Angry neighbor has an "oops" moment

[Sindawe]

Geeezzz....

some people's kids, harassing a farmer who puts the food people eat into the pipe. :banghead:

When I was in High School, my buddies used to whine and fuss about the occasional peice of farm equipment out on the roads where they wanted to open up the car and let it fly. They say stuff like the the equipment should be banned from the roads, farmers are dumb hicks, etc, etc, etc. I would just ask them "Hey dude, do you like to eat? Yea? Where do you think that food comes from? No, BEFORE its in the grocery store? Thats right, a FARM, so until you can subsist on light and air, ****."

I'm still surprised that most of 'em made it out of their 20's alive.

 

[Art Eatman]

I've always felt lucky for having a life mixed between city living and country living. The feeling is even stronger when watching ex-urbanites try to "make it" in the country.

They have to learn the hard way about carpentry, wiring, plumbing, fence-building, firewood hassles and bugs and snakes and critters-in-general. And mud. Don't forget mud.

Bless their little old hearts! They're so much fun to watch!

After watching folks move out to my area of desert, this last twenty years, I firmly believe: It's much, much easier for a country boy to learn about "city" than for a city boy to learn about "country".

Heck, there's city folks who'll buy a tract of land downwind from a hog farm!

, Art

 

[Moondoggie]

Also in defense of the farmer, many combines are shared among several farmers on a "co-op" basis because they are so expensive and only get used a few days each year. They are very complex and break down quite a bit. The availability of trucks/drivers to move grain from the field to the elevator AND elevator capacity are also factors that most folks aren't aware of. Sometimes fluctuations in grain prices play a role in the decision of when to harvest. It's a business decision to harvest an any hour of the day or night when the equipment is available and conditions are right...kinda like a plant adding a 2nd/3rd shift when business conditions dictate. The major difference is that a big part of this farmer's annual income depends on getting this crop out of the field.

This whiner needs a good slapping-around as a wake-up call, and his right to own firearms permanently revoked. He gives responsible gun owners a bad name!

And "we" ought to make him grow all of his own food for a year...maybe on a prison farm somewhere!

 

[Beren]

Follow-up:

http://post-gazette.com/pg/04330/417346.stm

Interesting quotes:

"According to the state police, Bennett, 30, used the rifle only to scare Bieda because he was upset by the tractor noise so late at night. But Bieda's wife, Valerie, said the gun was loaded."

"Bieda knew rain was coming yesterday, so he wanted to harvest the rest of the corn at his parents' farm before it hit. He only had about five minutes of work left when Bennett showed up."

"He surrendered and was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and simple assault; reckless endangerment; terroristic threats; and trespass by a motor vehicle."

 

[migoi]

Well...

we've certainly come a long way from the time where neighbors of a farmer looking at deteriorating weather would pitch in and make sure the field was done before the rain hit.

migoi

 

[CarlS]

I'm sorry, George, but you have got to be kidding? You harvest when you can. Anyone near fields should know this and, if they don't like it, then they need to move. It's not the farmer's problem.

Amen and well stated. When you farm, you harvest while you can and when you can. And pray that prices are high enough to meet expenses and make a little profit.

 

[Art Eatman]

"What would you do with a million tax-free dollars?"

"Aw, I'd just keep on farmin' 'til it's gone."

 

[Ryder]

The dork is lucky he didn't get shot the first time he threatened the farmer.

 

[magsnubby]

Idiots like that is why i always had a .357 on my hip when i was farming. Didn't make any difference what time of day (or night) it was or what i was doing, from watering the livestock to driving a tractor or harvester, my Security Six was my constant companion.

 

[pluvo]

I'd love to trade the occasional farm noise for the car alarms/sirens/helicopter racket I have to put up with all the time.

I say they should plead the guy out and let him work the farmer's fields next year as his community service.

1000 hours or so should do it.

 

[c_yeager]

The noise of farming equipment is just one of those things you have to put up with in the country. It beats the heck out of the load stereos and high crime/hoodlums with guns that you find in the city.

Apparently this fellow missed that concept on SEVERAL levels. The country is better off with him not in it.

