Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

The root ball has a lot of dirt in it making it very heavy to lift and it was at the limit for the loader to pick up. So dropped it and used the minix to hack some of the dirt off before moving it out

Dropping stumps works well to knock the dirt off of them. But I learned the hard way that they can bounce into the front of the tractor sometimes. Haven't broken anything like that, yet...

 

[m7040]

Dropping stumps works well to knock the dirt off of them. But I learned the hard way that they can bounce into the front of the tractor sometimes. Haven't broken anything like that, yet...

Agree, but in this case I could barely lift it off the ground more than a few inches

 

[buckeyefarmer]

How are they the neighbors from hell?

We first met the people making hay. They had left a hay rake on “my” lot. Neighbors had left a note on it saying they were trespassing. The rake was over 300 yards from the line.
So after talking with them awhile, we went down to the area where the neighbors have been mowing on “my” lot.
Neighbor woman comes down. Our first meeting. Wanted to know if she could help us. I said no, we are buying this lot and are looking at it. She said, you’re on my lot. I replayed, no, I know where the property corner is )pointing over to it), and I have a copy of the survey. She replies this land is ours. I again mentioned I know where the line is.
We left her and looked around, walked up to other end. (And the hay guys had mowed off 5 of the 6 septic stakes). the neighbor and her husband were walking up in the corner behind their house (i saw a pink flag up there) and they went down to other end. I half expected they would pull the flags there.
We talked some more with the baler guy

, and as we were walking to our vehicle noticed the neighbor lady had driven another no trespassing sign in the ground well on “my” lot.
We left then.

I just can’t believe people would act like that the first meeting.

I will have a surveyor set stakes on the property line, the same surveyor who did the survey when it was just subdivided in July. I’m not getting involved with the neighbor, I’ll let surveyor and lawyers handle it.

But the whole incident was depressing to say the least.

 

[wngsprd]

wngsprd do you ever go to Dominion outdoors?

No, I wasn't familiar with them, but their website looks good.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

In Virginia:

Does not seem to need to be posted. The land needs to be posted to ban trespassing.
/edit - to clarify - it looks like hunters and fishers require permission from the owner regardless of if it's posted or not. But apparently others, like hikers only need permission if it's posted.
In Mississippi everyone needs permission to go on other peoples land.
Whereas in Vermont they are proud of letting people go on unposted land.

Read my earlier post. Found out The reason the neighbors posted their land (and some of mine) is the guy who has been cutting hay there for 10 yrs drove his tractor across the corner of the neighbors lot. Instead of walking over and saying something, they put up multiple signs and parked a truck between them. The hay guys didn’t know.

 

[wngsprd]

We first met the people making hay. They had left a hay rake on “my” lot. Neighbors had left a note on it saying they were trespassing. The rake was over 300 yards from the line.
So after talking with them awhile, we went down to the area where the neighbors have been mowing on “my” lot.
Neighbor woman comes down. Our first meeting. Wanted to know if she could help us. I said no, we are buying this lot and are looking at it. She said, you’re on my lot. I replayed, no, I know where the property corner is )pointing over to it), and I have a copy of the survey. She replies this land is ours. I again mentioned I know where the line is.
We left her and looked around, walked up to other end. (And the hay guys had mowed off 5 of the 6 septic stakes). the neighbor and her husband were walking up in the corner behind their house (i saw a pink flag up there) and they went down to other end. I half expected they would pull the flags there.
We talked some more with the baler guyView attachment 767419 , and as we were walking to our vehicle noticed the neighbor lady had driven another no trespassing sign in the ground well on “my” lot.
We left then.

I just can’t believe people would act like that the first meeting.

I will have a surveyor set stakes on the property line, the same surveyor who did the survey when it was just subdivided in July. I’m not getting involved with the neighbor, I’ll let surveyor and lawyers handle it.

But the whole incident was depressing to say the least.

Real sorry about those neighbors. They've probably been using that land like their own for a long time if no one lived there.

 

[wngsprd]

Alien, prayers for your wife.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Real sorry about those neighbors. They've probably been using that land like their own for a long time if no one lived there.

They just bought theirs 2 months ago from same realtor and same owner. The lots were just subdivided in July. All markers are still visible.

 

[m7040]

BEF, We had a neighbor that after buying was telling me his property line was several hundred ft into our land based on who sold it had told them "where the line was". Bill said etc.......... Walking down the corners with them and showing them the property stakes convinced them that they had been had. And then we had another new neighbor that simply asked me to show him the line and he has respected that except he wants to cut down his trees.

 

[Alien]

To be honest, I don't think your CK30 will have the "oomph" necessary for a decent backhoe

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But, best of luck!!!

Ha ha, Yeah I wasn't really talking about my CK30, just a backhoe in general.