Richard
Elite Member
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2000
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- Location
- Knoxville, TN
- Tractor
- International 1066 Full sized JCB Loader/Backhoe and a John Deere 430 to mow with
Another viewpoint on leasing it out.
We did that here for a couple years. The guy brought a bulldozer in, knocked down some fences that "were in his way" AND (father in law passed away during this time) he knocked down the tree on top of the (highest hill) in the county where his ashes were spread.
Used fertilizers (I'm told) that nobody wanted around lest they leach into either our well system or the lake. (I personally have difficult time believing this BUT, I'm not a farmer)
When he left, he left behind about 30 large round bales of hay that nobody would let me get rid of because "he might come back for them"....and now, today, 6-7 years later, these bales have small trees growing in them, he's not getting them and the hay is rotting a bit making it much more difficult for me to move them without them flattening and near impossible to even GIVE them away.
So he created more issues/mess here than anyone foresaw and as far as I'm concerned, if he were to be found on the property, I'd be content showing him the most direct path off of it.
So it wasn't a Class "A" experience.
We did that here for a couple years. The guy brought a bulldozer in, knocked down some fences that "were in his way" AND (father in law passed away during this time) he knocked down the tree on top of the (highest hill) in the county where his ashes were spread.
Used fertilizers (I'm told) that nobody wanted around lest they leach into either our well system or the lake. (I personally have difficult time believing this BUT, I'm not a farmer)
When he left, he left behind about 30 large round bales of hay that nobody would let me get rid of because "he might come back for them"....and now, today, 6-7 years later, these bales have small trees growing in them, he's not getting them and the hay is rotting a bit making it much more difficult for me to move them without them flattening and near impossible to even GIVE them away.
So he created more issues/mess here than anyone foresaw and as far as I'm concerned, if he were to be found on the property, I'd be content showing him the most direct path off of it.
So it wasn't a Class "A" experience.