[AT] Re: NAA Grader Blade - Instant gratification

[Mark Greer]

If someone was thinking they'd run that pipeline along the highway access
and kill two birds with one stone (or at least only pi$$ of half as many
landowners).
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francis Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:27 AM
Subject: RE: [AT] Re: NAA Grader Blade - Instant gratification


>
> We have been watching that one pretty close... That is "supposed" to go
> about 4 miles north west of the farm. I hope it stays up there.
> They are also in the early stages of running a huge cross-country natural
> gas pipeline through just about the same distance south of the farm. They
> are building a local bypass right now (my road has been closed about a
week)
> that will pass within a half mile of the north west corner of the farm.
1500
> houses are being constructed on both sides of that bypass and the Garst
> Seeds research farm I used to manage about a mile across the field from me
> is being dug up all over and will have 2 lakes and a herd of new houses.
> That is in addition to the 1500 new houses we already knew about. The new
> Honda plant going up about 15 - 16 miles southeast of us has construction
> crews working 24-7 ripping up 1200 acres of farm land. I now understand
that
> a second plant is going up there next to it for another company that is a
> vendor for Honda. I spend a lot of time looking over my shoulder for fear
of
> getting a house dropped on me, Wizard of OZ style, while I work. A
railroad
> clips the corner of the farm that is on "the list" for an upgrade to a 150
> MPH line. God only knows where that will end up since they also are
talking
> bypassing the city with it. Next to it is an old traction line right of
way,
> which we acquired back some years ago, but it has a power company right of
> way on it that is still used. We have an old AT&T long line right of way
> across the farm and a few years ago they put a fiber optic line in next to
> it. Some years  ago they were set to run a huge feeder power line across
the
> south end of the farm but they found a bunch of bad concrete in the
nuclear
> plant they were building down on the Ohio and quit that one (for now).
> Another company wants to drill for natural gas on the farm but I'm balking
> over the wording that would also give them the right to drill for oil, dig
> for coal, copper, diamonds, chocolate chip cookies or anything else...
They
> are also allowed to come in and buy rights then just resell them to
anybody.
> No thanks.
> Remember back when you could just farm???
>
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live at
> all.
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana, USA
> robinson at svs.net