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

[pga2 at hot1.net]

I think you handled it just fine, Carl. Probably a lot better than I would have.
Sounds to me like you could only satisfy him by never making a sound of any kind.

Phil

> 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