Wood Fuel Co-operative / Update From the UK

Sav, hunting rights definitely factored into my 40 acre purchase. The property owner had 210 acres to sell, needed to maximize the value of the land in bankruptcy, and he knew that the minimum for a landowner deer permit is 40 acres in this state. He decided that lots of 40 acres meant he could basically sell 5 of those 40 acre landowner plots and sell them as hunting preserves. Since only one of those 40 acre plots would front on a public road, he also made rights to trespass over the area connecting to the road a condition of the sale. I chose to buy the one that fronts on the road so there are a number of people with the "right to trespass over the northernmost 30 feet" of my property for access only. What it comes down to is simple. I own outright the minimum road frontage to be allowed to build a home and nobody else in those 210 acres owns such a right. Folks are more or less free to trespass on the northernmost edge of my property so I do nothing to encourage that use but I also cannot block their use of that strip of my land. What that means is that folks who own the other acreage in fact do trespass on that land and I just wave at them as they go by. On the other hand, I have already refused to grant my local utility the right to extend power across my property to serve those other people because I know full well that the person who owns the property right next to mine wants to make believe that his home on that property is just a camp site so he would not need to meet the minimum road frontage requirements for a permanent home. The guy is a real scum bag and I have no desire to make it easier for him to violate the restrictions on his property. Yes, I am that guy who is hard to get along with when you want to do stuff that was never intended. I have already seen him use his property as a wrecking yard to recover the salvage value of "mobile homes" and have no desire to ever see him as a neighbor who actually lives there. If local law enforcement or the EPA wants to set up and monitor his junkyard type activities I will be happy to give them the right to trespass on my property for that purpose. He is already under a court order to restore his "pond" by removing the trailer frames and waste materials he dumped into the pond. It seems I am not the only neighbor who objects to what he has actually been doing and someone else made sure he was taken to court for that violation.

 

I haven't heard of that book but thanks for mentioning it as I will be getting a copy pretty soon! Looks very interesting!

 

Sunny here this afternoon so I split for half hour or so..
Ok so I didn't do it all today but I did do it all by hand - axe in foreground for scale. Depending on how cold the next two winters are this may not get burnt for 3 years.