Well crap

Had trees cleared/thinned on the site for the new farm and got on the neighbors property when we were cutting trees. The whole thing was error on a couple folks part but it's my fault because I said go. When the surveyor was there he didn't mark the property line, just the two corners. Said he would come back and mark the line. While the loggers were there, they were getting close to done on one side and I asked the forester if he thought we could mark the line because it appears to be a due east, west line and there's no bearing on the survey so we assumed it was straight east. He said "I'll see what I can find. We do that a lot". Turns out it's ALMOST due east. It's a line that's about 1800 feet long and the last 200 or so feet of the foresters line crossed into the neighbors property. The neighbor is a timber company that we bought our land from. We didn't know they crossed the line until last week when the surveyor came back. Well, I called the forester and the rep from the timber company and we walked it and I showed them everything. Turns out we too about 25 trees from their side. I was hopeful that being honest and it being a small mistake, we would get by. But I was wrong. $976 is what they figure we owe in timber and time. The forester has insisted that he pay half because he marked it wrong. I was going to pay the whole thing because I said go without waiting on the surveyor. Either way it just sucks

Yeah he's a really good fella. He wanted to pay the whole thing but I told him I was going to because I said "go". Just an expensive lesson to learn but one I'll remember.

At least were honest with them, many loggers in Central MO will cross fences for quality trees and ignore any later calls or insults.

You came out good on that one, everything brought out into the open and no hard feelings, and it seems that everyone has more respect for each other now. Some lessons can be more expensive that others. I would have thought it would be a lot more expensive for 25 trees. Were they pulpwood, chip and saw, or timber size?

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: You came out good on that one, everything brought out into the open and no hard feelings, and it seems that everyone has more respect for each other now. Some lessons can be more expensive that others. I would have thought it would be a lot more expensive for 25 trees. Were they pulpwood, chip and saw, or timber size?

20 pine saw logs, 3 pine pulp, 2 hardwood pulp