[AT] The noise; the noise; the noise,noise, noise!

[carl gogol]

Like right out of Dr. Seuss, I have a neighbor from across the street come
up to me 11 AM today to complain about the noise from building our new
machine shed.  This work had started at 10 AM - and there are no sound
ordinances in the township.  All of the sins of the world were laid at my
doorstep, culminating in the statement that says it all - "I've been here 18
years and the neighborhood has just gone to hell since you moved in with the
cacophony of sounds coming from all the tractors running at all hours of the
weekend."  Let it be known, that I don't ever run one in the field before 8
AM on Saturday or 9 Am on a Sunday and probably never after 9 at night.

This is the same one who came to me last summer when we had the big blackout
and complained that we had waked the baby and  he couldn't stand the noise
of our generator. I moved it to the back of our house, away from him - but
don't know if it helped him any.

Now some people are more sensitive and all that; and he is a music person,
but how can the rest of the neighborhood enjoy the sounds or say nothing?  I
told him that I would take his feeling into consideration in the future, but
that this 68 acres was destined to be a working farm in an agricultural
district, and when the work needed to be done and the weather was right, it
was going to get done.

Oh, and by the way, I am not telling the two guys finishing the shed to go
home, - he looked totally frustrated at me and left.

Would anyone handled it differently?

Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400