My property is not the county dump!

Mark4510 · Oct 20, 2004

I will try to go through it and see if I can find any identifier and will take safety precautions as Robert suggests. My first reaction was much like ByronBob suggests but I am no marksman so I would probably hit someone. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bob S....I am sure not saying all the folks that move into our area are rich city folks that dont care. Actually, most of them are like you. They adapted the rural life style for a reason and want to fit in so all can enjoy it. I love where we live and would not begrudge anyone the same life we have and love.

As Robert can attest, our little road is rough enough that a speed bump would be the smoothest part of the road and as he can also attest, even with a fully loaded truck and trailer you get pretty beat up going the speed limit. That being the case I find myself going slow to keep the horses from being beaten up but frequently see cars coming up on my 25mph pace while they are going twice that. I worry about being rear ended with horses in the trailer. I guess I will call the Sheriff and see if they do some speed control out there. I guess I would just call the Sheriffs office and go from there.

Robert, I know the area you are talking about and I can just see you going by with a knowing grin on your face. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Thanks gents....
Mark

Taylortractornut · Oct 20, 2004

Mark do what i did on my neighbors property. He had an old home site some of the preppy kids were taking the old antiques out of and also dumping garbage there. It was down hill and I knew where an old sectoin harrow on the property was. I misplaced it upside down in the tall grass one evening about 4 of them drove over it in a line. At the private plant landfill at work weve had problems with the new plant chunking house hold rubbish in with the inert. We go through alot of the bags and find old check stubs, bills and all sorts of tattle tales in them. I know a few farmers that had property on a road cut off by a fallen bridge. the local tire shops were dumping on his place in the creeks and all then it came to be a local monthly dumping by alot of folks. It smelled like a soured garbage truck. Him and his son boxed them off with 2 big farm tractors and called the cops. 2 of the dumpers were county employees in a county truck saving a trip to the landfill 10 miles away. If the police dont take it serious cll in the local news papers and the EPA when the EPA gets done shaking them like a bulldog theyll want make the landfill trip.

Mark4510 · Oct 20, 2004

Taylor,
In hindsight I should have done that when I caught people but I kept thinking it would be the last one. We have a pasture down near there that we are rehabilitating so I need to be careful how far I go. Plus, this is California where the criminals and deviants are a protected class and the good hardworking honest folk are guilty of something......as soon as our courts and legislature can determine what that new crime should be.

I think the general input here is to try to track the trash down and put in a gate. The one that WraughtenHarv built seems strong enough but way beyond my skills. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I will have to go back through some of the gate threads on TBN and see what sort of solar electronic opener/gate combinations would work.
Mark

Ken_CT · Oct 20, 2004

RobertN, if you had pulled them out, a lawyer would probably contact you to sue for the damage you did to the "poor child's" car. After all, it couldn't be their kids fault /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif.

RobertN · Oct 20, 2004

Stop by the CHP office in Placerville. They should be able to help. They are nice folks in there. They have brought CHP cars out to our Cub Scout Pinewood Derby(the last few years, we have given the CHP and Sheriff pinewood car kits, so they could compete at the derby with "patrol cars", and help judge cars).

No, we do not have the best roads in some area's. I used to have and haul horses. Even with a good trailer, you still have to take it real easy to keep the poor critters from being jostled too much.

RobertN · Oct 20, 2004

That is another reason for passing them up. Years ago, my Dad helped a guy who was badly stuck. Dad pulled him out with our Jeep and a chain, but the guys bumper got messed up bad. My dad left it up to him on where to connect, and to stay out of the mud. that was in the 70's, before things went too nuts. The guy was not happy, but he hooked it up, and he was un-stuck...

Most folks have cell phones anyways; they can call a tow truck themselves. If not, I will let them call on my cell phone.

Jim_Fisher · Oct 20, 2004

Bird,

( That's a bit surprising. I know a fellow who got to go clean up a mess that he dumped and pay a fine when identifying paperwork was found in the garbage he had dumped. )

I'm surprised, too.

We had a similar situation back in the sixties. Dad called the state police. He and the trooper that handled the call went through the trash and found some junk mail that had been thrown away. The trooper said that he'd take care of it and he did. The trash was cleaned up and no more was dumped.

BigDave · Oct 21, 2004

We don't get much household trash or party left-overs since I made the local teens aware that they weren't welcome, but we still get big ticket items: a sofa, a tiller, a push mower, things that the private trash services won't take. I end up taking the stuff to dump & paying the $4 myself.

Now not be stereotyped, but I also drive one of those German cars out in the country; that is when I'm not in my truck. The only time I ever thought about giving a truck pulling a horse trailer the finger is when I was on my bicycle. He didn't even think about stopping at the stop sign. Giving him the finger would have been an afterthought anyway, basically because my heart was in my throat as I slammed on my brakes to avoid the 35ft moving road block in front of me. Some skidding & an unplanned right turn meant I lived to tell the tale.

Gary_in_Indiana · Oct 21, 2004

"I sifted through all the "stuff' and found a persons name and address." 

This sounds an awful lot like Officer Obie from 'Alice's Restaurant' by Arlo Guthrie. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

For those of you who actually get (remember?) the reference, here's a Tribute to Officer Obie.

bczoom · Oct 21, 2004

Mark4510,

Sorry to hear about your issues.
We've had similar issues in our area in the past.
For the trash, sifting to find its origin and notifying the police has worked i nour area.
For speeders and the like, we've found a couple things that work.
Have the police put up some vascar lines. Unfortunately, this only works for a couple months before they realize there's never been a cruiser watching.

The big one that has helped us is camcorders. If a violator is seeing their activities are being recorded, they'll amend their ways. We've given films to the local law enforcers and they've used to give warnings for traffic violations (they said they would have a hard time giving a citation using these).