Your comment about driving on unsalted roads really hit home Wes. You could have taken the words right out of my mouth. From 17 until 22 I had to travel 12 miles over hills on untreated roads to go to work. On a motorbike and a car. I didn't fall off, or crash....probably why I can still drive, when most, it seems can't.
Don't know if this helps at all but I just got done with a Power Company this spring. They are running new transmission lines near me. Well was suppose to split my 160 acre farm in half. Now it going north of me, they found someone that would take less money. Ameren here in IL is paying $15,000 an acre for easement, lump sum payment and with do some work. Also theirs a IRS tax law 1033 Eminent Domain you can have 3 years before you have to pay taxes on the money you get. But to get it you need a letter from the Company they could use eminent domain if necessary. I had a deal for a new road and some erosion work along the river bank. I guess they figure my neighbor north of me was a cheaper date. Good Luck.
Hooray for story time!!! Everyone has got at least a couple, wonder what kind of stories our grandkids are gonna be tellin' in 50 years from now?? Or is there going to even be anyone left to tell a story???
Excellent "out of breath" story/video. Pipeline companies should compensate landowners with a significant lease payment on the front end, including damage to property and a monthly stipend. There's got to be like a gazillion ticks in all of that timber behind you btw.
Love it !! I am 43 when I was 10 I had 2 broken arms with 3 breaks in one and 2 in the other it was 48 hours before I went to hospital , sounds like pretty standard practice of pearents back in the day lol
Thanks for the story very cool. You sure have nice country roads ,nothing like that down here in south Mississippi. I sure wish I was there .Leaves changing yet?
This may sound strange but in Alaska it has been determined that salting the roads is a greater hazard than the ice. Moose are attracted to the salt and they have no fear of cars.
trivia: when I broke my arm the second to the last time. The hospital in York Nebraska put a splint on it and sent me home to Iowa. The bone doctor in Iowa made me wait until the swelling went down before the put a cast on. That happened 3 days after Nebraska. I had X Rays in Nebraska that were sent to the doctro in Iowa so it wasnt like I went without care. It may be that your folks called the hospital to ask the nurse. Things were done differently in small towns (like this one) doctors gave advice over the phone and didnt drive in to the hospital on a weekend unless a life was in jepardy
He said they moved it from the power line to between his parents house and barn. Sounds like a case of (I'll show you!). I feel bad for anybody that has to deal with a pipeline going through their property. The powers that be have existing ROW's to run pipe lines through without disrupting private property. Sadly, they could care less.
Do you and CotonTop3 shop at the same bright lime green shirt store? Thanx love your videos & stories from the left coast near the Crapitol of California Gene
When i was 10, I broke one of the bones in the top of my foot, my parents never took me to the hospital, had to heal on it's own. The break was oly confirmed when i got an xray as an adult with the misaligned fused together bone showing up.
Cool vid. Great story. Do y'all have eminent domain laws in NJ that the pipe line could use again you? We have Farmland Protection through ag districts in our zoning here. Doesn't stop it completely but it requires them to hold 3 more hearings just on that alone which costs money and a lot of time.
...I don't know what's going thru the pipeline, but I used to hear stories about back-in-day, when they crossed your land you could get free product...check into it...maybe you're in a good location for a cell tower?...anything to help yer bottom line
Wes, you talked about getting hit by a vehicle at the start of the story.........you are wearing faded green that matches the trees. Time for blaze orange ?
runner sleds.riding on top of snow after ice storm. pipe line running with power lines .wtf now by house. i can imagin.had neighbor move in from city.hated farms.that wasnt fun.lawyers ect.thank goodness for rite to farm law here. but that was after spending thousands.
fastrac89 well I'm not against trump per say. But it's a good thing we live in a free society where people have the freedom to chose who they would like to vote for and the freedom to project their opinions.
See we really dont own the land we just think we do. They put gigantic high tension power transition towers in the very middle of the neighbors 4000 acres and there is nothing they could do about it other than made a lawyer very nice chunk of change. If I remember correctly it was in New Jersey that farms were taken under eminent domain just because the area could generate more tax dollars if developed.
You Sir Mr. Farmer, Need to realize, We +You are old, We get tired weather we are talking and walking or just being ourselves, they call Us elderly and that's OK, because We are. Sincerely, NAWALT.
My friend I have a funny story for you . your more then welcome to share this . Well now that it is Autumn and the leaves are starting to change we have city slickers who come out here to take photos of the farms and our fields and it's rather annoying. anyway we bind our corn stalks up and put them up into shocks to dry in the field . well this car pulls over on the side of the road . A lady and a guy get out and start taken photos of me while I'm corn binding . my fiance is putting the Corn stalks up into shocks while I'm binding . then they wave her over . she talks to them and they said those are beautiful hay stacks . hay stacks rilly . my fiance proceeds to tell them no THIER corn shocks . they got into an argument with her and kept saying no that's hay . mind you she finds out their from New York city and they love to visit during the fall and they also kept telling her no that's hay . while she repeated no THIER corn stalks . the couple was like no that's hay . after this went on for a few minutes my fiance said well I have to get back to work . then they finally got into their car and drove off with their New York Plates . o brother city slickers . Now I love how they try to tell us what crop were harvesting and telling us that it's hay and not corn like were the farmers here . not you city folk . you think food comes from a Grocery store for crying out loud . it was quite funny however but annoying at the same time . People you got to love em . Especially when THIER not from here and don't have a clue what anything is other than its beautiful out in the country.
seems like the spite factor .. question is how would they like that going through their own backyard. I am usually for industry however not if they just being vindictive jerks sorry you gotta fight em on this stupid
never said wes was the stupid one.. I said this was stupid of the the pipeline company to locate near people homes Like I said this is stupid on their part seems like they would have more sense from a liability standpoint to not wish to to place any kind of pipeline near residences of any type.... in the neighbor hood I grew up in we had a petroleum distribution line go through it has been there since the 60's the lines are starting to need maintenance. foot even in Alabama where I now reside we just had a petroleum pipeline rupture spilling 250,000 gallons of fuel I cant see where it would be any good sense to locate any pipeline including water near any type of structure
