Finally got out behind the barn level enough to cut

Philip d

Well-known Member
Normally there’s high tractor traffic behind the barn and it gets torn up when it’s wet. I spent free time over the last year leveling topsoil picking rock and the usual trying to get it that I can keep it looking better. Today was the first go with the lawn tractor and I’m hoping after the next couple of cuts it’ll look half decent. We’ve always been able to do the front yard but in back was a free for all. I finished moving everything that will fit into the old pole barn and freed up enough space in the Quonset I can get pretty much everything we have under roof minus a 40 yr old 51’ grain augger.
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It is a good feeling to get things shaped up, might want to hit that good with 24D this fall, then sow in grass seed later.
 
A couple of them are, they bring a little income but only a fraction of what they used to. Apparently markets have lowered? Other than that not really much opinion one way or the other
 
Thanks for the reply philip.

I bought my farm 20 years ago. It has both a gas and an electric right of way across it. I think that the previous owner(s) got some kind of revenue from them when they were first installed, I haven't ever received any kind of compensation. In fact they are both somewhat of an inconvenience.

Tom in TN
 
My house is on 3 acres(MI). It was part of a 12 acre parcel that was divided into 4 lots. Before the split(1968), the gas company paid $41 dollars for a 66' easement across the 12 acres for a 42" gas main. In 2000, they decided to put a second 42" main in the easement. Because the original easement was for one gas main, they had to repurchase the easement and also a temporary 33' work easement. Long story short, by the time I finally signed off on the work, they paid me just shy of $19,000 to cross my 3 acres. There is no annual income from the easement.
 
Blackhole,

That sounds like good money. One of the inconveniences of my gas line right of way is that I'm not supposed to build a fenceline across any portion of it. Now, the fact is, I have built electric fences across a couple of places but I used step in fence posts and installed a gate just off the fenceline. The company didn't like it but the guy who found out about the fence and came out to inspect it was very understanding. He just looked the other way.

Tom in TN
 


During the process of selling the family place I looked up the deed which showed that around 1945, shortly before my parents bought the lot from him, my uncle sold an easement for a 345 KV right of way for $1.00. It crossed approx. .4 miles, mostly wooded.
 
That is a good idea, there’s likeky close to an acre of extra lawn to cut now, it’d be a lot faster to cut if it’s smoother
 

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