Neighbors

37chief · Jan 16, 2016

The neighbor came over and told me I need to move everything away from his fence three feet on my side. He said he is getting a new fence, and needed the room. It is lot like a few small things. There are disc gangs, cattle loading ramp, cattle squeeze. and a pile of pipe panels. He has been a very good neighbor. I said I will move a few things, like a pile of telephone poles so they have access from my side. His side is full of animal pens. I'm trying to be nice, but when does it stop? stan

Gary from Muleshoe · Jan 16, 2016

If he is building a fence, why doesn't he move his stuff? Would seem to me he would need not get on you property for anything.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 16, 2016

If he is building and paying for a line fence you should be happy he doesn't ask you to pay for 1/2 of it.

4play · Jan 16, 2016

It might seem like a PITA to move your stuff but you do share the fence right? Maybe he just wants to move the fence 3ft over on your side :shock:

Ray · Jan 16, 2016

Regulations in our township say you cannot put anything within 4 ft. of a fence row,including new trees.A building has to be set back 15 ft.

Goose · Jan 16, 2016

If he's bearing the full cost of a common fence, move your stuff and STFU. Why was your stuff that close to the property line in the first place?

ztrmower · Jan 16, 2016

should not be on your side to do fence anyway. is it his half fence or your half.

Bill VA · Jan 16, 2016

I'd go ahead and move it with a smile. IMHO firstly, if he is paying for the fence, that's an expense you won't incur, second and IMHO most important is to have a good neighbor. I've been down the road of angry/enemy type neighbors and it ain't fun - even when you're in the right.

My vote is move your stuff, let him build the fence and live another day.

Good luck,
Bill

37chief · Jan 16, 2016

I figure it's my land, and I can do anything I want with it. Our only restraction is we need 10 ft for a structor next to a property line. His animal corrals are right up to the fence on his side. I don't have a problem with that. Like I said I am giving him access through my place, by moving some stuff, and saving him a lot of labor having to carry the old fence by hand a long ways to a truck to haul it away, and brining the new material back in. By having access through my palace, he can back right up to the opening I am making for him. Stan

WGM · Jan 16, 2016

You admit he has been a good neighbor and he is replacing the fence with no cost to you. I would be moving the stuff with a smile.

WGM · Jan 16, 2016

Amen!

730virgil · Jan 16, 2016

sounds like he is asking a lot from you maybe it is time to check local fence laws

mite-help · Jan 16, 2016

some years back, I had 320' of cheap, low field fence with 2 strands barb wire between me & new neighbor that had just bought old neighbor's place. he was bringing in horses & wanted to know if he could change fence @ his expense. went with no-barb & taller real HD horse fence-. offered to chip in as old fence was pretty rotted. he refused money, but I pitched in with tractors,tools, my help. very happy.

JD Seller · Jan 16, 2016

In the last ten years or so if I need a fence done I just paid the entire thing myself. The hassle with neighbors over them paying for any fence is just too much as I get older. The laws have been muddied up these days to were it is not clear on who pays for what when one land owner has livestock and the other does not.

I just had the entire line fence replaced on the land at the daughters farm. The one fellow in the back was kind of bitching about it as he would no longer be able to come on the woods ground on the side he did not own. I politely asked him if he wanted to pay for his half or shut up and let me build it like I was going to. LOL he became a whole lot more agreeable real quick. (He does have livestock as well so by law he would have had to pay for half)

keh · Jan 16, 2016

Ray,

Which state allows the no new trees in 4 feet rule? Here in SC land untended, especially it seems along fences, grows up in trees. Maybe I need to introduce the local birds to that rule. They eat red cedar berries which they partly digest, then pass the seeds with their droppings and the seeds promptly come up. I have to pull up seedlings in my lawn and along the fences every year.

KEH

Steve A W · Jan 16, 2016

If you are saving him the hassle of moving his stuff,
He ought to help you.
Just my way of thinking.

Steve A W

Mark - IN. · Jan 16, 2016

Stan,

I'm not clear here. Are you saying that the reason that he wants you to move your stuff so he doesn't have to move his stuff, and then has your side to work from as opposed to working from his side? I'd think that he'd have to work from both sides, at least that's always been my experience. Also, where I'm at, we are supposed to split the costs, legally. If he's flipping the cost of materials and labor, seems to me like you're getting a pretty good deal.

