Help..Neighbor trying to get rid of my tractor!!!

Frankly I'd be inclined to tell them to tamp sand until someone with a judge's order or ordinance told me to move it.

Probably the easiest way to deal with your new neighbor is too find our just what muff's him the most, like ugly buildings, farm animals, tractor sheads, old tracotrs on wheels that can be easyly moved, etc;

Most countys have a universal building code to work with and enforce. In that code has two very helpful codes to your cause:

1) They define temporary building as one that is screwed together, not nailed and on a skid foundadtion not concrete.

2) If such structure doesn't follow the UBC then the owner has 6mths to remove the vilolation before any fines can be levied.

Man just build what ever ticks him off and then set it as close to his property line right out in front and make it appear HE owns this junk, not you.

If you have a wide roadway in front of his property, pull your newly built trailer with your junker pick-up right in front of his place for a couple days. Once your caught with it remove it to another storage area for a couple months then bring it back for another visit where once again it breaks down right in front of his house.

Pretty soon your neighbor will be over knocking on your door to call a truce.

T_Bone

If it starts going to court, first, make sure the legal part is airtight- Nothing can make you get rid of it. Then let him try to sue you. I not sure if it's different in the US, but up here in Canada, you have to get a lawyer, serve the guy papers, and get a judge to hear the case. That all costs money, AT LEAST a minimum of 10,000 dollars to get into court. The sheer cost is somtimes enougth to cause someone to back off.

I would also suggest you tell your side of the story to the other nighebors. Often times, gossip and twisted stories can turn others against you, and chances are the nighbor in question does not like you enougth to tattle on about your habits in a negative way.

Put your chicken coop and yard where it blocks their view of your tractor. Or, put up a $200 shelter awning to cover it. The mower deck is also a great idea.

I live in a sub-divided farm that was cut into 20 acre sections (still "ag" zoned). The neighbors to our west are the only folks on the whole road that don't shoot or hunt. This has become our friction point. The first time after we moved in that I went into the woods to shoot (with a .54 caliber flintlock) the woman came over and asked my wife "how long does he keep this up"? Bless her heart, my wife said "all the 30 years I've known him." (She hunts, also).

Well, I'll never get used to that!" (Jumping theatrically each time there was a "boom").

So what do these people choose to have as pets? There free-range cats and two pit bulls in an "invisible fence". Now, whenever their dogs take on to barking (which is whenever a bird flies or caterpillar crawls) I say "I'll never get used to that". Our dog is a Kerry Blue Terrier and seldom barks. I once caught him pooping beside their deck, and was laughing so hard I never got around to yelling at him (smart enough to know they were locked inside . . . the little stinker).

I've got a chicken wire fence up well within my lines, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to put up a goat fence on the property just to keep Jake in and to avoid any problems on the occasions the bantams jump the run fence (which is frequently). We do try to keep the peace, but I will not be denied WHY I moved out to the "boonies" in the first place.

It's time to park that old A John right up in the front yard as close as possible to the neighbor's mailbox.

If that doesn't work, buy an old manure spreader to hook on behind it.

Then, if there is still a problem, load the spreader. :>)

Allan

The original problem isn't the tractor, it's the neighbor. Handle it.

Allan

I still say it would be easier to go over there and tie his ears back behind his head in a slip knot.

You know, just tight enough to get his attention. :>)

Allan

Rules 1. Guns 2. ATV
3. Barns
4. Fences
5. Trees
6. Water
7. Kids
8. Dog 9. Horses
10.Snow removal

If "tractors" are such an annoyance, then he can go before the local county zoning commission and get the law changed to prohibit them for everyone...not just you.

Good Luck

We destroyed a 500 acre farm in NJ for K Hovnanian, Phase-I was 250 houses, one field was a 100 acres, of flat fertile soil, nice dark top etc. each home was 20 feet to the property line, 40 fee between them. You can have a basement if you buy before built, or you just get a slab. Absolutley no trees, all flat, it looked ridiculous. The site work was unreal to put this place it, absolutely unbelievable, the forman had us excavate giant borrow pits to get sand, guess where all the nice top soil went, right in the hole.

In a place like that, someone is going to get offended if you sneeze let alone pursue a hobby that involves equipment or similar. What you do in your driveway and or backyard is no one elses concern if it's within the law. I say look into all the paperwork available from your municipality like codes for, zoning, planning board, local legislation, get copies of all this and read up, might be posted on your municipality's website, see if there is anything stated, if not, I don't think your neighbor has a case, but he's going to be a continued nuisance, count on it. Does make you want to slap the stupidity out of him don't it ? LOL !!!!

Protective covenants, yes they were handing those out when the indians were the native inhabitants here, I'm sure the explorers were handed those when they bumped into plymouth rock, I'm sure a few of those were knocked loose, and fell directly into their hands, oh look Chris, no ships named Nina or Santa Maria allowed ! LOL Oh well, guess you get my take on these places.

Devin

Devin

Big Mike is right about these homeowner groups; too many people that don't know "skit from Sinola" with too much time on their hands.

There is nothing to go to court over.

You might have to offer to set this guy down on the backside of those silly short pants that he wears.

Your property is none of his concern. He needs to understand this concept.

Allan

But, when people live in a pile, seems like ya always end up with someone else's heel in yer eye. :>)

Allan

This cold snap kind of moved on east, I guess. It sure took a toll on the alfalfa tho. Just looks a little "smoke-colored" out there. So, I'll probably wait til the end of the week before I drop it.

First, I'm gonna help the neighbor screw 300 acres of wheat in the ground as he got caught in the wet and hasn't got a kernal planted yet.

Maybe I can pull the rod ahead of him so he can get started.

Allan