So you want to irritate your neighbors

[D2Cat]

 

[OntheRidge]

I need one of those.

 

[NCL4701]

Situation: I have a pair of $&@* developers putting in 700 houses around our little 70 acres. I’m in the county and they can’t annex me because I’m a farm so NO noise ordinance between 5am and 11pm.

Question: Can I get something similar in more of a 30 to 40 HP size?

If yes and I could cobble up a PTO connection that might replace the grapple as my favorite tractor attachment.

 

[Fordtech86]

because I’m a farm

so you can have farm animals right?

get a rather large flock of guineas

Provides excellent pest control, eggs, meat, and they are noisy as hell

 

[dlsmith]

Hogs, get lots of hogs. Get lots of those feeders with the doors that slam shut when the hog pull it's head out. Make sure the lot is nice and wet too.

 

[NCL4701]

I have seriously considered goats, guineas, and peacocks. I kind of like goats for no good reason, guineas for reasons enumerated by Fordtech, and peacocks because they’re damn near as loud as that Chrysler siren.

Hogs would irritate me near as much as anyone. I grew up with cows so cow manure smells like home to me. A couple of Angus steers might be nice. I’ve had to spend a good bit of time in hog houses for work and they’re in a class of their own.

Seriously, I’m retiring at the end of the year and if my wife and I don’t end up traveling a good bit we are pretty likely to get some animals. If we do, definitely a dog to keep me sane.

Whether we do much traveling mostly depends on whether she can get her chronic pain under control and the jury is still out on that one. We’ll see…

 

[Daylight]

I feel your pain... "Developers" to me are just money-hungry "destroyers" of open space, precious agricultural land and beautiful landscapes, who don't give a hoot about future generations.

Two years ago, a developer (in a shady deal with the mayor...) proposed to build six big, modern (bunker-style) houses in the center of my 1000-year old village, on a plot of barely more than 2.5 acres, enlarging roads, covering over a brook and obliging a farmer to move out.

The town council actually approved (against all negative feedback from the inhabitats) this madness, but they hadn't counted on me and my bad character... Rather than making noise, I had a specialized lawyer submit an appeal with the State Council (in Belgium, that's the supreme administrative court). Cost me a the price of several implements (compulsory OTT content ), but the development was quickly canceled and will never return. As a little extra, the town administration is now very careful in dealing with me...

Situation: I have a pair of $&@* developers putting in 700 houses around our little 70 acres. I’m in the county and they can’t annex me because I’m a farm so NO noise ordinance between 5am and 11pm.

Question: Can I get something similar in more of a 30 to 40 HP size?

If yes and I could cobble up a PTO connection that might replace the grapple as my favorite tractor attachment.

 

[fried1765]

Situation: I have a pair of $&@* developers putting in 700 houses around our little 70 acres. I’m in the county and they can’t annex me because I’m a farm so NO noise ordinance between 5am and 11pm.

Question: Can I get something similar in more of a 30 to 40 HP size?

If yes and I could cobble up a PTO connection that might replace the grapple as my favorite tractor attachment.

I have two tugboat (or train) whistles.
They run off compressed air.
My 5HP Quincy, with 80 gallon tank, does a fine job!

 

[DustyRusty]

I have two tugboat (or train) whistles.
They run off compressed air.
My 5HP Quincy, with 80 gallon tank, does a fine job!

Is it a vertical or horizontal tank model? Does your Quincy have an oil filter or did you choose the splash lube edition?

 

[NCL4701]

I feel your pain... "Developers" to me are just money-hungry "destroyers" of open space, precious agricultural land and beautiful landscapes, who don't give a hoot about future generations.

Two years ago, a developer (in a shady deal with the mayor...) proposed to build six big, modern (bunker-style) houses in the center of my 1000-year old village, on a plot of barely more than 2.5 acres, enlarging roads, covering over a brook and obliging a farmer to move out.

The town council actually approved (against all negative feedback from the inhabitats) this madness, but they hadn't counted on me and my bad character... Rather than making noise, I had a specialized lawyer submit an appeal with the State Council (in Belgium, that's the supreme administrative court). Cost me a the price of several implements (compulsory OTT content ), but the development was quickly canceled and will never return. As a little extra, the town administration is now very careful in dealing with me...

At least I now know it isn’t just North Carolina or the US. Apparently it’s the same everywhere. Glad to hear you got a complete win. Not common, at least not here.

Of course the politicians will approve anything that lines their pockets or increases their tax revenue. There are, however, some protections for farmers. Which is why our place is now legally a tree farm. The two developers both unsuccessfully tried to challenge that status. Long story but because I had the NC Forest Service do my management plan instead of a private forester, that went nowhere.

One of my upcoming post retirement projects is to look into potential qualification for carbon credit and habitat maintenance programs. With all the trees and open land they’re taking around me, there’s a decent chance there’s a program that will pay me to not cut the trees that I don’t want to cut anyway and still not mess up my farm status.

You can’t win if you aren’t playing the game by the rules. So me and a couple of developers play. So far I’m doing OK.

 

[Yooper]

Almost as loud as my annoying cousin

 

[lynnmor]

Our wonderful school board bought a country club some years ago despite the land being in the next school district. They used a portion of the land and now want to sell the remainder to a developer. The land is not zoned for that use and they are trying to get it changed.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

When the City of Hamilton 'annexed' us 'rural' towns..'magically' ALL farmland got rezoned as HOUSING......
making it easy for sleezy developers to buy prime agicultural farmland and put up$$$$ houses....

 

[fried1765]

Is it a vertical or horizontal tank model? Does your Quincy have an oil filter or did you choose the splash lube edition?

