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

[carl gogol]

Thanks to everyone that replied!  It was nice to have my thoughts and
feelings about this complaining neighbor validated by a great group of
like-minded individuals.  Some of your thoughts on the subject are priceless
and others are just great strategic counter-moves.
I only look at email in the PM after I get back in the house from doing
whatever around the place and I must say that the number of replies written
today on the subject just floored me.  We all love our old iron, especially
if it has an engine, and probably all of us will cut the other guy some
slack without asking.  My neighbor will get the same consideration I have
always given him, but I am not going to stop doing anything because of him.
I will try not to do things to aggravate him even more, but probably will
because his viewpoint is so far removed from my own I cannot begin to
understand his feelings.  I suppose if a FOR SALE sign goes up on his house
in the nest few weeks I will not be surprised, nor sad.
We find it interesting that nearly all of the new neighbors here are
"workers".  They all enjoy mowing their own grass, having gardens, boiling
sap as well as fixing and building things.  Heck, one of them even has two
JD crawlers, dumptrucks and an airplane.  This one does not and should move
to a fancy suburb and do nothing, like they all tend to who live their lives
in them.  I was sort of considered weird in our old suburban neighborhood,
having a tractor in the garage and grease under my nails.  Looked a long
time for this place and have never regretted the move.
Thanks everyone for the words and thoughts.
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] The noise; the noise; the noise,noise, noise!


> Carl,
>
> A wise friend told me years ago that everyone should be granted at birth
the
> right to smack one little old lady once in their lifetime.  Of course the
> vast majority would never use their one shot, but these nagging little old
> ladies would be on better behavior.  It sounds to me your complaining
> neighbor should be included among these little old ladies.
>
> George Willer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 7:55 PM
> Subject: [AT] The noise; the noise; the noise,noise, noise!
>
>
> > 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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