Mark

Ray · Jan 16, 2016

ohio. You can't plant trees on a propery line. Have to be 4ft back,local township regulation.

jm. · Jan 16, 2016

Goose I don,t get it. Here would or is no problem with say me piling a stack of blocks or anything for that matter on my property as close to fence as I want. Do you have laws that make it say where you could not unload a load of fire wood by you fence? If it is you land what is the deal?

rview_ · Jan 16, 2016

Rules vary. Here, property lines, while facing it, right half is 100% mine, left is theirs. Living in a rural area, all barb wire. Don't care if they come on my property to fix theirs. If something knocks fence down, cows get out one way or the other, they wouldn't care if I did whatever I had to do to get it taken care of. I fix whatever I need to, mine or theirs, that's what neighbors do, they'd do the same. Also, no rules about sitting buildings or whatever a certain distance from the property line/fence. Wouldn't care how they use their side, none of my business, and I don't live in town, closest border fence in one direction is a half mile from my yard anyway.

daisyman · Jan 16, 2016

Seems to me that if all you fellers had adjoining fences with each other, the camaraderie you share on here would be severely tested......jest sayin'. Like a 93 year old friend of mine always
says, "It depends who's bull's gettin' gored!!

Greg1959 · Jan 16, 2016

37Chief- I'm just joking about what I'm going to post and I mean no malice. I know it was just a Typo but, it too funny to pass up.

"By having access through my palace, he can back right up to the opening I am making for him." WOW! You live in a 'palace'?. LOL! LOL!

Old bob. · Jan 16, 2016

Wish I had neighbors like that. Only had a couple that helped with cost in my farming career. Just easier to spend the money and fix the fence than have to be sorting my cattle from theirs.

Good neighbors can't be beat, bad neighbors should be beat. Lol.

Spudm · Jan 16, 2016

Sometimes things make no sense for whatever reason, then again it's no fun being on the "outs" with a neighbor either. Think about it.....

fixerupper · Jan 16, 2016

Telling you to move your stuff is a whole lot different than asking you to move your stuff.

37chief · Jan 16, 2016

Yea, we call it the high rent neighborhood. Stan

Blackhole49 · Jan 17, 2016

I'm with others, if you you were paying for 1/2 like you should, you would be moving your stuff anyway to help keep the cost down. So smile, move what ever needs to be moved and say thank you.

1948CaseVAI · Jan 17, 2016

Depending on the type of fence, sometimes it is just easier to have access to both sides. I don't think I have ever built or fixed a fence that I didn't go from one side to the other for something or other, even if it was to tamp posts on the other side..

J.Wondergem · Jan 17, 2016

(quoted from post at 16:18:18 01/16/16) If he is building and paying for a line fence you should be happy he doesn't ask you to pay for 1/2 of it.

Around here, that don't work any more. You can't force your neighbor to put up half, or pay for the fence, unless he wants to.

JMOR · Jan 17, 2016

(quoted from post at 15:03:38 01/17/16)

(quoted from post at 16:18:18 01/16/16) If he is building and paying for a line fence you should be happy he doesn't ask you to pay for 1/2 of it.

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Around here, that don't work any more. You can't force your neighbor to put up half, or pay for the fence, unless he wants to.

ask" was his key word!

JML755 · Jan 17, 2016

There was a POS stockade fence for about 150' that separated part of my property from a neighbor. They had put it up years ago to avoid looking at previous owner's junk. Another 450' of that fence line was regular field fence. When I bought the property and started cleaning it up, they took the stockade section down (was halfway down on its own). They said they were going to replace it with something. I'm in the process of fencing the entire perimeter of my property to keep outsiders out and my dogs in. So I told them that I would take care of it. They offered to help but they're on disability so I politely declined their offer. Put up the section, nice and tight, made sure it was straight and tops level so it'd look nice from their backyard. A couple of weeks later went out there and they had felled a large tree whose top branches caught the fence and mangled it pretty good, took a few posts down and stretched it all out. They were apologetic about it but all I could say "it's a fence, it can be fixed."

My point: don't ruin a good neighborly relationship over a fence.

ObsoElitist · Jan 18, 2016

Yup. I have a good neighbor and would offer to help build it.

Those legal statements are interesting. My lots are zoned commercial and I have a zero setback for building, I can put a wall on the property line if I want to.

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