[AT] Melting it all down.(copper is the new gold)

[charlie hill]

Rob one thing that folks don't understand is that there is danger in being 
on someones farm.  There are laws that require a farmer to post a sign if 
there is dangerous poison on a crop or on the land but it ONLY applies if 
hired labor is required to be in the area.  If no work is scheduled there is 
no requirement to post any warning and a bunch of reasons not to. 
Therefore, someone could wander into your field and come out dead and it 
would be their fault.

Years ago we logged out the woodline that boarders the fields.  There were a 
lot of nice old oak trees along the edge and I hated to cut them but they 
were in the way of equipment and they were sucking up tons of water so we 
had them cut.  There were lots of big limbs and tops left behind.  I put the 
word out in the neighborhood that anyone who wanted the wood for firewood 
was welcome to it.  They got it alright.  Every stick of it that was easy to 
cut up.  They left everything they didn't want, not where they found it in 
the woods but in the field where it was easier for them to run their saws. 
They also left their trash.  I don't mean the drink bottles and candy 
wrappers for the snacks the consumed while working.  I mean their trash from 
home. Bags of it.  Oh yeah they left the drink bottles and candy wrappers 
too.  I won't do that again.

Our farm is long and narrow and it had a road all the way down it along the 
woods and a road out to the highway at both ends and one in the middle. 
Soon after the wood experience I told the tenant farmer to cut up all the 
roads and tend the land all the way to the woodline.  Most of the time I 
can't even get in the back of the field myself now without 4wd and that is 
just fine with me.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Wilson" <rowilson at wildblue.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Melting it all down.(copper is the new gold)


> Back on the farm we lived on that my father in law owns he had a rather 
> odd
> thing happen. He stopped by and found a whole group of boy scouts set up
> camp. He asked the leader what they were doing and he said they were 
> having
> a weekend camp out. He asked him who owned the place and the guy says he
> didn't know. My father in law told him he did and to pack them up and get
> moving. The guy was ticked since he didn't understand what the problem 
> was.
> It's like that everywhere anymore. No one respects anyone's property or
> rights. My neighbor and his son were flying his son's new remote control
> airplane in this nice green field and enjoying the day. The farmer across
> the road comes over and asks the same as my father in law does about who
> owns the place. My neighbor actually thought no one did. The farmer said
> unless he wants pay for the wheat he's stomping on they better leave. The
> neighbor too was irritated but left.
> Rob
>
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