[AT] Snow

[Cecil Bearden]

You should be around here in central OK, NW of OKC.  Land speculators 
have raised the price of undeveloped land to $7k per acre.  I try to 
lease some land to hay for sale to horse owners.  I got one 160acre 
plot, but the other 40 acre one I lost the hay crop to the owner who 
hired a guy to mow the place before the fourth of JULY.  He was worried 
about fire.  actually he was worried about not selling a lot on the 
place..  I have tried to cut many small 10 to 20 acre fields for hay 
last summer.  These people would rather pay someone to cut it down than 
allow a guy to utilize it for hay.   I even tried to pay a fee for the 
grass and they would rather someone cut it down.

I am waiting on the snow again.  This time I am prepared.  I got my 
Caterpillar 112F road grader in here last night.  It is an ex military 
one and really has had good care taken of it for the last 30 years.  It 
was shedded and only used to grade some access roads on the Veterans 
center in Eastern OK..  If I can get one of the old Hghway Dept 
snowplows mounted on the front of it, I can really have some fun.

In this part of OK, the wind is always 5 to 15mph  and this year it is 
colder than I ever remember.  I have worked outside for many years and 
this time i just can't seem to stand it.  This wind is like a knife 
cutting at the back of your neck constantly.  I have looked at the wind 
generator location map and I am in a very small area that is listed as 
good.  I contacted a small wind generator company and they would not 
talk to me,  The JD dealer near here is selling wind generators but they 
are in the $30k range..  I need something for $5k and do it yourself.. 
If I can get some type of biomass boiler, I can cut a lot of the 
electric bills for this heat pump.

Cecil inOKla

Larry Goss wrote:
> You bring up an
> interesting point, Bob -- mineral rights.  In the last 46 years of land
> ownership, I have never owned any property that included the mineral
> rights.  It has always been reserved by coal, gas, oil, or other mining
> companies, and was often sold or leased decades prior to when I
> purchased the property.  I grew up on a farm where we owned the mineral
> rights.  I thought everyone lived that way.  How naive I was.
> 
> Larry
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob McNitt <nysports at frontiernet.net>
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 19:20
> Subject: Re: [AT] Snow
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> 
>> Farmer -
>>
>> In many areas laying over the massive shale formations 
>> containing 
>> natural gas, the price of once good agricultural land is 
>> skyrocketing as 
>> buyers with deep pockets hope to get in on the royalties of 
>> having gas 
>> wells or pipelines on the land. Of course this also raises 
>> assessed 
>> values and land and school taxes. Common folks seeking to buy a 
>> piece of 
>> rural land to farm on, retire on or maybe just escape the cities 
>> are 
>> being left in the dust of the natural gas drilling craze. 
>> Farmers in the 
>> prime shale areas are being increasingly tempted to sell to 
>> speculators 
>> that are willing to pay top dollar for larger acreages they can 
>> then 
>> lease as well clause in an agreement that allows them to sell 
>> portions 
>> off for cluster development projects. I'm afraid if this keeps 
>> up, we'll 
>> soon be importing almost all of our food stuffs and the only 
>> places 
>> you'll see farm tractors and equipment will be in museums.
>>
>> Bob
>>
> 
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