05-20-2009, 07:50 AM
Thanks for your comments Damon, and thanks for the agave recommendation Dirk, we will definitely look into it.
WRT all the fence haters out there, I would first like to point out that the neighbors are welcome to put up a fence on their side at any time, thus blocking their view of our fence, or even eliminating the need for us to keep our fence up. Second. please see my second post on page one:
"Yes, the fence is not very pretty, but it was a necessity. We hired two guys to put up an unobtrusive field fence. After the fourth day of attempting to put up the fence, only to have our efforts sabotaged and vandalized each evening, this fence was a last resort."
Here are links to a couple of photos of the original fence we tried to put up, and shows examples of how it was vandalized: http://web.me.com/awimages/iWeb/Site%203...SF6205.jpg
http://web.me.com/awimages/iWeb/Site%203...SF6210.jpg
KathyH, I do know that you are not attacking me. I appreciate that you have been in a similar situation and are just trying to show me the other side of things. I do feel we have plenty of witnesses and documentation wrt justifying the erection of the fence. I did want to clarify something.
You wrote,"I would conclude that it was a mistake to put up that fence. If you can't put up an attractive fence then no fence is the best for keeping things calm. Putting up something just so you can charge a person for trespassing is essentially buying into an adversarial position.
I've wanted to put up a fence on the lot we have in town, where the neighbors keep encroaching and parking on out lot, and I keep not doing it because I think the reaction would be negative, even with a nice looking fence. I would never put up an unattractive one."
Perhaps something I wrote led you to the conclusion that we put the fence up only to have the neighbor arrested for trespassing? If so, that was not my intention. The only reason for the fence is the safety of my family, especially my 5 year old son. The neighbor was crossing the property line and coming onto our side prior to putting the fence up, to our knowledge, that behavior has now stopped.
We did not have the privilege of putting up an "attractive" fence after our field fence efforts were thwarted. The expense for materials and labor of erecting a 350 foot field fence was already beyond our budget. We still have the materials for our original fence and someday, when we can safely work on it, and sure our efforts will not be in vain, we do plan to replace the current fence with it.
WRT all the fence haters out there, I would first like to point out that the neighbors are welcome to put up a fence on their side at any time, thus blocking their view of our fence, or even eliminating the need for us to keep our fence up. Second. please see my second post on page one:
"Yes, the fence is not very pretty, but it was a necessity. We hired two guys to put up an unobtrusive field fence. After the fourth day of attempting to put up the fence, only to have our efforts sabotaged and vandalized each evening, this fence was a last resort."
Here are links to a couple of photos of the original fence we tried to put up, and shows examples of how it was vandalized: http://web.me.com/awimages/iWeb/Site%203...SF6205.jpg
http://web.me.com/awimages/iWeb/Site%203...SF6210.jpg
KathyH, I do know that you are not attacking me. I appreciate that you have been in a similar situation and are just trying to show me the other side of things. I do feel we have plenty of witnesses and documentation wrt justifying the erection of the fence. I did want to clarify something.
You wrote,"I would conclude that it was a mistake to put up that fence. If you can't put up an attractive fence then no fence is the best for keeping things calm. Putting up something just so you can charge a person for trespassing is essentially buying into an adversarial position.
I've wanted to put up a fence on the lot we have in town, where the neighbors keep encroaching and parking on out lot, and I keep not doing it because I think the reaction would be negative, even with a nice looking fence. I would never put up an unattractive one."
Perhaps something I wrote led you to the conclusion that we put the fence up only to have the neighbor arrested for trespassing? If so, that was not my intention. The only reason for the fence is the safety of my family, especially my 5 year old son. The neighbor was crossing the property line and coming onto our side prior to putting the fence up, to our knowledge, that behavior has now stopped.
We did not have the privilege of putting up an "attractive" fence after our field fence efforts were thwarted. The expense for materials and labor of erecting a 350 foot field fence was already beyond our budget. We still have the materials for our original fence and someday, when we can safely work on it, and sure our efforts will not be in vain, we do plan to replace the current fence with it.