Neighbors can be your best friends and a gold mine

Taylortractornut · Feb 27, 2005

I agree on the good neighbors. we have some of the best around. One owns a hobby green house and he starts my seeds, In return I do a little backhoe work and haul some composts tree bark from the log yard for him. the other is an old timer with 50 acres some in trees and hills. He lets me hunt and plant a few gardens out there. the other is a Fork lift mechanic. He finds me all the cheap lifts at the factories I can haul home and old 3 phase motors for the shop.
One of the neighbors is a fine carpenter and a long time family friend that just built a new house. We trade out work as well.
My favorite part of the week here when Dad owned his roll off truck company was when we would bring in a dumpster from a job and it have the ladder up the side. Id set it off and climb over bal in and dumpster dive for metal lol I seemed to know which ones it was. For 4 years we never bought a stick of metal for the shop.

Birdhunter1 · Feb 28, 2005

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Harvest time for a farmer may be 24 hours a day. He only has a short window time wise to get the crop in.

Egon )

I must have worded that wrong, I was the one in the combine at 3 am and they were the ones that didn't like it. I would never get ticked about a farmer who HAS to get his crop in like that. We didn't want to be out there at that time either, but we had to. Acutally that was back in October, if we hadn't done it that night till 4 am we still would not have been able to get in that field since. It started to rain right as we finished that night, then rained all the next week, and it has never been dry enough since to get in that field with a combine. Though the ground has been frozen a few times since, but the crop would have been lost by then.

turnkey4099 · Mar 2, 2005

( ( ( like running a combine at 3 am.
)

Harvest time for a farmer may be 24 hours a day. He only has a short window time wise to get the crop in.

Egon )

I must have worded that wrong, I was the one in the combine at 3 am and they were the ones that didn't like it. I would never get ticked about a farmer who HAS to get his crop in like that. We didn't want to be out there at that time either, but we had to. Acutally that was back in October, if we hadn't done it that night till 4 am we still would not have been able to get in that field since. It started to rain right as we finished that night, then rained all the next week, and it has never been dry enough since to get in that field with a combine. Though the ground has been frozen a few times since, but the crop would have been lost by then. )

Ah! That explains it. I was shaking my head and couldn't figure out why a regular poster here was complaining about farm work.

Harry K

Birdhunter1 · Mar 3, 2005

( Ah! That explains it. I was shaking my head and couldn't figure out why a regular poster here was complaining about farm work.

Harry K )

Could I be banned for complaining like that about regular farming practices? One thing for sure, if I did there goes any and all credibilty I may have gained from my fellow TBN'ers. Which probably isn't much anyway.

Back to the original issue, my neighbor just found me a set of trailer tires, cheap that are near new.

Currmudgeon · Mar 3, 2005

( Could I be banned for complaining like that about regular farming practices? )

I think it's in the TOS. If you can't get along with farmers, you're outta here. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I agree with the benefits of good neighbors. Money is expensive, so helping each other is the way neighbors make up for that.