I try to get along with my neighbors and it pays dividends, both ways. I once had a nice dead white oak just inside my line but would fall onto my neighbors property. I offered to split the wood with him. He came over with rigging and tractor and we tried to pull the tree my way which would have been more convenient for me to buck and gather. The plan failed and took out a black oak on his side, no problem although it was large it wasn't timber quality and made him future firewood. I harvested the white oak and he wouldn't take any of it and I offered to cut the black oak and he said he would do it. I had several decent size red oak down on the other side of the hill 30 to 40 feet from the line. They were blown down last year but not touching the ground that were going to be difficult for me to get. Last year he and I talked about working together on halfs. I've been busy cutting wood that's easier to get to so when he called last week and asked if he could have them I told him sure. That's what good neighbors do. If he and I had been squabbling over property rights I would have said no. My property touches 8 other property owners and I have never seen several of them and never had any issues with any one of them in 38 years. I did however have a dispute with 9th property owner across the road that inherited the homestead when her mother passed. I got along great with her mom and step dad and helped them by plowing snow and making sure they had necessities during bad weather. The daughter and drunken boyfriend moved in and soon after the trouble started, she claimed she owned about 5 acres on my side of the road and could provide a survey her mom had done to prove it. She said the line was down my driveway, she couldn't find the survey and we tried to be civil and also didn't want to pay for a survey. I even went to the county recorders office and got my deed and hers and showed that both had the road as the borders. Finely came to a head when the drunk threatened to put a gate across our driveway. We got a survey and had him send a certified letter and a along with a letter from us basically saying we didn't want to be a$$holes but we had to protect our property rights. We will never be friendly neighbors but we try to be civil to them. After the expense they caused us I'm not sure I would help them unless it was an emergency.
'After the expense they caused us I'm not sure I would help them unless it was an emergency' I'd play sick on that day.
Ok, here’s a story about property lines. Had just taken over legal authority of an elderly aunts home when she went to a nursing home. Very large oak split at the notch and caused a huge mess knocking down all sorts of smaller trees and leaving itself as a big widow maker. Needed a bucket truck to cut it down, just too dangerous to work from the ground. The offending tree was right on the property line. Talked with the neighbor, another elderly lady. Claimed the tree was on my side of the line so it wasn’t her concern. I took her at her word and hired a tree guy to get it down where I would take over and buck it all up. Worked on it one weekend. Had to cut my way in from the tops which is the opposite of how I prefer to cut trees. A real tangled mess it was. Came back the next weekend and found the neighbors friend who cuts her lawn etc etc had used his truck to pull the big logs onto her property, cut, split and took them away already. Needless to say I was quite mad seeing as I paid the money to get this thing down. Stomping the ground mad I got roughly two cords out of the branches. Bet that moron got three out of the trunk. Now the neighbor claims she looked again and it’s on her property. Miraculous. Of course she didn’t want the bill from the tree guy Went to the town hall for a plot plan, ridiculous hand drawn thing offering no realistic help at determining property lines. Talked to the cops and they said there’s nothing they could do. Would have to sue in court. So surveying and court costs to get even with that jack wagon. Yeah not happening In my younger days I might have taken a flamethrower to that place but I had enough on my plate already. Just a rant and to let you know don’t get too worked up over that little tree in your pics. Laws vary from state to state. In ct whoever owns the stump owns the wood. They also own the cost of getting rid of it if any. Just because it falls on your property doesn’t mean you own it. Keep the peace. Let your neighbor know your concerns but I wouldn’t snag up that little bit of wood and create animosity.
I burned some brush/yard waste in my burn barrel today. Most of it was dry, but some of it smoked a little upon first dropping it into the barrel............................not a single neighbor cared!!!! Even the ones that were "downwind"!!!!
I blow the leaves out of my yard into the neighbors yards. I don't have any trees in mine, they do. I work so I can buy nice things like,,,leaf blowers..they don't work, they are dead beats. Each to their own. Except the old widow lady, Mrs. Andy. I blow her leaves and clear her driveway in the winter at no charge...she's not a dead beat.
This has been an interesting thread to say the least. I guess the best way to sum up my thoughts, is that expression ( to paraphrase) Never attribute to malice, what can be explained away with stupidity. Maybe the guy just doesn't know where the line is, maybe he doesn't have the same personal boundaries or sense/set of values. Maybe he was coming back later? Maybe he doesn't care, you never know. I mean, I wouldn't wait until he drops 10 more trees on my own property either, but I don't think it's defcon 1 over a single tree.
Send him the bill just for snickers. And maybe the old doll will be 6 feet under in 3 years when you burn the Oak you ended up with.
Sent the bill to the old doll just for snickers. Already knew I wouldn’t get a reply. Story is three years old. House has long been sold and out of my hair. One truckload of that oak has been brought in for this year. Most of it will live for four years.
You mean your neighbors didn't complain about your smoke being on their property without their permission?
OK, cards on the table here...I have on the neighbors side of the property line without permission...
