybody who lets their dogs free roam to make problems for their neighbors.

But I still haven't called animal control on the guy or done anything to harass him.

I'm with you. I could care less who stores what outside but keep your dogs off my property. You are a lot kinder about it than I would be, especially after your animals get killed. People that are too lazy to control their dogs shouldn't have them.

 

[lilranch2001]

Nothing arbitrary about it. They are from the city and came out here calling codes, animal control, police for the kinds of things that are everywhere in a rural farming community. Implements stored outside, parts trucks parked around, free ranging dogs, chickens, overgrown fence lines, etc.

I am being kind, the rest of the neighbors want to burn them out.


Go back and read the whole thread before casting judgement on something you don't know squat about or move back to the city too, Dude.

I have read the entire post, as a matter of fact I have been subscribed to the entire post since its inception.
Maybe YOU are the one who needs to read the whole thread again

This entire thread is about a bad neighbor, in which you seem to me to be one!

And had you posted SOME of your facts initially in your post I MAY have had some sympathy for you.

Once again, I will take my neighbors over you any day

 

[lilranch2001]

As a matter of fact IMHO this thread is even more about how neighbors should be more like Shield Arc and show grace patience and restraint when dealing with other people.

He has had many chances when he could have done very un neighborly things, but has let the law do its thing

 

[PILOON]

I'm in total agreement and I love dogs.

I like dogs as well and my wife loves flowers but the neighbor has a huge mutt that simply plows down the flowers every weekend.
They bring the mutt to the country to 'free roam' as they have a condo in city and wish to 'exercise the mutt.
Naturally he (mutt) needs to relieve himself as he passes across our property and usually does so next to my garbage bin.
The mutt owner generally simply looks the other way and comments that mutt is simply a big puppy and harmless.
Maybe I should trample his flower beds so that he get the picture!
It is very frustrating and I sympathize with the poster.

 

[madmax12]

Much of this debate has less to do with where one is from (country vs city) and more to do with common sense, common decency, and common respect. It has more to do with HOW one was raised, rather than where one was raised.

 

[cqaigy2]

Much of this debate has less to do with where one is from (country vs city) and more to do with common sense, common decency, and common respect. It has more to do with HOW one was raised, rather than where one was raised.

+1 :thumbsup:

 

[dave1949]

Much of this debate has less to do with where one is from (country vs city) and more to do with common sense, common decency, and common respect. It has more to do with HOW one was raised, rather than where one was raised.

+2 :thumbsup:

I don't understand the logic that whoever was in a particular area first automagically gets to define acceptable behavior, common sense & decency. That is what is being done if you try to fit in with idiots just because they preceded you. What is their argument, "If you didn't want to put up with idiots, you shouldn't have moved here." ?

Fortunately I don't have neighbor problems. My sympathy to those who do though.

 

[joshuabardwell]

I don't understand the logic that whoever was in a particular area first automagically gets to define acceptable behavior, common sense & decency. That is what is being done if you try to fit in with idiots just because they preceded you. What is their argument, "If you didn't want to put up with idiots, you shouldn't have moved here." ?

I accept that there's different standards for different areas. If you live on a 1/4 acre lot and mow your lawn at 8 AM on a Saturday, your neighbors may rightly have words with you. If you live on five acres in the country, there's a different expectation. My neighbor sometimes rides a loud, 2-stroke dirt-bike around his field for hours. It annoys me, but I know that one of the reasons people (including me) move to the country is so they can have some space and make some noise. That being said, there has to be a line somewhere. There's no excuse for damaging someone's property. We all understand that sometimes an animal escapes and makes a little trouble, but if you intentionally let your dogs roam free, or if your donkey is escaping every three days because your fence is inadequate to hold him, that's another story.

(No, I did not make up the donkey example.)

 

[Mace Canute]

I've heard a feed of pineapple makes a dog's stool sticky, watery and stinky...and I've also heard that soap will do much the same, just have to figure out a delivery method.

 

[chvfrk98]

I accept that there's different standards for different areas. If you live on a 1/4 acre lot and mow your lawn at 8 AM on a Saturday, your neighbors may rightly have words with you. If you live on five acres in the country, there's a different expectation. My neighbor sometimes rides a loud, 2-stroke dirt-bike around his field for hours. It annoys me, but I know that one of the reasons people (including me) move to the country is so they can have some space and make some noise. That being said, there has to be a line somewhere. There's no excuse for damaging someone's property. We all understand that sometimes an animal escapes and makes a little trouble, but if you intentionally let your dogs roam free, or if your donkey is escaping every three days because your fence is inadequate to hold him, that's another story.

(No, I did not make up the donkey example.)

What's wrong with mowing at 8am any day of the week? Maybe with the exception of New Years Day? I would be happy that my neighbor was maintaining their property. I suppose they have fewer rights because they don't own as much land.

 

[KretZ]

What's wrong with mowing at 8am any day of the week? Maybe with the exception of New Years Day? I would be happy that my neighbor was maintaining their property. I suppose they have fewer rights because they don't own as much land.

One of the hardest things to get used to since I have been in Germany is quiet hours...and days. Sunday you can't mow grass, sort recycling or really do anything that makes noise, this includes all holidays of religious significance. Then the rest of the week quiet hours are from 8pm - 8am. With a period in the middle of the day of 1000 - 1400 for "lunch time peacefulness". Germans are all about laws, they love making them, and obeying them. Everything except the speed limit on the highway, that is the only time the Germans are more relaxed than the states.

 

[Ridgewalker]

I'm doing this just to annoy my pesky neighbor and since we are zoned agricultural there is nothing they can do or say about it. This is Buckwheat, when it flowers I'll cut it down and plant Daikon radishes. They get ticked, I get soil amendment.

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This cleared part of the field I'm reclaiming will never have anything allowed to grow on it so that it can turn into a dust bowl. Prevailing winds will make for much more cleaning at their place.

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You sir, are a tool! And not a good, useful tool.