Another neighbor problem.

[SageBrush]

Even at our "city" house, we have a nut next door. The whole neighborhood wants him gone. Dosen't bother me much. But he calls the code enforcement people out all the time on my neighbors for nothing. Like unsafe decks that are fine, and loud music only he plays at 7:00 am, parking on the street etc...

Guess where I park my dump truck when I brink it home? Its actually ok with the codes to park on the street for 48 hours or less. All you have to do is move it once every 48 if you really need to leave it there, like on a weekend. He called the county out on me once for a ATV trailer I bring home sometimes, but I wasn't doing anything wrong, they allow non commercial trailers with no limits. Those code people really hate to come out, but they are required to answer every call from this guy.

Our tax dollars at work. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[SageBrush]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sage,

Check out Northern Tool & Equipment. I think they have gate openers that are battery powered and even some photoelectric deals that keep your battery charged. I'd think as far south as you are that might be the hot setup for you. )</font>

Yes, I'm looking at those. Pricey aren't they? I don't know much about them, but I don't think solar option will work, to many shade trees. It may work up top at the main road gate, its in the sun all day. I'm going to go look at the norther tool fuel tanks soon, I'll have to see if I can eye ball one.

I can use the middle buster I modified to trench a line over to the end of the drive that really needs a gate opener. I'm glad I found that thread on the middle buster / sub soiler trencher project, very helpfull. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

I had some folks that live near the landfill dad and I run and they used to report me for running the scraper to the plant for maintenance and other things. The DOT asked about it but i think plant manager had them in the pocket so to speak. this guy got mad cause we only took inert waste from the plant and this couple that we had an easment from we took some of there construction scraps. This made the other guy mad and hed call the cops. I made it a point to get to work before sunrise and drag my cutting edge on the shoulder. Its a hellatious racket at 4am. Our scraper was down and we rented a TS14B Terex with a straight pipe on front and rear engines. After hearing that Detroit a couple mornings he came to apologize. Some folks cant leave others alone. I have a neighbor thats a Volunteer firefighter and Im a pyromaniac. When i do a backhoe job and I haul the brush i have an old roadbed we fill up for a few months with logs and brush and then have a good burning. One time last year he ran up in the driveway with a firetruck gonna monitor the fire. He said theres a no burn out and i was gonna get a ticket. All this after a 5inch rain. He kinda smarted off a few times, I told him that him and his buddy could go engage in single participant self procreation and his reply was you dont want to make us mad we re the ones that put out house fires. I told them that if my house caught on fire that i didnt want them near it. I respect the other fire fighters and emt's. They use common sense and respect a persons privacy.

 

[Egon]

You could have rented a double bucket three motor Terrex. Nothing like a Screaming Jimmy for the late risers.

Egon

 

[Taylortractornut]

Egon The only double buckets ive ever seen were in books. I still want one though. Many folks cuss them I love em. I run 5299 American crane for a fella here and its got a 471. Ive had the muffler burn out on it once. I used to have an old 70 Horse continental i bought at an auction. It was and aircraft motor set up as a ground power unit. I just got the motor and all the manifolds were leaking. THe local bike shop had 2 wrecked 750 Hondas with new Glass packs. I bougt the four pipes and welded together a new manifold. Each pip stuck straight up and had its own raincap. It was fun to raise hell with in the nieghbor hood when i d have to sleep and the down the road neighbors roamed with the bass up. Id ride by wit hthe skid motor on the trailer at full throttle , sounded like a 50 pound hornet in an oil drum lol. I think of my few bad nieghbors and come up with new repellants for them lol.

 

[Egon]

The double buckets kinda looked like a snake. Needed a lot of room to turn around in. They also spent a lot of time in the shop.
In reality they were just too clumsy to be usefull. It's been almost 30 years since I seen them on a job I was at.

Egon

 

[bgott]

It sounds like *you* might be the neighbor from hell! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Having said that, I need you and your pan scraper over here. I have a few buttheads around here that like to play mariachi music with sub-woofers at three A.M. and I think you might just be the person to send them a message! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Egon]

Perhaps join them with a foghorn seranade about 07:00 AM.

Egon

 

[chrisjbell]

<font color="blue"> What about trespassing or is that legal out there? </font>

Well, I don't really know the answer. I would think that I retain the right to grant or deny access on the road where it runs across my property (except for those that have a legal easement), but the sheriff was talking as though that isn't the case. I don't think it is worth spending a couple hundred bucks to talk to a lawyer at this point, but I would think that anyone without permission to be on my property would be a trespasser.

On the other hand, we live in a state where if someone tries to rob your house and breaks their leg coming up to your window they can sue you. So I don't really have an answer...

 

[Taylortractornut]

Egon thats the way i feel about farm tractors here on most jobs. Ive alway been able to turn a scraper around sharper than a farm tractor and a pair of 24 yard pans. Also around here the tractors that were new a few years ago are dropping transmissions and differentials like mosquitos in ddt. My neighbors had a 2 bucket Euclid he said it made and interesting manuver when the rear governer broke and went wide open in a turn. He also had a Tournapull and Tournadozer that was DC drive.