Helpful neighbor!

[goeduck]

Please at least post the title of the new thread in here so we can find it. I want to follow it for sure.

 

[DB Pilot]

I will start a new thread titled "Your Land is my Land"

 

[sixdogs]

Shield Arc,

I've been asking my grape farming neighbor to stop running his tractors, trucks, cars, wagons, sprayers, etc. on my property to tend his grape rows for seven years now. To no avail, so this year I posted the property and put t-posts up to block the equipment. He has pulled up the posts and signs twice now throwing them into my field. I had the county sheriff talk to him and he keeps doing whatever he wants. Property line is not in dispute. He just doesn't care. Inconsistently says you can come on my property and next time says stay off and the says he doesn't care if I hunt his property. So unsure how stable this guy is. The grape row ends are 1 foot from his chosen line.

During questioning about this problem I was asked why isn't the property surveyed? Well, it will be next week. But the neighbor walked the line with me seven years ago and told me where the line is and I said I wasn't sure. So the grapes, a recently dug drainage ditch and signs are all on his side but his equipment runs on my side. Things are starting to heat up and not sure where to go from here. I think a fence will be run down. I'm thinking of my own deep as I can drainage ditch after the official survey.

Document everything. Take pictures. For a start...

Does he not have any other way in?

Let me offer a different approach. Try to find out what motivates the farmer and it's likely something other than farming.

There is a book by a former private investigator and advisor to the stars etc that explains what motivates people to do the things they do and how to get them to stop doing it. A friend told me it is required reading for some higher up federal police types. It's The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. and you can get it at the library. After a slow start for the first 20 pages, I couldn't put it down. It may help solve many of the problems people face in these kinds of situations. Just my two cents and better than guessing what the real problem is. Can't hurt.

 

[Xfaxman]

I will start a new thread titled "Your Land is my Land"

Here it is: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/395410-your-land-my-land.html

 

[Jstpssng]

You guys think you have crappy neighbor's! Good luck topping this!

- One neighbor just gave me a pile of road gravel so I could spread it on the mud holes of my one mile gravel road. It was only about a 1/3 load (at $375/load) and it was for mud holes way past his house! The Ingrate!

- Another neighbor lost all their hens to predators leaving them with just their rooster. I'm in the process (now done) of exchanging my first batch of chickens with the 2nd, my BIL/SIL only wanted 2 hens, so that left 7 hens and one rooster for me to get rid of. My neighbor agreed to take all my hens! How Rude!

- I borrowed a 10' AL ladder from another neighbor; used it to install some LED lighting in my shop. I kept it because I planned to install some more. So I talked to my neighbors and asked if it was ok to keep it a while longer - and they didn't just say yes, they said keep it, it's yours!!! The Nerve of Some People!


Like I said, bet you can't top that!

PFFT! You think that YOU have it rough! Last year my neighbors were cutting junk hemlock trees to sell for low grade pulpwood. I offered to buy a couple of better quality logs, and pay to have them delivered to a nearby mill that does custom sawing. My "cost" for this, as well as transporting a few logs that I had cut was two homegrown turkeys.
I didn't get my garage built before winter, and had just brought home my nearly new Kubota. They had a building which wasn't being used for the winter so I offered them $100 to park my tractor and ATV under cover. They wouldn't accept the money, but I am still using it.
With terrible neighbors like these, how in the world am I supposed to lose faith in humanity?

 

[check]

PFFT! You think that YOU have it rough! Last year my neighbors were cutting junk hemlock trees to sell for low grade pulpwood. I offered to buy a couple of better quality logs, and pay to have them delivered to a nearby mill that does custom sawing. My "cost" for this, as well as transporting a few logs that I had cut was two homegrown turkeys. I didn't get my garage built before winter, and had just brought home my nearly new Kubota. They had a building which wasn't being used for the winter so I offered them $100 to park my tractor and ATV under cover. They wouldn't accept the money, but I am still using it. With terrible neighbors like these, how in the world am I supposed to lose faith in humanity?

That's nothing, man. My cottage neighbour knew I was coming up after a big snowstorm, and he had the audacity to go and blow out the windrow at the entrance to my driveway!

And to make matters worse, he raked all the snow off the tarp covering my pontoon boat so the frame underneath would not collapse from the weight of all the wet snow. And he even left footprints!

 

[aczlan]

Our neighbors brought over a bunch of cupcakes last night, they were made with some of the eggs that we gave them. They are great neighbors.

Aaron Z

 

[goeduck]

After every time I do a favor for my neighbors they show up on my doorstep with a 64 oz growler of my favorite beer. :drink:

 

[Jstpssng]

After every time I do a favor for my neighbors they show up on my doorstep with a 64 oz growler of my favorite beer. :drink:

I do similar occasionally for my neighbor. His favorite is Miller Lite though, so I get out of it pretty cheaply!

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

I do similar occasionally for my neighbor. His favorite is Miller Lite though, so I get out of it pretty cheaply!

I hear you. My neighbor's favorite beer is Bud, and favorite hard liquor is Pendleton. Mine however is Sam Adams or Fat Tire (or similar), and Glenlivet 15. We're constantly doing things for each other. When he does something for me, I always get him a 12 pk or case of bud, and a bottle of Pendleton (depending on the favor). But I make sure to tell him he does NOT have to reciprocate when it's the other way around. Lol. Just wouldn't be fair. I'm very lucky that I have a great neighbor here.