Neighbors can be your best friends and a gold mine

[JimR]

I plow the drive out to the farm behind our farm for my buddy the farmer. He lives a few miles away at his other farm. He would have to drive his tractor over to do this farm. He in turn gives me veggies in the summer and knocks down the brush on our farm with his rear brush hog mower for me. I also plow out an area on that farm that a dumpster guy uses to store his dumpsters. The dumpster guy stopped by yesterday to thank me for clearing out his dumpsters all winter. He then offered me all the dumpsters that I need to remove the house debris from my farm project. All I need to pay is the dump fees. This is great as I will need a few of them this summer for shingles and interior scrap from the house. He also told me to throw any scrap steel I have into one of his dumpsters and to help myself to any scrap I needed for projects. One look in the dumpster made me smile. There in the bottom where 6 25 pound iron weights and a few bars. Hmmm, thoughts were racing through my head on my new soon to be 3ph ballast attachment. I plan on cutting the bars and welding 4 of them upright on a frame. The plates will stack up on the bars. Each row will hold 100 pounds. He has a few more at his house for me also. Then there were 8 sets of bed rails. This stuff is like gold to me. Amongst the scrap was some nice steel tubing that was part of a bed and is bent in a U shape. Now my new front grille guard is taking shape in my head. Then I found the two side rails with cross bars. Now I see my new step for over my hood taking shape. I never realized that doing someone a favor like plowing could lead into a gold mine of scrap steel and a place to dispose of my old unwanted scrap steel. Now I just need to find the time to make all these projects.

 

[thcri]

I have one neighbor that whenever I help them out with my tractor they will always bring over a bunch of steaks for me. Not just one meals worth but a couple. They have a little three year old boy that just loves machinery. He will stand in front of me and drive my tractor. He can even actually run the loader. I have to say, scoop, lift, dump but he can run the joystick based on me saying the above. His dad has a real nice John Deere riding mowing. Good sized one but he is now a New Holland fan since my TC29D is larger. His mom had him a grandma's a while back and she asked who does he love and I guess he said "Tebe". They figured it out it was Steve meaning me. So mom is jealous of me. He has one of these battery powered jeeps that he has hooked his dad's fertilizer spreader to and now runs all over the yard wth that thinking he is spreading fertilizer.

But yes back to the subject neighbors can be good but then I have some that will take advantage of you also.

murph

 

[vetteman]

I agree we have a neighbor that I blow his driveway for when it gets deep He has a 20 hp Yard Pro with a snowblower and a walk behind. Also he has a loader for the Yard pro, when I saw that I just droo;ed. I asked him how he likes using it he said NEVER had it on , cant figure out how to install it, I told him we will have to put it on sometime and try it , that was 2 years ago !!!!!!!!!!! Did I mention he was a mechanical engineer........ go figure . My father taught me growing up " be kind and helpful to people but dont do their work for them" My neighbor spends most of his time in the house, We had snow one night it stopped about 8:30 I went out to clean our driveway he came home while I was outside and right in the house he went, I thiught he would be back out we had 6- 8 inches. 2 days later I went over and blew it out only because my wife asked me to because his wife got stuck in their driveway that day and had to shovel it out. Wayne

 

[DannyD]

Sounds like you have a bum of an "engineer" or as I call them at times, a stuffed shirt with no clue.

When his wife wakes up and throws him out, maybe you can buy the tractor cheap.

 

[arthr31]

hey, he might be good at math!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

differential equations anyone?

 

[Harleymsn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sounds like you have a bum of an "engineer" or as I call them at times, a stuffed shirt with no clue.

When his wife wakes up and throws him out, maybe you can buy the tractor cheap.

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Why wait for that! She might just let it go cheap while he is still there! LOL

 

[Birdhunter1]

Good neighbors are hard to beat. Up anddown the road tere are good folks living there. Borderign our farm there is a neighbor I have several unfriendly words and thoughts towards due to several undue battles and complaints, like running a combine at 3 am.
The extremely unfortunate thing about that neighbor is that I really want to build a house on the farm in a location that I have always really loved, the downside is that it is right across the field from them and the road would come right next to thier house.

 

[Egon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( like running a combine at 3 am.
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Harvest time for a farmer may be 24 hours a day. He only has a short window time wise to get the crop in.

Egon

 

[Hambone]

<font color="red">Harvest time for a farmer may be 24 hours a day. He only has a short window time wise to get the crop in </font>

Kinda goes with the rural living thing eh? Get er Done!

 

[DannyD]

What good is math when you dont drive a tractor, or in his case even know how to put a front loader on it.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I agree on the good neighbors. we have some of the best around. One owns a hobby green house and he starts my seeds, In return I do a little backhoe work and haul some composts tree bark from the log yard for him. the other is an old timer with 50 acres some in trees and hills. He lets me hunt and plant a few gardens out there. the other is a Fork lift mechanic. He finds me all the cheap lifts at the factories I can haul home and old 3 phase motors for the shop.
One of the neighbors is a fine carpenter and a long time family friend that just built a new house. We trade out work as well.
My favorite part of the week here when Dad owned his roll off truck company was when we would bring in a dumpster from a job and it have the ladder up the side. Id set it off and climb over bal in and dumpster dive for metal lol I seemed to know which ones it was. For 4 years we never bought a stick of metal for the shop.

 

[Birdhunter1]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( like running a combine at 3 am.
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Harvest time for a farmer may be 24 hours a day. He only has a short window time wise to get the crop in.

Egon )</font>

I must have worded that wrong, I was the one in the combine at 3 am and they were the ones that didn't like it. I would never get ticked about a farmer who HAS to get his crop in like that. We didn't want to be out there at that time either, but we had to. Acutally that was back in October, if we hadn't done it that night till 4 am we still would not have been able to get in that field since. It started to rain right as we finished that night, then rained all the next week, and it has never been dry enough since to get in that field with a combine. Though the ground has been frozen a few times since, but the crop would have been lost by then.

 

[turnkey4099]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( like running a combine at 3 am.
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Harvest time for a farmer may be 24 hours a day. He only has a short window time wise to get the crop in.

Egon )</font>

I must have worded that wrong, I was the one in the combine at 3 am and they were the ones that didn't like it. I would never get ticked about a farmer who HAS to get his crop in like that. We didn't want to be out there at that time either, but we had to. Acutally that was back in October, if we hadn't done it that night till 4 am we still would not have been able to get in that field since. It started to rain right as we finished that night, then rained all the next week, and it has never been dry enough since to get in that field with a combine. Though the ground has been frozen a few times since, but the crop would have been lost by then. )</font>

Ah! That explains it. I was shaking my head and couldn't figure out why a regular poster here was complaining about farm work.

Harry K

 

[Birdhunter1]

</font><font color="blueclass=small">( Ah! That explains it. I was shaking my head and couldn't figure out why a regular poster here was complaining about farm work.

Harry K )</font>

Could I be banned for complaining like that about regular farming practices? One thing for sure, if I did there goes any and all credibilty I may have gained from my fellow TBN'ers. Which probably isn't much anyway.


Back to the original issue, my neighbor just found me a set of trailer tires, cheap that are near new.

 

[Currmudgeon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Could I be banned for complaining like that about regular farming practices? )</font>

I think it's in the TOS. If you can't get along with farmers, you're outta here. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I agree with the benefits of good neighbors. Money is expensive, so helping each other is the way neighbors make up for that.