lilranch2001
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Life in general is a risk…….
Ten years ago I had a dispute with a neighbor that moved the property line 10ft to his benefit when he built a new fence. I gave him six months to move the date with a specific completion date. The day before the deadline he hadn't done anything. I drove my FEL tractor over to his pasture gate and waited for him to come back out from haying his cattle. He piddled in the pasture for 20 minutes thinking I would leave. I told him that tomorrow morning I would remove his fence with my grapple throwing all the steel in the iron scrap pile and cutting the wood posts for firewood. He said he'd rather I didn't do that. I said then move your fence. The next morning he disassembled his fence and put it back on the legal property line. Our relationship was a bit distant for a couple years. But he's gotten over it and we get along fine.
I've got a new neighbor on the other side now. City guy from Florida with too much money. I've had to put up a gate and add no trespassing signs to keep him from hunting on me. But the other day he called asking for help. His pickup had coasted off and ended up in the pond. I took my tractor down and pulled it out. I think we'll get along fine. He just has a different understanding of property access than us locals. His initial attitude seemed to be that he could do whatever he wanted.
No guns involved in either situation.
Same here. I mow several miles of roadbanks and waterways into fields. I'm proud of my little neighborhood and it's residents.My little world of Indiana, all the neighbors are quite open with each other, and we “ trespass” on each other’s property, all the time and take care of each other’s properties when we need to.
I’ve lived here for over 30 years and mowed my farmer neighbor to the west properties that he didn’t get to or didn’t get around to because he had more chores and he couldn’t take care of and since I didn’t I kept his weeds mowed down and I do the same thing on the neighbor to the east.
Between both neighbors I mow an extra 4-5 acres each week, the farmer to the west passed on 6-7 years ago, but his widow could never take care of it and it makes my property just a little bit nicer!