I'm in the Northeast, so we have laws for everything. It's pretty rural since I live close to the middle of town, and I have farms bordering two sides of my property and a single house on each of the other two sides before you reach farmland again. Now that the leaves are starting to fall, I have neighbors again, well at least I can see their houses now. It's odd, 4 wheelers are somehow bad, but I can drive my tractor on the street through the middle of town without question.
Some people should stay in town!
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PBMAX
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My neighbor that farms about 30 +/- acres is just the other side of the lot next door. A couple hundred ft away. He tills,plows and spreads as often as needed with no complaints from me. He does it cause he enjoys it and has on several occassions offered us various veggies. I have no complants about that at all. It's his property and should be able to enjoy it... Even with the dust it often kick up. His son has a dove hunting group during season and I had to ask him only once to becarefull were them city folk shoot. This after some pellets landed at my feet one day in the drive area our first yr there. Have had no other problems with this since.
If a recall correctly in Bama it's 500' from a road or dwelling for shooting.
As for lights whe I went to the power Co and signed up and asked what was needed to meet spec for underground power. The Engineer asked if I wanted a light on the pole. I asked, can you put switch at the bottom, so I can turn it off if want. He looked at me funny and said no. I said you have your answer then. Still a looking at me funny, but smiled when I said. I moved to the country to see the stars again.
Shortly after a moved in to the house i was talking to a neighbor up the road a few hundred feet. He also asked if I planed on a light on the pole and I related the story above. There are now no burning lights on poles near us... Don't ya just adore great neighbors.
So far the few of us get along well and help one another often. I can only hope it stays that way....
Now if I could only get the folks on the other side of the vale to tip his Monster HID light down a couple of degres all would be well....Maybe the trees grow up in the way in a few years...
If a recall correctly in Bama it's 500' from a road or dwelling for shooting.
As for lights whe I went to the power Co and signed up and asked what was needed to meet spec for underground power. The Engineer asked if I wanted a light on the pole. I asked, can you put switch at the bottom, so I can turn it off if want. He looked at me funny and said no. I said you have your answer then. Still a looking at me funny, but smiled when I said. I moved to the country to see the stars again.
Shortly after a moved in to the house i was talking to a neighbor up the road a few hundred feet. He also asked if I planed on a light on the pole and I related the story above. There are now no burning lights on poles near us... Don't ya just adore great neighbors.
So far the few of us get along well and help one another often. I can only hope it stays that way....
Now if I could only get the folks on the other side of the vale to tip his Monster HID light down a couple of degres all would be well....Maybe the trees grow up in the way in a few years...
chucko
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hahaah
the old guy that lives beside me asked me one day if I would help pay the bill for the pole lite he had the power co put up because it helps me to. I said no he also looked at me funny
the old guy that lives beside me asked me one day if I would help pay the bill for the pole lite he had the power co put up because it helps me to. I said no he also looked at me funny
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<font color="red"> it helps me to </font>
Let's see . . .
it helps keep you awake at night?
it helps draw more bugs to the area?
it helps light the way for burglars & other ne'redo'ells?
it helps by reducing your view of night sky?
That kind of help I really don't need.
Let's see . . .
it helps keep you awake at night?
it helps draw more bugs to the area?
it helps light the way for burglars & other ne'redo'ells?
it helps by reducing your view of night sky?
That kind of help I really don't need.
chucko
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yea Bob that was my thoughts. Three hurrinces later and the @#$% thing is still there
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<font color="red"> Three hurrinces later and the @#$% thing is still there
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See the problem is you are not as lucky as I am. If you were me, and had my luck, you'd pay for the thing and about 30 seconds after the check cleared the bank a bolt of lightning would take that light & pole out all the way down to the bedrock. Oh wait, that would be a good thing! Go write the check, see what happens.
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See the problem is you are not as lucky as I am. If you were me, and had my luck, you'd pay for the thing and about 30 seconds after the check cleared the bank a bolt of lightning would take that light & pole out all the way down to the bedrock. Oh wait, that would be a good thing! Go write the check, see what happens.
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i personaly dont know why everyone is so against outside lights, we have a large one on a pole that lights the area in back of our house and in front of the barn, one shed and the garage, it stays on almost all the time, only time it isnt on usualy is haloween or when the bulb goes out, i realy like it, gives ya light to see if anyone is roaming the yard, and most of all it gives ya light to get outa the car at night or if you are working on something in the garage and its late you can go get something from the barn or whatever and not worry about tripping into all sortsa stuff in the yard
PBMAX
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Gary, He could also put them on motion detectors with one mounted down at the entrance and by the garage so they only come on for a few minute whe she is coming and going. that way she wouldn't accedentally leave them on.
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I guess that I think a motion sensor light would do everything you said your pole light would do, except it would cost less to run and it wouldn't (at least in the case of many pole lights) shine a glaring harsh light into the windows of the neighbors who don't want them.
I have plenty of lights on my house. But I like the night sky, the solitude of the dark woods, and glow of the moon light. When I need to I can light up the countryside around my home, but that almost never is done. And when my lights are on, they point onto my property.
I have two houses up the street that have flood lamps pointed out at the road. Both have lights that glare into the windshield of drivers and neither house is set very far off the road so that makes it worse. What they have those light for I'll never figure out, but the good thing is they rarely turn them on.
I have plenty of lights on my house. But I like the night sky, the solitude of the dark woods, and glow of the moon light. When I need to I can light up the countryside around my home, but that almost never is done. And when my lights are on, they point onto my property.
I have two houses up the street that have flood lamps pointed out at the road. Both have lights that glare into the windshield of drivers and neither house is set very far off the road so that makes it worse. What they have those light for I'll never figure out, but the good thing is they rarely turn them on.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( i personaly dont know why everyone is so against outside lights )</font>
I guess to each his own, Mark. When we bought our place in the country, it already had 3 outside lights with the electric eyes to come on at dark. So I owned them; two were on poles and one on the shop building. I eliminated the one on the shop building, but kept the other two; one on either side of the house. And in the area for miles around us, I'd estimate that 90% or more of the homes either had lights like ours or had the ones on the power pole that were maintained by the power company. For one thing, there's no way my wife's going to sleep in the dark, ever since she went to the bathroom in the dark 27 years ago and sat down on the cat that was apparently getting a drink from the toilet. And out in the country, I went to the mailbox one night after dark and came very near having an unwelcome encounter with a skunk. So . . ., I don't want bright lights and I like the lack of noise in the country, but I reckon we'll always have enough light to see where we're going at night.
I guess to each his own, Mark. When we bought our place in the country, it already had 3 outside lights with the electric eyes to come on at dark. So I owned them; two were on poles and one on the shop building. I eliminated the one on the shop building, but kept the other two; one on either side of the house. And in the area for miles around us, I'd estimate that 90% or more of the homes either had lights like ours or had the ones on the power pole that were maintained by the power company. For one thing, there's no way my wife's going to sleep in the dark, ever since she went to the bathroom in the dark 27 years ago and sat down on the cat that was apparently getting a drink from the toilet. And out in the country, I went to the mailbox one night after dark and came very near having an unwelcome encounter with a skunk. So . . ., I don't want bright lights and I like the lack of noise in the country, but I reckon we'll always have enough light to see where we're going at night.