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john in la
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My parents own 2 city lots that no one has ever set foot on. They bought them years ago in the hopes that one day the streets would be put in and a new subdivision would be built.
That will never happen now because of wetlands conservation. It would take a survey crew several days just to mark the corners of the lots because they are only accessible by air boat.
That will never happen now because of wetlands conservation. It would take a survey crew several days just to mark the corners of the lots because they are only accessible by air boat.
Pair-a-dice farm
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I never have personally but I rented 200 acres from a cousin that he had never seen before I rented it. He was a real estate investor and owned 52,000 acres in 4 states.
Ken Macfarlane
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I've not seen parts of my woodlot but its just so dense where the regrowth it, you'd have to walk a 6 ft grid to see it all. In the 35 acres the largest spot I haven't looked is maybe 250 ft x 500 ft? It will be another 20 years before its ready to cut.
Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
We have 3 40's that we have never been to the back 40, it's pretty wet and has medium size spruce and tamarack on it. The other two 40's have an old logging trail into them and about every 3 years it gets dry enough to mow with the brush cutter. My father was logging there when he bought his first chainsaw in about 1956. Problem was one of the later lumberjacks didn't realize the importance of adding oil to the gas, and that was the end of the Pioneer! That saw had a swivel joint between the carburetor/gas tank and the engine so for falling the fuel system could stay right side up. He bought Pioneers for a few years and then switched to Homelite.
Ted in NE-OH
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Mother in law owned 3 lots far out on Long Island (East Hampton), her father bought them back in the twenty's out of a magazine. I went and looked them up in the 90's as no one had ever see them. Turned out to be in the middle of an unbuilt subdivision. City said I would have to build a road and that all three lots together were not big enough the build a house on.
I dunno, I own nearly a thousand acres of cropland, which I have rented out since 1997 because, at that time, the health and deaths of family members required my full attention.
For all the hours I spent working that land prior to renting it out, most of it I have not set foot on in 16 or 17 years!
For all the hours I spent working that land prior to renting it out, most of it I have not set foot on in 16 or 17 years!
I own 390 acres of which 230 is bush or more properly moose pasture. There is at least 100 acres of that moose pasture that I have never set foot on in 26 years. However if I tried I would sink to my eyeballs in the black muck. We call it loon crap, well, something like that anyway.
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
Last spring I was explaining to the boss how to find a couple creek crossings on a rented 1200 acre pasture, got the feeling he didn't know what I was talking about. He's never been clear around it. I think he's rented it for 10 years or more now.
There's 3 major creeks and 4 places to cross, at the one end you have to go out across the neighbor's to the road, I haven't found a place to make a crossing out that way without heavy equipment.
There's a spot near the north end that with a little shovel work can be a decent crossing on the main channel. There's only one other place to cross it and 1 place to cross the north fork. It was the road from horse-and-buggy days. You can still follow the road across that pasture, into the neighbor's to cross the creek, back into this one through an old homestead, around another creek, and back to the property line again, where it turns into a driveway.
There's 3 major creeks and 4 places to cross, at the one end you have to go out across the neighbor's to the road, I haven't found a place to make a crossing out that way without heavy equipment.
There's a spot near the north end that with a little shovel work can be a decent crossing on the main channel. There's only one other place to cross it and 1 place to cross the north fork. It was the road from horse-and-buggy days. You can still follow the road across that pasture, into the neighbor's to cross the creek, back into this one through an old homestead, around another creek, and back to the property line again, where it turns into a driveway.
jennifer408
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we have 113 acres. i have never seen the back 40 because the road is in disrepair and i ain't walking up a big hill just to go see it. DH walks over there all the time, he's gonna fix the road this summer so i can drive a tractor back there.
Dan T in MO
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I only have 24 acres. But there is one corner the brush is so thick I'm not sure daylight has ever gotten in there.
Eldon (WA)
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My dad used to say of a neighbor....he doesn't want all the land, just that that touches his.....
Fergienewbee
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We have 80 acres and I have walked it all. The back 40 I walk less often. I need to make a two-track to get back there. of wood to cut up.
Larry
Larry
Traditional Farmer
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- Virginia
Not going over all your land a couple times a year is a good way to loose some of it to Adverse Possession or have a Drug operation on your property.
DaninKansas
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Still? More like a meth lab - especially in Kentucky.
2 Old 2 care
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Just for your own sake....Realize this. There are a few replies below from people who seriously need to re-apply the tin foil on their hats.
formenwhogrow
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I would hardly call someone crazy for raising the notion that someone could have a patch of Kentucky's #1 cash crop (mary jane) growing on his land or even a meth lab for that matter and not realize it. 400 ac is A LOT of real estate, especially if it is hilly, wooded terrain. BIG difference between 400 acres of hilly wood land and a half section of Iowa farm ground.
I bought a 40 with some swampy on it, I make hay on the 8 acres now if its dry enough but I didnt go on it the first 18 months we owned it. Can see all of the 8 acres from the road, and I circle it, but didnt actually cover it for over a year.
I got a 5 acre wood lot that is landlocked, haven't been to it for 3 years now. Kinda difficult, access is over a distant neighbors fields so not during summer, and fall so many hunters criss cross that area don't want to be there, leaves winter and we've ad some rough winters, its over a half mile hike through plowed fields as well as neighbors yard, the. Through the woods...
Couple years ago as I was field cultivating, I wondered how many square inches of the farm I've actually been directly over. Decades of farming, round after round, started with 2 bottom plow and similar sized equipment, rock picking, all the trips over in a year, wonder how it would sort out.
Paul
I got a 5 acre wood lot that is landlocked, haven't been to it for 3 years now. Kinda difficult, access is over a distant neighbors fields so not during summer, and fall so many hunters criss cross that area don't want to be there, leaves winter and we've ad some rough winters, its over a half mile hike through plowed fields as well as neighbors yard, the. Through the woods...
Couple years ago as I was field cultivating, I wondered how many square inches of the farm I've actually been directly over. Decades of farming, round after round, started with 2 bottom plow and similar sized equipment, rock picking, all the trips over in a year, wonder how it would sort out.
Paul
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
Yep on the Meth labs and the landowner is responsible for the clean up costs which can be considerable.
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