Birch score about one minutes drive from my house. Today the arborist is cutting up the trunks and says I can help myself. Pictured pile is three loads in the trusty Ford Fusion
Sloping away would cause flooding in my neighbours driveway, and keeping your neighbours happy is always a good thing
Update : Three dudes with pickup trucks beat me to the haul! Not even a single stick left! AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH.
I would have been there earlier but I was having eye surgery, yes eye surgery and still trying to score some free BTUs
Sorry to hear that you lost out Fulltang, we have to move fast in these parts, as wood will disappear in an hour. I'm glad to make your aquaintance, and I hope your next find makes it to your yard.
I have two abutters that have their perimeter drains to their houses dumping right onto my property....
One call to your town's building department should garner a visit from the town inspector and get you a cease and desist or notice of violation (if you don't want the water ) I'd talk to the neighbors first unless they're not approachable. You can't add to a normal course of water across properties nor can you build a berm to stop a normal course of water - at least not without getting a variance and a variance would need the blessing of affected abutters A copy of a violation notice sent to a property owner's home owner's insurance company from the Town usual garners swift remedial action from a homeowner. Most houses that get built here now have to have a recharge system of some sort on all roof water. When we built our garage dry wells had to be drawn onto the plot plan and blueprints to get a building permit by a surveyor documenting current elevations, then we had to petition to delete them using the same elevations and distances to abutters. There are state laws and towns' and what your town chooses to enforce. You don't know until you visit an appropriate person in your town's system of rules and by-laws enforcement.
Drainage is a local code issue. When I lived in CA I could not add one drop to a neighbor's place. Where I am now there is no stated limit on how much I can add to my neighbor but common courtesy says not to overload his drainage capacity. I have a low area in the back of my place that takes drainage from some nearby properties and passes them through to my immediate neighbor. (It is more or less a drainage ditch across the back of the entire neighborhood but it is covered in grass and is a shallow drainage area) In CA they would have been able to sue me to stop me using that ditch area for any purpose but around here it is more or less considered a normal situation. Here, I see about 40 inches per year of precip while in my CA location it was much closer to 20 inches in a "typical" year. Forget drought years since those were ridiculously low on precip. In CA I saw most of my annual precip in just 3 or 4 good rain storms most often in February or there about. The rest of the year was dry. Here the rain and snow come the year around and nobody gets upset if we get a good 2 inch rain storm. It takes care of the "droughts" that the silly buggers around here will call if we have a full 2 weeks between rains.
All this talk of codes and town inspectors is scaring me. Thankfully I don't have any issues with any of that, that is the nice thing about having woods all around you. And any water that anyone could send on my land would be greatly appreciated after last summers drought when the well went all but dry, and we had to haul water for two months.
When people ask what my ideal house would be, I reply that I want the ranch from the movie "Legends of the Fall." Montana, couple/few thousand acres, plenty of game and fish, and anyone coming over to cause problems is well within range of a rifle...which I could shoot off my porch and not have anyone near enough to care.
