City or County... Where do you Tractor?

[WranglerX]

County... My 5 acres of solitude, other than gophers, and influx of mice this year....

Dale

 

[JethroB]

County on 100 acres.

I recall only 2 people having riding mowers on that block growing up. My folks got the 3rd one after I moved out. Why have a rider when you have a child to push a mower?

Sounds very familiar Moss. I was the youngest of four kids. My parents bought their first riding Snapper mower a couple of weeks after I went off to college. My dad just grinned when I first saw it.

 

[ericm979]

City limits encroached on my moms' place in the country. It was quiet when she moved there. She passed away and the land is now covered with condos. I took my wife on a tour of the town once. "that subdivision is where I used to ride my bicycle off road. That one over there is where we rode our horses. That one is where our barn and pasture was". After a while it got too depressing.

Where we are now is much too far away for city limits to reach us. The minimum lot size for subdividing is 20 acres.

 

[two_bit_score]

City limits encroached on my moms' place in the country.
Where we are now is much too far away for city limits to reach us. The minimum lot size for subdividing is 20 acres.

Famous last words? I hope it takes a long time to reach you but you speak from experience that it may not be. We all hope. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

County on 100 acres.



Sounds very familiar Moss. I was the youngest of four kids. My parents bought their first riding Snapper mower a couple of weeks after I went off to college. My dad just grinned when I first saw it.

Yeah! I left, they bought a riding mower with leaf sweeper, snow blower and plow blade, a walk-behind snow blower, a snow plow for their land cruiser, a leaf blower..... man!!!!

:laughing:

 

[ultrarunner]

Famous last words? I hope it takes a long time to reach you but you speak from experience that it may not be. We all hope. :thumbsup:

Santa Cruz mountains can be very remote... friends live off-grid 7 miles from paved road...

Totally isolated but the rural telephone act got them dail tone in 1970

 

[Silverss427]

El Paso county CO

 

[mapper]

5.5 acres in the county, couple of small towns 4 miles in several directions.
My sisters and I grew up on about 8 acres of forested mountainside near Bellingham. Only one lives in a city, my little sister is on 5 acres of the Kitsap peninsula, and my oldest sister is a farmer on about 250 acres of the Skagit valley.

 

[cqaigy2]

County about 45 minutes to town. I rarely see or hear my neighbors. Though i did heard one shooting metal target a few days ago. A soft clang clang in the distance, he's a good shot, actually he's pretty good at whatever he does.

 

[Streetcar]

City of Cincinnati on school campus, early tractoring was in the country

 

[Semper Paratus]

26 acres in the county..

 

[tmcj]

What is this "county" vs city anyway? Do you mean country? Never heard of rural living referred to as county before.

 

[ultrarunner]

Might not be universal but we have Charter and Incorporated Cities which are carved out of counties... Cities come with another layer of laws and regs on top counties.

County may have Sheriff Departments and city Police Departments.

Of course some cities grow so big they encompass the entire county... case in point City and County of San Francisco.

The reason asked is curiosity because when I read posts clearing land, timber, farming... it is hard to relate when I need a formal permit with public hearing over 6 weeks to remove a single planted Walnut Tree or having LEO called because I am Brush Hogging the back 20...

 

[MossRoad]

County about 45 minutes to town. I rarely see or hear my neighbors. Though i did heard one shooting metal target a few days ago. A soft clang clang in the distance, he's a good shot, actually he's pretty good at whatever he does.

We hear shooting often.
- West of us is a private shooting range and a skeet club.
- East of us is South Bend, IN.

 

[MossRoad]

City of Cincinnati on school campus, early tractoring was in the country

I have relatives in St. Bernard, Elmwood, Sayler Park, and up in Sharonville. I've always liked that town. I'd like to see Red's game again. :thumbsup:

 

[lman]

25 acres in the county. 10 miles from town. Around here "county" refers to anything outside of the city's jurisdiction.

 

[tractorgp]

City in an area that was once the outskirts.

 

[Tinhack]

County on a state route about 3.5 miles outside of a town of about 3500 people. A lot of "ranchettes" and home acreage parcels popping up all around. I still maintain a shooting range but haven't used it since my operations two years ago. We have garbage service but burn our paper, wood and brush trash. We just went under a burn-ban a few weeks ago due to the dry conditions. Burning in a barrel is still allowed. I like it out here but I need to get some work done on the 1/4-mile dirt "driveway". :ashamed:

 

[ultrarunner]

It can get interesting when rural county and city meet.

Brothers place is just outside city line and new multi million dollar homes have gone in the last two years and those paying big money for upscale city homes on city lots don't care to have a tractor tilling the soil or burns... etc., with hunting being the worst.

 

[servmgr64]

Both. We have 1.5 acres in town & 60 miles away is the farm of 40 acres.