Neighbors junk pile is growing

debodun

debodun

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way upstate in New York, USA
Looks twice as big as when I posted about this last year. Now there's a toilet. When the mayor came to my yard sale, I pointed the pile out. Mayor's answer: "If it isn't wet garbage, he's not breaking any laws." I though having discarded car tires was illegal.

Mayor probably doesn't want to step on any toes because the neighbor is a prominent local businessman.

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i have wonderful neighbors. They are the sweetest people.
But, they too have a yard full of crap! It's not attractive.
After living in Alaska, my mindset is that my eyesight does not go beyond my fence line.
i am responsible for my own yard and my own possessions. I try to keep my own surroundings in order, but
what my neighbors do is their own business.
 

debodun said:
Discarded tires can fill with rainwater and attract disease carrying mosquitoes.
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I have no mosquitos. I have no rodents, nor any insects. They have all disappeared since last Summer.
(something in the air)
but,
I think if one has a problem with a neighbor, he should talk to the neighbor and try to reach an agreement.
Telling us serves no purpose.
 
debodun said:
Looks twice as big as when I posted about this last year. Now there's a toilet. When the mayor came to my yard sale, I pointed the pile out. Mayor's answer: "If it isn't wet garbage, he's not breaking any laws." I though having discarded car tires was illegal.

Mayor probably doesn't want to step on any toes because the neighbor is a prominent local businessman.

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""If it isn't wet garbage, he's not breaking any laws.""

Go over there and pee in the toilet.
 
debodun said:
Discarded tires can fill with rainwater and attract disease carrying mosquitoes.

A cousin works for this guy and says he's a real tightwad. I surmise, then, that he's too cheap to pay for proper disposal and lets it accumulate. You'd think he could call a scrapper and get paid for that junk.
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Maybe he'd let you put up a sign - Free Recyclables, or something.
Or could you hang a sign on your side of the fence? Does the place get much traffic?
 
debodun said:
Looks twice as big as when I posted about this last year. Now there's a toilet. When the mayor came to my yard sale, I pointed the pile out. Mayor's answer: "If it isn't wet garbage, he's not breaking any laws." I though having discarded car tires was illegal.

Mayor probably doesn't want to step on any toes because the neighbor is a prominent local businessman.

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Good fences make good neighbours, hopefully yours is nice and tall.

If not, plant a row of Emerald Green Arborvitae.
 
Quite a lot of junk there. Hopefully when & if you find another place to live that junk won't affect the selling price of your home.
 
We have one down the street. Has several old boats that have never moved in the 6 years we have lived here. We could have moved to a neighborhood with an HOA, but didn't, so it is kind of our fault too. I still would rather live here than have an HOA. A brand new expensive, custom house was just built on a vacant lot across the street from this "dump". Didn't seem to matter.
 
"You can't learn to love it I suppose", (no, silly of me!).

I once had an old neighbour whose back garden appeared to be a tip, but when we moved in it was hidden behind a high hedge. He'd allowed the hedge to grow so high because he didn't like the previous owners of the house we'd purchased but when we moved in he seemed to take a shine to us, hence started clipping down his hedge somewhat. We asked him whether he'd mind leaving the hedge quite high, but the old boy simply cut it to the height he wanted when we were out, so we got the view of his junk we'd have preferred to avoid.
However he was an amusing neighbour, and as a former fireman he had some long ladders he once lent to me in order to reach up to paint my gable end. Here was another funny thing, when he delivered the ladder he was about ninety at the time, he climbed half way up it, and started shaking it about, "I like a ladder with a bit of whip in it" he said, and being once a fireman I guess he knew what he was talking about :) !
The passage of time took care of the junkyard behind his house, as when he passed away the new owners smartened it all up, but we lost our very friendly "rough diamond" to talk to of course, into the bargain.
 
I had to read about your junk pile because every time I saw your title, @debodun I saw in my mind’s eye my uncle’s junk pile. His was in Texas and wherever he worked he picked up old metal. He started doing this this when I was a kid.We would visit him every two or three years, each visit
the pile of iron and steel grew. It grew higher than his home. He had acreage but was not fenced in. It was always there between two great big old mesquite trees. Back in those days
the price for quality scrape metal was something not to be sneezed at. China bought most
of our scrap iron back then. Some time in the mid sixties he sold the pile. I don’t why unless it was because he was getting up in years. I took weeks to truck it off.It was worth some
some 40K. Was it worth it all those years? He always worked with trucks and I think he enjoyed
it. It was part of who he was.
 
We had a neighbor who brought in truck loads of scrap wood from construction sites to heat her home. Finally, somebody called both the Fire Marshal and the County Health Department. Both ordered her to clean it up as it was a fire hazard and a source of diseased pests.
 
Gaer said:
What are those Marg? Are they non-see-through fast growing plants? Can you show us a picture?
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Emerald Green Arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis, scientific name), are of the cedar family and are upright conifers. Fairly fast growing, they make for excellent accent trees, particularly when planted in 2's and 3's, and when spaced accordingly, make for excellent privacy hedges.

Here is a picture where Emerald Green Arborvitae have been used to border and accent a garden entrance.

Emerald Green Arborvitae offer the same ornamental appeal as Italian Cypress (extreme bottom images, last two), only not as thin and pencil-like, and not restricted to the warmer gardening zones as Italian Cypress requires.

The beauty of Emerald Green Arborvitae is that they can be sheared and shaped, much more so than shown in their somewhat natural growth pattern shape as seen in image one.

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Here is a hedge that has been accomplished using Emerald Green Arborvitae.

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Italian Cypress

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