Stevie-D
05-16-2005, 06:31 PM
i'll start out with a little background.
i live on 24 acres of land, which is rented. in the middle of the property, there is a field with a track in it. i've built a cabin in the field. we go riding and camping back there all the time. there is also a red shale quarry back there. the quarry divides the landlords land with the neighbors land. basically they both own half of it. the landlord is cool with us riding on the track and camping back there. basically we can do what we want as long as we don't cause trouble. we've been here for about 12 years now. now the neighbor lives about 400 yards away from us, over a hill and through some woods. a few years back, his daughter and her family put a trailer on his land.
heres where it gets fun.
there are a few trails in our woods, one of them buts up against a state forest. the land used to belong to a guy who died and left the land to the state. we rode in his field before he died, so the trail has been there before the state got ahold of it.
well lately some people have found the trail, and followed it onto our land. most of these people have ridden on our land years ago. so about 2 weeks ago my brother was back there riding. DCNR came walking onto our land accusing him of riding on the land. one of the guys took pictures of him on the quad, and they told him that he was warned. :huh
the people who used the trail now know not to use it. theyve have started to use the dirt path that goes back to the quarry to get to the land. our landlord has right of way to the road because he has a mining permit for the quarry. well suddenly the neighbors daughter doesn't want people on the trail. so she complains to daddy, who comes back while im riding on MY OWN LAND, and tells me that he doesn't want anyone else back here. he doesn't mind me back there he said, but noone else. thats right, he's trying to tell me that other people can't ride on my land. :huh
so today i find out that on saturday while i was at work there were a bunch of people back on my land riding on the track. they all have my and the landlords blessing to be back there. so they were sitting on the porch of my cabin, and my neighbor goes back there and tells them to leave. i don't know if they did or not.
so this morning my brother goes out turkey hunting while i'm at school. i was talking to him this afternoon, and he told me that someone strung some barbed wire across the trail on OUR PROPERTY. it was about 2 feet high. my brother moved it out of the way. thank god that he found it before anyone got hurt. now we believe that our neighbor did it. they know about the trail and don't want anyone back there on our land. what sucks is we are 99% sure that they are putting barbed wire up on OUR PROPERTY, but we cannot prove it.
called the landlord, and he said that both DCNR and the neighbor have no right to be back there. so now we are going to end up with a friggin war with the neighbors over this.
in an attempt to make peace with the neighbors, i am clearing out a trial on our land to get back to the track and cabin. i'm going to tell the people that ride back there to use it. hopefully that will help out.
i brushed off DCNR being back there, but now there is barbed wire strung up, im getting pissed. :grr:
sorry about the long post. i needed to vent a bit.
i live on 24 acres of land, which is rented. in the middle of the property, there is a field with a track in it. i've built a cabin in the field. we go riding and camping back there all the time. there is also a red shale quarry back there. the quarry divides the landlords land with the neighbors land. basically they both own half of it. the landlord is cool with us riding on the track and camping back there. basically we can do what we want as long as we don't cause trouble. we've been here for about 12 years now. now the neighbor lives about 400 yards away from us, over a hill and through some woods. a few years back, his daughter and her family put a trailer on his land.
heres where it gets fun.
there are a few trails in our woods, one of them buts up against a state forest. the land used to belong to a guy who died and left the land to the state. we rode in his field before he died, so the trail has been there before the state got ahold of it.
well lately some people have found the trail, and followed it onto our land. most of these people have ridden on our land years ago. so about 2 weeks ago my brother was back there riding. DCNR came walking onto our land accusing him of riding on the land. one of the guys took pictures of him on the quad, and they told him that he was warned. :huh
the people who used the trail now know not to use it. theyve have started to use the dirt path that goes back to the quarry to get to the land. our landlord has right of way to the road because he has a mining permit for the quarry. well suddenly the neighbors daughter doesn't want people on the trail. so she complains to daddy, who comes back while im riding on MY OWN LAND, and tells me that he doesn't want anyone else back here. he doesn't mind me back there he said, but noone else. thats right, he's trying to tell me that other people can't ride on my land. :huh
so today i find out that on saturday while i was at work there were a bunch of people back on my land riding on the track. they all have my and the landlords blessing to be back there. so they were sitting on the porch of my cabin, and my neighbor goes back there and tells them to leave. i don't know if they did or not.
so this morning my brother goes out turkey hunting while i'm at school. i was talking to him this afternoon, and he told me that someone strung some barbed wire across the trail on OUR PROPERTY. it was about 2 feet high. my brother moved it out of the way. thank god that he found it before anyone got hurt. now we believe that our neighbor did it. they know about the trail and don't want anyone back there on our land. what sucks is we are 99% sure that they are putting barbed wire up on OUR PROPERTY, but we cannot prove it.
called the landlord, and he said that both DCNR and the neighbor have no right to be back there. so now we are going to end up with a friggin war with the neighbors over this.
in an attempt to make peace with the neighbors, i am clearing out a trial on our land to get back to the track and cabin. i'm going to tell the people that ride back there to use it. hopefully that will help out.
i brushed off DCNR being back there, but now there is barbed wire strung up, im getting pissed. :grr:
sorry about the long post. i needed to vent a bit.