trouble with county taking apart appliances in my yard

That sucks. Hope you get left alone, but now that you're on the radar as a potential source of revenue (fines), they make stay on you. Shame people can't mind their own business.

I think I know one of my neighbors who turned me in, she is a rich widow who thinks the neighborhood should be like an association with CC&R's she used to give me compliments, but than and always than she told me what she did not like about my property. I got fed up with her and told her to stop talking to me. She threated to turn me into the county for other stuff and I responded that I would turn her in for all of the unpermitted work she has done on her properties. She did a driveway with a block wall that because of the height requires a permit, as well as extensive remodeling on her home, I did not turn her in she did turn me in. I have also done unpermitted work on my property including a block wall. To be honest I do what I want and want to be left alone. I am not rich I am a vet on a disability pension I get by.