let's remember this is rural living, not unfriendly politics...JD/Bill is a bright guy, if emotional, and with all this dumped on his head, I think he gets the point. Piling on doesn't help.
I did the same thing when I started year a few years back, got all PiXXed off at one of our dependable advertisers, who sent me a subsoiler that had been dragged down the road it look like. I was incensed. My wife was dying and I wanted to get a garden in before she died and I needed that subsoiler, lot of emotion wrapped up in silly things that vendors sure don't know, and I let it all hang out here. Got my ears pinned back. My favorite was being called a yuppie.
What a hoot. And so I learned that starting threads when I was thoroughly ticked off (like JD/Bill...) did not have good ending. Actually we all learned a lot in that thread about managing expectations on new farm equipment.
But I learned the biggest lesson of all.
Keep the honey jar close.
Being nice may have gotten JDGreen nowhere btw, but it sure is the place to start.
I still think he ought to have a controlled burn there with a couple cases of beer and soda for the firemen.
The darned pile is way too big; I would never light that off without a charged line nearby and not some half inch garden hose either. Once it gets away from you, it's Panic City.
And it likely won't. But if it does, that's what JD has no plan for. No ability to put it out.
And what a way to meet the neighbors by torching off one of their pine trees.
Lots of excitement, though honestly with all that snow, pretty unlikely.
But not totally unlikely, and that's why they have rules.
Those of you who live on big properties think this is all nonsense. Problem is living in a rural turning suburban environment where zoning and rule makers abound. Our farm had a private dump when I grew up. Can't do that anymore. We had our own stone incinerator. Can't do that anymore. The only way to get away from the bureaucratic paperchase JD is going through is to move further out, away from the rule makers.
