It's been a bit since last post.

A few things have transpired. 

Upon renting a skid steer and going to town with it, the next door neighbor on the west side came over.  He talked with James first - who was out helping me, he was doing the chainsaw and cuttin down all the junk I had uprooted, needed to be done to fit into a smaller fire - of which I intend on doing soon.  

This man went straight into property lines.  Not in a bad way, at least I didn't take it that way, but he definitively informed me that the barbed wire fence running between our properties? That is not the property line. He had a general good tone about him. He went to his house, found the copy of the platt and came back with it.  They had to have his property surveyed in 2009 - but for whatever reason, the surveyor did several properties in each direction. 

I thought about it and said, yes, there was a barbed wire fence post over - there - so we went and took a look. I had accidentally broken it off at the base, I was wondering what that thing was there for?  But upon closer look, there was a piece of rebar sticking out of the ground with a yellow cap that says surveyors cap or something on it.  Now, if this is where these current surveyors had intended on showing the property line, they didn't show it on their version of a plat. Their drawing showed the property corner at the end of the barbed wire fence! 

This neighbor went further to say he was a surveyor for 18 years.  I lost 14 feet at the front of the property and going back to the rear, over to 20 feet.  I had no idea and apologized for cutting down trees on his property - tho I had only taken down stuff along the power lines, trees that were growing up into the lines and had gone past them a couple of feet.  He said no problem, same sentiment, the power lines.  At some point - and soon - someone would have had to come out there and at least cut the tops off of those trees, but the sensible thing would be to cut them down since it would be a recurring problem if the trees lived through it. 

He then informed me that the property line on the other side was not along the fence line either.  I'm thinking, losing even more property I thought I had! Nope, he showed me the plat.  It showed the fence line and then it showed the property corner 33 feet the other direction!  We could not, however, find the marker for that one.  I went back there yesterday trying to find it, even measured it back from the fence line, still couldn't find it, tho if it's rebar and only barely sticking out of the ground, it could be right there and not ever see it without digging into the ground.  

Whatever the case, these current surveyors screwed that one up. They put ribbon around the fence line at that corner marking it as the corner and from the old plat, that is definitely wrong.  These surveyors didn't bother to mark 5 of the property corners, it is interesting that they marked 3 and not the rest. 

Why?  I intend on calling the surveyor from the 2009 survey and see if I can get him to come out and not only find the corner stake for the one 33 feet from the corner, but also mark it all the way to the front - street - of the property so I know what's mine.  If this is really true, then I am going to call out these other surveyors.  They made almost 2 grand and it's obvious they spent very little time doing it.  They also didn't site anything, they just found markers and restated those were the property lines.  They made their money but they didn't do their job....

It's not going to fundamentally change everything on the neighbor's side. I'm giving it 20 feet from the fence all the way down to ensure I'm not encroaching on his property.  

Progress  has been slow.  The chainsaw isn't working right and these "things" that are growing everywhere are ridiculous.  They have a thin trunk to them - stem-  whatever you want to call it, but their roots are up to 5 inches thick!  Getting the root system out of the ground is extremely tedious work and takes up too much time.  Yet I need the whole thing out of there, it's pretty obvious they will just regrow if you don't get it all out and even if not, I can't have these stumps sticking out of the ground. Some of them I just couldn't get to come out, so we cut them down as close to the ground as possible.  I figured I could just build fires over all the stumps that are left and burn them out.  Not like there isn't enough wood to do it with.  

Well that's all I can get in for today.  I'm in Brownsville, time to go to sleep.  No detention - won't be any time soon as far as it looks. There was only 1 empty - in the normal yard where I dropped the loaded trailer.  And then?  I get a text from the dispatcher: "Just wanted to make sure you know that the loaded trailer is going to the new yard".  Yea, no, I didn't, I replied and informed her I had already left the yard with an empty.  She got pissy with me, so I got pissy with her straight back.  You