 

[reagansquad]

Loud harvest is better than boom cars... except now that I'm out of the hellhole, I can't sleep without boom cars trains and sirens.

 

[ckyllo]

since I am a farmer part time, just a small farm. I think I can say on behalf of all farmers, If you dont like it go back to the city where you belong. living next to a corn field means you have a very quiet neighbor 51 weeks of the year and the loud time is broken up through the year. most fields around here are 2-3 days to prep and plant 1 day to spray and around a day or 2 to harvest. now you just mutiply that by many fields and it makes for a very full plate. and I do carry on the farm and had to use my usp one time, a shield broke and needed a hole drilled in it to resecure it and I was too lazy to walk back to get a drill.

 

[migoi]

You might have missed the time...

needed a bit, pluvo

"I'd love to trade the occasional farm noise for the car alarms/sirens/helicopter racket I have to put up with all the time.

I say they should plead the guy out and let him work the farmer's fields next year as his community service.

1000 hours or so should do it. "

Most of the farmers I've known throughout my life have consistently worked in the 12 to 15 hours a day, 6 to 7 days a week, 51 to 52 weeks a year range. Taking the low end of all those ranges and giving him an extra week off because he's a city fella comes out to: 6 X 12=72, 72 X 50 = 3600. Then to make it more real, if he doesn't make the margin after paying overhead... the year don't count, he has to do it again with an extra day for every $100 below expenses he manages to make.

To all the farmers reading...thanks.

migoi

 

[litman252]

Assuming there are no noise ordinances in effect at that hour, the farmer was probably within his rights to run the combine. Whether or not it was the "right thing" to do is another story. He probably should have let his neighbors know that he wanted to finish harvesting and to expect some noise for awhile.

From a guy who grew up on a farm and still helps Dad as much as possible, GIVE ME A BREAK.

Couple of months ago I was busy at work, Dad asked for help a couple of days in advance. Went to bed a 6 on Wed night, got up at 11:30 at night and went to work. Was done working at 5pm on Thur. night and ran up to Dad's to do some hay, Got home around 11pm. Just another day in "the life"
And I have been in a tractor many times at 3 in the morning, both starting early and going late. I do this just to help the old man, nothing like the ones doing it full time, they deserve many times more the credit.

And thanks to the ones who say thanks, just something many of us do 'cause we can and want to.


Tony

 

[gunsmith]

Scare him,eh?

"Overdorff ordered him to drop the gun. He did and was arrested. Police said they determined later that Bennett was upset about the noise and only wanted to scare Bieda into stopping "

I remember that movie with Charles Bronson as the good guy and Henry Fonda as the bad guy (Once Upon The Time In The West) the Fonda character said-
"People scare better when they're dead"

 

[ceetee]

Back in the days when "civilized" Florida ended a few miles inland from the beach, a man started up a mushroom farm, way out in the boonies. Over the years, "civilization" spread, and grew, and filled in the empty spaces around him.

Now I won't pretend to say that mushroom farms smell pretty. In fact, mushrooms grow best in a mixture of pure manure, combined with more manure, topped off by a nice healthy dose of manure. Considering the fact that mushrooms grow fast, and mature in days, this "gentleman farmer" did a bang-up business. So good was his business, in fact, that he was forever in need of the aforementioned manure, and brought it in fresh by the truckload.

His new neighbors put up with his nonsense for a few years, then someone started complaining to the city zoning board that his farm was a nuisance. The zoning board agreed that it was probably not too pleasant living next to a manure dump, and suggested the irate folks move somewhere nicer.

These folks tried to get him cited for health code violations, noise violations, whatever. Finally they sued, seeking a stop order. The judge laughed at them, right there in court.

It seems that there's a little common sense left in the world, though you just may have to go looking for it...

 

[anapex]

I spent the first 20 years of my life in Indiana County, more then likely this wasn't a yuppie complaining (although possible). My guess is it was someone with a hangover who wanted some quiet so he could sleep it off. And yes in the christmas tree capital of the world you can still have a hangover at 10:30 at night.