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

[Richard Fink Sr]

Carl the one think you forgot is a Detroit power unit to use every day to 
recharge the batteries in your tractors. A must for any farm large or 
small. A 453 works best at 2300 RPM.
R Fink
PA




At 07:55 PM 6/6/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>
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