[AT] Re: NAA Grader Blade - Instant gratification

[charlie hill]

I'm not so sure about that Mark.  For one thing a natural gas line needs to 
be run where there is the minimum chance someone will dig a hole in it and 
that's not along a road.  Second, it's pretty expensive stuff to run and a 
straight line from point A to point B is the most economical way to get it 
done.  They just brought a new natural gas line into our area.  I guess it 
was a hassle for land owners while it was going in but to be honest I wish 
they had wanted to go across our place.  The line is burried deep, they put 
most of it in during the winter when nothing is going on in the field and 
they pay you for it.  They put it deep, below any subsoiler you would run, 
and once it's down there it's pretty much a non issue.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Greer" <greerfam at raex.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] Re: NAA Grader Blade - Instant gratification


> 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
>
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