80 gal vertical tank with 5HP pressure lubed compressor. and oil filter.
It is a first class piece of machinery.
Bought it new, 30+ years ago.
Has had very little use.

 

[skeets]

so you can have farm animals right?

get a rather large flock of guineas

Provides excellent pest control, eggs, meat, and they are noisy as hell

Very close, no guineas, but 2 Peahens and 1 Peacock,,,,They scream,,, YELLLLLP and have no idea of property lines ,,,, Very evil laugh

 

[lugbolt]

I own a race car, a too-loud Mustang, and a somewhat loud street-driven Ford Maverick.

It's a good thing I don't have close neighbors. Those that are "neighbors", enjoy my antics-which doesn't happen very often anyway

I grew up in a inner-city neighborhood where we had thugs, we had yuppies, rednecks, and everything in between. Fighting with neighbors accomplishes nothing on either end. I learned that, the hard way. Can't tell how many times dad ran outside with whatever weapon of choice, hollering at whichever neighbor he was mad at or was mad at him for whatever reason (noise usually, we had go-karts that I raced). How he didn't shoot anyone was beyond me.

I got one "neighbor" whose younger kid can't come or go without blaring the deep bass in his truck, or one of his trucks. He's destroyed about 4 of them in the last 5 months and they're all laying in the front yard in various states of disassembly. I offered to buy his place because he don't take care of it, but he said "not for sale". Their neighbor woke their drunk tails up one early Sunday morning, loudest amp I've ever heard, guy's pretty good on the guitar too. They're over 3/4 mile away and I heard it plain as day from my place. I was like what in the world? Jumped on the scooter, rode around, then found the guy outside with the guitar and several speakers, it was so loud that it honestly HURT my ears. He's got a little girl, about 4. She was standing in the yard holding her ears, crying. I rode back to the house but the thought of that little girl holding her ears bothered me, couldn't help but call the sheriff. No noise ordinance, but there are all kinds of things he could go after em for. Ain't heard a peep out of that neighbor since. The loud bass guys, didn't change them any. But they have a pattern. They're usually fully polluted by 11pm and will sleep til about 11 the next morning. Easy to wake them at 0600.

 

[fried1765]

I own a race car, a too-loud Mustang, and a somewhat loud street-driven Ford Maverick.

It's a good thing I don't have close neighbors. Those that are "neighbors", enjoy my antics-which doesn't happen very often anyway

I grew up in a inner-city neighborhood where we had thugs, we had yuppies, rednecks, and everything in between. Fighting with neighbors accomplishes nothing on either end. I learned that, the hard way. Can't tell how many times dad ran outside with whatever weapon of choice, hollering at whichever neighbor he was mad at or was mad at him for whatever reason (noise usually, we had go-karts that I raced). How he didn't shoot anyone was beyond me.

I got one "neighbor" whose younger kid can't come or go without blaring the deep bass in his truck, or one of his trucks. He's destroyed about 4 of them in the last 5 months and they're all laying in the front yard in various states of disassembly. I offered to buy his place because he don't take care of it, but he said "not for sale". Their neighbor woke their drunk tails up one early Sunday morning, loudest amp I've ever heard, guy's pretty good on the guitar too. They're over 3/4 mile away and I heard it plain as day from my place. I was like what in the world? Jumped on the scooter, rode around, then found the guy outside with the guitar and several speakers, it was so loud that it honestly HURT my ears. He's got a little girl, about 4. She was standing in the yard holding her ears, crying. I rode back to the house but the thought of that little girl holding her ears bothered me, couldn't help but call the sheriff. No noise ordinance, but there are all kinds of things he could go after em for. Ain't heard a peep out of that neighbor since. The loud bass guys, didn't change them any. But they have a pattern. They're usually fully polluted by 11pm and will sleep til about 11 the next morning. Easy to wake them at 0600.

It would seem that you should seriously consider moving.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

LB... call CPS( Child Protective Services ) ! They'd take a very dim view of a 4 year old being ABUSED......

 

[lynnmor]

LB... call CPS( Child Protective Services ) ! They'd take a very dim view of a 4 year old being ABUSED......

If they won't investigate a neighbor for towing a wagon load of toddlers while holding one with an arm while mowing the bank along a busy road, I doubt they will do anything.

 

[lugbolt]

The cops live right down the road from me...I have a neighbor (and his son who lives there as well) who are both cops. Across the street, that guy works for the feds, I think DEA but not positive (he wont' say). Next to him is a SWAT and bomb squad sniper. Behind me, a Spec ops helicopter pilot. On the other side of the loop, 2 more cops. Trooper used to live in the house I'm in now. There is no shortage of "law" out here, yet nobody will do anything when you ask em to. But none of that stops the other morons across the way from doing stupid stuff which is one reason why I sleep with one eye open.

The cops can't do a lot of things anyway, thanks to (in part) by greedy attorneys who will bring up a case that sets a precedent, then at some point results in some sort of law that limits what police/fire/etc can do. Yet the feds? They can do whatever they want to. IRS got the place I used to work for (not because of taxes, either), and one of the agents said, and a direct quote "we are the IRS and we can do anything we want". That quote will forever be stuck in my mind as that agent was one of the two that had the business end of an automatic weapon stuck in my face as I was trying to get some work done. For the record I had absolutely nothing to do with why they were there, other than just being there. I work in the back and don't touch money yet I'm criminalized and probabaly on some kind of watch list. Yes I'm a little bitter about it and because of that deal in 2012, I can't ever fully trust our government again. And that bothers me.