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Old 19-06-2008, 11:54 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
MICHELLE H. MICHELLE H. is offline
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Default Neighbor Fence Problem/Question?? LONG!!

We had another thunderstorm here last night, with more heavy rain, and
so it looks like that more Topsoil got washed away down towards the
wooded area in back of our home. So when I get the chance, I will go out
there with a tape measure to measure the actually length, width, and
depth of the trench that he dug out.

Also, someone asked how would his vegetable gardening would cause him to
lose soil?? I don't know what he did with all the soil from his garden,
but for some reason, our backyards are both level and at the same
height, until you get to behind his garage where his vegetable garden
area is, where he dug this trench and installed the fence. Our grass
backyard in this area, is like 3-4 feet ( rough estitmate ), higher up
than where his garden is.

Before this fence was installed, the property line WAS around this
height as well, and then it would slope down toward his garden where he
used to have a smaller 3' x 8' foot wooden picket fence, which was a few
feet FARTHER back from where this newer one is now. He got rid of that
fence, because the deer would come out at night, and just stick their
head and necks right over the 3' foot fence and eat his vegetable
plants.

So when he installed this newer 6' x 8' foot wooden stockade fence, he
put it CLOSER towards the property line so that he would have more space
for his garden, and he installed it about 4 inches back from the
property line. But because the property line, and right around the
property line on his side as well as our side was higher up than his
garden, he didn't want the grass and dirt to be touching the fence, so
he dug out all the grass and dirt right on the property line, leaving
this huge unsafe trench there.