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

[charlie hill]

Mike, except for the snow mobiles, that sounds like a typical day in the
south.  grins

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <msloane at att.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] The noise; the noise; the noise,noise, noise!


> I would love to have you for a neighbor, especially compared to one of
> my neighbors: he thinks that weekends were made for him and his friends
> to spend the day shooting their collections of rifles and pistols at
> targets set up on a bank next to his metal barn. They all wear hearing
> pods, so they don't notice the noise, but the sound comes out of the
> area between the bank and the metal barn like a giant loudspeaker! He
> also thinks that quiet snowy nights were made for he and his friends to
> spend the time cruising up and down the lane and woods on their
> snowmobiles. And quiets Sunday summer evenings are perfect for cruising
> up and down the lane on their ATV's. :-( You might suggest to your
> whining neighbor that things could be a LOT worse.
>
> Mike
>
> carl gogol 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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> -- 
> Mike Sloane
> Allamuchy NJ
> Email: (msloane at att.net)
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>
> Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
> -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
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