Wish I could help. You seem to know better than I! One piece of advice I can give is to think long and hard before doing anything provocative with a neighbor, even if you are right.

"The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression." Proverbs 19:11

You might consider a neighborly visit first. Probably, his gripe was with the one who sold the land, more than you, who he has never met.

George
Tahlequah, OK

PS. Looks like a great piece of land! How many acres do you have?

you can clear brush by letting goats eat it . roots can be removed with a grub hoe and grub ax .

as far as the road goes, i know for a fact that in my part of the country you HAVE to allow the owner of any property teh road connects to have access to ALL parts of his property the road reachs. a hunting club we were in years ago was located about 9 miles off the public road. the logging trail we used to get there crossed another hunting club. they put up gates and even booby traps to stop us traveling it. a couple meetings between us, them, and the local law was all it took for them to understand that you CANNOT cut off access to someone's property.

at our office we own 3 lots. there is a right of way running down the side of the first 2 so that the 3rd lot can have street access. when we put a fence the city did not want to allow us to fence in the ROW, even though WE owned the rear lot. we finally got approval by stipulating that if we ever sold the rear lot we would remove the fence and honor the ROW.

this applies to you as well as him. have a talk with him, tell him either give you access thru his property or build his own road on the other side of the line. either way you win.