[AT] OT stamping press pits

[szabelski at wildblue.net]

Just did a quick search on the internet and it appears the utility no longer has the aforementioned program going on.

Carl
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From: szabelski at wildblue.net
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Sent: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:46:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [AT] OT stamping press pits

In our township they passed an ordnance that requires you to have a minimum of 10 acres in order to build, unless the property was smaller than that prior to the passing of the ordnance. If it was, you can build on it. This was done to keep developers from coming in and cramming 20 Houses on a 10 acre parcel.

In addition, here in Michigan, the local power utility has (had???) a program to slow down urban sprawl and keep the power consumption from getting out of hand. If you have a large parcel of land that you are not farming, you can put that land into a land bank with the utility. They will plant the property with trees and you agree not to do any development on the property for something like the next 50 or 100 years. Your heirs would be legally bound by this agreement. Don’t know how taxes are handled. If I remember right, you need something like 100 acres to participate.

Can’t say how successful they’ve been with this to date.

Carl
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From: Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com>
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Sent: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 17:13:25 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [AT] OT stamping press pits

Hi Farmer,
I live in Michigan, and here, provided the farm has been in existence
long enough, you can have it declared a Centennial Farm. What it boils
down to is it can be sold, but must remain in farming of some sort, and
not made into a subdivision. There are also tax incentives if I'm not
mistaken.

Mike M

On 12/11/2019 5:00 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> I have done my share of "temporary" installations that may have been a
> little shaky as is common for old school farmers but my general plan
> most of my life has been to do things "code +" or to be more
> technical, "Hell for stout"...  😀
> I do find myself being less concerned these days about making sure
> that what I do will last 100 years. I'm still optimistic enough to
> pretend that I still need a 5 year plan but my old concept of a 20
> year plan doesn't carry a lot of weight.
> There are several reasons for that. The first is pretty obvious, one
> of those other reasons is that the farm I put my blood, sweat and
> tears in since 1951, which was a couple of miles out in the country is
> now only about a quarter mile across a creek from a rapidly moving
> city limits... Land around me that I grew up farming either as rented
> land or as custom work is now infested with houses... The chances of
> this place falling victim to the bulldozers just keeps increasing. In
> recent years the words "eminent domain" are getting tossed around more
> and more freely. (shrug)...
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:40 AM Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com
> <mailto:soffiler at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Service pits are just pits.  Stamping press pits support very
>     large, very heavy equipment that creates high shock and vibration
>     in service, enough to literally shake the ground, hence the
>     recommendation for a soil study.
>
>     SO
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>     On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:17 AM Aaron Dickinson
>     <a_dickinson at att.net <mailto:a_dickinson at att.net>> wrote:
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>         I supect most service pits are shallow enough to not require a
>         geotechnical report, however any building project’s foundation
>         design (including service pits) is based on soil bearing
>         capacity (at residential level often done by visiual or
>         typical for area). When it doubt build for the lesser bearing.
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>         *From:* James Peck <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>
>         *Sent:* ‎Wednesday‎, ‎December‎ ‎11‎, ‎2019 ‎12‎:‎36‎ ‎AM
>         *To:* Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
>         <mailto:at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
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>         I believe Cecil mentioned he was involved with things
>         geotechnical. This talks about having a geotechnical report
>         before designing a stamping press pit.
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>         https://www.stampingjournal-digital.com/stampingjournal/20191112/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=1&folio=26#pg26
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>         I wonder if such a report is used in designing tractor
>         dealership service shops.
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