Some people should stay in town!

[Bob_Skurka]

<font color="red"> when you buy a house that adjoins farming property.. you get a "Right to Farm" pamplet.. this lets the new owners know that farming will causes noise, dust, odors.
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That is an interesting concept, I doubt that Indiana would ever do something like that but I like the idea. I am a city boy who moved out and made the choice to adapt to the surroundings rather than fight them. The back couple acres of my property is farmed along with a larger field that is common property in my neighborhood. I am one of those who welcomes the farmer, but we have some in our area that just don't get it. One family was actually afraid of the fact that people in the country have guns. . . they finally moved due to a job transfer. And the complaints about dust during the soybean harvests every other year were common from them, despite the fact that their property didn't even abutt any of the property being farmed! Honestly I just don't get it. Why do people move out to the country and then try to bring the city with them? Or for those who have been out there and not accepted that farming = food, why don't they move to the city!?!

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

I'm also a city boy who saw the light. Like RobS, I'd be offering to help, especially if I say you out working all night.

I subscribe to the philosophy that I bought out here because I like it. Why should I want to change it? As to my neighbors, they were here long before I knew the roads to get here. I'm the new guy and try to act accordingly. Even if I'm looking to do something on my land near the property line I'll ask them what they think. I think it's just part of being a good neighbor.

 

[Boondox]

We had a bitter, nasty divorced woman build a granite mansion down the road from us. Fabulously wealthy. For some reason she felt she owned the entire hill, including our 155 acres. She complained about the noise of our chainsaw, the sound of occasional gunfire, the smoke from our annual burnpile, the barking of our dogs (even though the barking was coming from someplace way down in the valley and NOT our dogs), and the fact that I use the tractor to clear the drainage ditches of silt now and then. When I pointed out that we lost the road in the rains if the ditches silted up, she replied "The woes of the peasant are no concern of mine!"

I shared some words with her about that, to which she replied, "I spend the summer in Mexico where the peasants know how to behave!"

Funny thing is, she has four adult children who are the most polite, well-adjusted people you'd ever care to meet! One told me the divorce changed her. Must have been a doozy!

Anyway, the woman was a firm believer in Feng Sui (sp?). Some friends of ours told us that the ultimate bad omen in Feng Sui was the cannon. Apparently there is no defense against a cannon. So we mounted a tiny toy cannon on top of our mailbox at the bottom of the hill where she had to drive past it every day. Just as a joke. A week later she was dead! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I know it's just a coincidence, but jeez! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Pete

 

[SkyPup]

LOL, we have the same problem here.

Go out dove, snipe, and duck hunting on our property using my handloaded shells and some neighbor calls the sheriffs office as there is a "terrorist" nearby in the swamps practicing on poor avian species..... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Fortunately for me, the sheriff deputy that arrives knows me since I am best friends with the chief circuit judge in our district and am hunting on my own property, much to the chagrin of the urban transplanted far away neighbor.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

So we just keep on having fun hunting with our Springer Spaniels, and they keep on wondering why people hunt for food.... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[beenthere]

Sorry to hear about the problem neighbor.

When property next to mine came up for sale (I bought part of it, and should have bought it all!), I would purposely go out and act like I was squirrel hunting whenever I saw the real estate agent out with potential buyers. Cost me a few extra shotgun shells, but I figured the ones who buy would be the ones that didn't mind them being discharged. Turns out, that is true. I felt foolish doing it, and even a bit childish, and I don't know if it had any effect on anyone. But - the neighbors are great. They moved to the country because they liked it, not to try to change it after they moved here.

The ones that really bother me are the ones who bring their "street lights" with them, and burn a night light all night long. For what, I don't know other than to say "see me, here I am right here by this light". I like the night without the night lights. For security, they can put in the motion lights or have a switch in the house to turn on to see what is out there. Why light the path for the 'burglar'? Make him set off the motion light and then become worried he will be detected. Hmm? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Varmintmist]

Quit being nice to her, it wont do any good, and it will just drive you nuts.

My family has had run ins with these idiots forever. They are like zits on your butt, they always stick their heads up when you are not expecting them. Just smile and wave when you are spreading the poop this spring.

We bought a horse one time, it was a pity buy. While looking for a second pasture potato, we found a golden palamino gelding that was in a "pasture" that also had 3 stud ponies. They were being fed lettuce leaves and junk. Needless to say it was a poor boney thing. Bought the horse for 300.00 and they threw in a 150.00 saddle. Got it home, introduced it to food, it didnt know what corn was. In about a week we had animal control called on us.

I had a lady roar up in her car screaming at me that my dog bred her high dollar poochie, and I owed her for the litter. After being berated for about 5 min. I asked her if it was this dog? She said yes. The black and white one? She said yes. I told her that we were going to be rich. She looked at me with a blank stare. I then told her that the black and white English Shepard was............. female, and the book rights on this female breeding her female would make us rich. She never stopped by again.

Doing some land clearing at our garage for more room to put our trailers, one neighbor stomped over and declared that he was going to call DEP because we were destroying "wetlands". It was woods and there was a swamp nearby, not what was being cleared. Would you run a single axel dump truck with a grader on a trailer over a swamp??? Anyway, This guy started ripping into my father, so my father said ok, call them. When they get here I think I'll ask where that septic run off is coming from there in the swamp. Funny, never heard anything else.

I was waiting for someone to call about my shooting. I shoot some local competition so in the summer I shoot quite a bit. Not enough, but quite a bit. In PA, as long as you are 300 feet from a dwelling, and have a backstop that will stop the bullets, you are good to go. My backstop wont stop a tank round, but the hill behind it will. My range is more than 300 feet from my property line on any side. I dont think I will get the visit from the state police though, every boardering neighbor except one, has asked permission to hunt on my ground, and now that rifle deer season is getting close, there is a lot of gunfire. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[ByronBob]

Does anyone feel sorry for the husband? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
I'd hunt too if I was him. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
The best thing you can do is let it roll off your shoulder the best you can. When she calls again just tell her your making a living and doing the things you need to do. And if she thinks you have the time or energy to do it to her on purpose then she's giving herself way too much credit.

 

[bczoom]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( In PA, as long as you are 300 feet from a dwelling, and have a backstop that will stop the bullets, you are good to go.)</font>

I never new that (300 ft) /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Don't think it's enforced much (at least around me). We were standing next to the neighbors house unloading several hundred rounds out of our AR-15's when the local law enforcement drove by. He got out, stood at the road about 50' away looking at us. When he got both of our attention, he pointed at them, gave us a thumbs-up, looked down at his 9mm, shrugged, waved bye, got in his car and left.

Anyway... back to the original point, I'd be cordial (wave while you're doing whatever it is that annoys her) but wouldn't change anything. If you're not breaking any laws, you're fine to do whatever.
I would look into getting a "noise" permit or other things that can lean to your favor. I've heard of people recording peoples dogs barking and if it's persistent for more than 10 minutes, the owners can be cited.

 

[slowzuki]

Oh the city lights! We used to drive 30 km (20 miles) before we saw any of them. There are now 8 within 1 km. Can hardly see the friggin stars. The only time houses ever get broken into here is during the day when no one is home!

 

[SkyPup]

If our dogs bark for more than two minutes, I go out and kill whatever it was that they were barking at....works great for us, no excessive noise citations yet, although it does tend to upset the geese a little, and they are much louder than the canines......! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif