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muleman

muleman

Gone But Not Forgotten
Last Saturday night I got woke up twice by all my dogs going nuts toward the front yard. I got up and shined my spotlight on the feeder expecting to see a bear. Instead there were 2 draft horses eating corn and grazing on my alfalfa. I opened the window and hollered and they ran off. By sunup they were back and dogs woke the wife up also. I got dressed and went down to the Amish farm below me and told them their horses were out and running all over my place. He denied they were his horses but about an hour later his two young boys rode ponies up to chase them back home. Yesterday when I went for the mail the other neighbor had 6 horses in the pasture that borders my place. The corner of that fence has been on the ground for over 2 years and sure enough they wandered right on out. I had left him messages on his cell and house phone but he never bothered to even check them when he got home last night. I called him at sunup and told him they were in my front field. He made 2 trips up here but did get them back home. I am giving some serious thought to taking the deuce truck for a drive in my lower fields next Saturday night about 3 am and see how they like getting woke up all the time.:whistling:
 
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My other neighbors said they could hear me coming before I started up the road at the bottom of the hollow the night we got back from Virginia. I figure low range and a counter clockwise circle around the field would aim the stack right at both their places. Catch a couple gears up and down to let it roar at them. The old guy across the road won't have his hearing aids in so only his worthless punk son would wake up.:yum::yum:
 
You can treat them as dogs that come on your property. Shoot them or take ownership, your choice.
 
get a trailer, load them up and take them to a friends place. Maybe the dullard won't miss them, then you can sell them
 
The law in many places says that if you share a fence, you have to help ( by half) keep it up. If this is just on his land to the road then he is putting the animals in danger. Call the annimal control.

Taking posession won't make things nice with the neighbor nor will shooting the innocent equestrians. Hauling them off can get you arrested. (used to get you hung)

I say call the authorities and then string a flagged wire over the open fence.


franc
 
I offered to take my backhoe and put the corner post down correctly and tension it while he put braces on the post. That was 2 years ago when it was just leaning from having too much tension on the barbed wire. It has since popped the post out of the ground. Was not an issue before as they never used that pasture. They don't ever check their fences or grain their critters regularly. As far as animal control that is a joke. If I filed a complaint they might send someone out this month. Took over a week for them to come get a stray dog from my other neighbor's place. He had to call 4 times.:hammer:
 
muleman said:
I offered to take my backhoe and put the corner post down correctly and tension it while he put braces on the post. That was 2 years ago when it was just leaning from having too much tension on the barbed wire. It has since popped the post out of the ground. Was not an issue before as they never used that pasture. They don't ever check their fences or grain their critters regularly. As far as animal control that is a joke. If I filed a complaint they might send someone out this month. Took over a week for them to come get a stray dog from my other neighbor's place. He had to call 4 times.:hammer:
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Lazy Amish? Now that's a funny oxymoron like military intelligence. :yum:
 
FrancSevin said:
The law in many places says that if you share a fence, you have to help ( by half) keep it up. If this is just on his land to the road then he is putting the animals in danger. Call the annimal control.

Taking posession won't make things nice with the neighbor nor will shooting the innocent equestrians. Hauling them off can get you arrested. (used to get you hung)

I say call the authorities and then string a flagged wire over the open fence.


franc
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the old man already said the horses weren't his:whistling:
 
SShepherd said:
the old man already said the horses weren't his:whistling:
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"Yesterday when I went for the mail the other neighbor had 6 horses in the pasture that borders my place. The corner of that fence has been on the ground for over 2 years and sure enough they wandered right on out. I had left him messages on his cell and house phone but he never bothered to even check them when he got home last night. I called him at sunup and told him they were in my front field."

I know I am a little dense but what exactly did I miss here? Broken fence is "shared." Ownership of the horses is irrelavent. His neighbor came and got 'em, is keeping them, and letting them wander.

And telling muleman to pound sand.

So what did I get wrong here?

In town we argue, even sue, over a fence being one inch over the line. I moved to the country to get away from such sillyness. Out there you just take care of your stuff and to a certain degree that of your neighbor. Keeping fences up so the critters don't roam seems a fair bit of cooperation to expect from you and your neighbor. Seems to work well except when city folks bring their self centered value systems out to the country.

I don't think muleman is like that but annoyed that his neighbor is.

Tell me where I'm going wrong here.:unsure:
 
Draft horses? Is either of them a mare? If so, buy a donkey. After all, it is your screen name. 'Bout the time their progeny reach a year old they'll protest at sunrise, sunset and various times through out the day that their breed was never on the ark with the other animals. Pasture them as near his house as possible. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Personal favor request: If the mare throws a Jenny name her Gracie. We can despise her equally.
 
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