Your Land is my Land
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I not only reside in the county where most of the film was shot...I live directly on one of the rivers that was used...
I have a speaker hidden in the little pump house I use for watering the garden along the river bank...I keep the banjo music cued up for when we get some paddlers (river rats)...passing by...we get some great reactions...!
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FWIW...the pale skinned banjo playing kid in the movie is alive, well and is actually very intelligent...not anything like the character that was depicted...( a friend's son went to school with him)
Also, as long as we're digressing...the old lady "Louise" (RIP) that cooks them all dinner at the end was the matriarch of the Dillard family that runs this place: Dillard House Restaurant | Dillard House Back then the all you could eat breakfast buffet was less than $4 coffee/tea included...it was awesome...!
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back to on the topic and waiting for the survey...
It is not uncommon here for local surveyors to be requested to place concrete monuments at specified increments along property lines...also the latest survey should be recorded at the local hall of records and attached to the original recorded deed...said concrete monuments should be noted on survey...
Kyle_in_Tex
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Now that was funny!
I've read your comments about the banjo music before... if I remember correctly you also put up a few signs to that effect for the paddlers to enjoy.
The background info about the locals is new and interesting... thanks for passing it along. :thumbsup:In the case of the OP I doubt that the additional expense of concrete monuments would be worthwhile, as the abutter would simply destroy them as he has done to other markers in the past. Over here that last is a violation in itself; yet he apparently doesn't give two shakes, and is accustomed to doing whatever he wants. He kind of reminds me of Ben Gazzara's character in the old movie "Road House"... I hope that this story doesn't end the same way. (Although perhaps a polar bear might cool down the abutter.
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I find it more entertaining than informative. So much repetition of what's already been said along with some bone head macho suggestions that would put the O.P. in deep trouble with the law. His neighbor would have the last laugh.
Then there have been cases where people have been right, only to have ended up "dead right". With all the crazies in the country today, you never know and can't be too careful as to how you should approach certain situations. That happened to an innocent couple right here in PA a few years ago. And that also happened to be over a property dispute.
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The markers I'm familiar with are at grade level...usually 4"x4" concrete with a half inch or so of exposed rebar as a pin mark...here the standard is every 50'...once they are documented removing them (or any other thing) is illegally destroying private property...a criminal offense...
If the neighbor is trespassing and is uncooperative...everything must be documented for any legal action that will atone the issue...
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When I was having a boundry dispute with a neighbor that kept taking down my survey markers the State Police told me that it was a civil matter and they would not get involved.
The idiot neighbor was telling me that his line came over further. I asked to see his deed so we could work on the conflict and he showed me a deed that my great grandfather had sold to the woman he bought from not the deed he bought. The previous owner had swapped some land with my great uncle to get access to water. They had the deeds rewrote to show the change and thats what she sold my neighbor.
Try as I might I could not convince my neighbor that he could only go by the deed he bought. He hired surveyors and they told him the same. The idiot could not understand.
I spent a little less than $2000 on an attorney and court cost to force him to acknowledge the line. Judge informed him about the potential charges of trespassing, no problems after that.
In retrospect should have sued him for my cost.
On another note Kentucky Utilities is telling dad that they are going to cut a tree down on him thats in their easement.
Problem is no ones deed in that area list an easement and the county clerk cannot find where one was filed.
Property disputes are everywhere even when the facts speak for themselves
The idiot neighbor was telling me that his line came over further. I asked to see his deed so we could work on the conflict and he showed me a deed that my great grandfather had sold to the woman he bought from not the deed he bought. The previous owner had swapped some land with my great uncle to get access to water. They had the deeds rewrote to show the change and thats what she sold my neighbor.
Try as I might I could not convince my neighbor that he could only go by the deed he bought. He hired surveyors and they told him the same. The idiot could not understand.
I spent a little less than $2000 on an attorney and court cost to force him to acknowledge the line. Judge informed him about the potential charges of trespassing, no problems after that.
In retrospect should have sued him for my cost.
On another note Kentucky Utilities is telling dad that they are going to cut a tree down on him thats in their easement.
Problem is no ones deed in that area list an easement and the county clerk cannot find where one was filed.
Property disputes are everywhere even when the facts speak for themselves
Here they would be charged with destroying a survey marker, which I believe that he has already done. Along with stealing hay, and myriad other things which the OP has or hasn't mentioned. Yet it appears that it's his way of doing business, and for whatever reason nobody has called him out on it.
Redlands Okie
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Have everything ready for the survey visit. Post hole digger on the tractor. (After all this is a tractor forum) Go as deep as you can and pour in a few sacks of concrete. They can even be dry since the concrete will absorb water from around it in the next day or two. Or pour in a bit of concrete and a bit of water and keep going in layers. Then have the surveyor stick his markers into the wet concrete. They could be moved but would take some effort 
Molalla1
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Sonny was a friend of mine at one time. . .it would have been no problem for this to "go away"
