Yuppie Neighbor (kinda long story)

jimva · Jul 28, 2009

Fella moved in up the road about a year ago on 5 acres of ground. Has his food plots for the wildlife, a couple goats and a few calves. Got his new holland boomer and so forth. Seemed to be a pretty decent guy until today. Wanted me to round bale 2 acres of pasture for his winter hay. No problem, Mowed the other day, raked today.

Pulled into the field this afternoon with the round baler, got out and preceeded to oil up the chains before baling. He asked "is that used motor oil" yep i says. The guy literally went in a screaming shut fit about how if any of that got on the ground it would kill his pasture, poision his animals, pollute his well,and if it rained tonight it would run off into the river (which is over a mile away) and on and on.

I politely told him that nothing would get on the ground, that i was only using enough to just get the chains wet and if he kept acting the way he was i would leave and he could find someone else to make his hay for him, especially since i was doing it for free. He calmed down a little bit.
I jump on the tractor and went to baling, he spent 15 mins crawling around on the ground, pulling grass back scratching around on the dirt to see if any oil did get on the ground where i had oiled up the chains.

Darndest thing i ever seen.

farmer101IL · Jul 28, 2009

Hmmmmm sounds like you need to make some money off of this guy!!
Tell him he needs to pay for your carbon credits for running that tractor of yours!!!!!!!!! LOL And he might want to send a check for his cows aahhhhhh passing gas!!!!!! Let's see and the cow dung that gets flushed into the river not to mention urine.

Farmer

ChrisinMO · Jul 28, 2009

I guess no one ever taught him to be polite. If I had a neighbor doing me such a favor, I certainly wouldn't act that way. I might even ask some questions about what he is doing and why.

Christopher

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2009

Because of guys like that there is no more good junkyards.Takes nerve to start complaining and yelling at someone who is helping you.This is not a good neighbor.Next time tell him get somebody else your running chains that might pollute.His crappy foreign car probably leaks oil anyhow.

ScottyHOMeY · Jul 28, 2009

Ayuh! I know the type. Next time (can't imagine anybody around here --except maybe for one-- would blame ya if ya weren't game for a next time) be sure to take new motor oil -- it's so much better for the soil, dontchya know and might be more to his likin'.

What a yutz!

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2009

I was haying on a place and was refueling my Ford NAA when the old guy came out screaming for me to stop and refuel out on the road in case I spilled any. Crazy ol' coot!

37 chief · Jul 28, 2009

I'll bet he drives a Hugo, which prpbably leaks more oil in a day than got on the ground from your oiled chins. It's a good thing I wasen't oiling the chins. My motto is if a little does a little good, a lot does a lot of good. Stan

Vito · Jul 28, 2009

Another beauty.

Vito

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2009

His next question (to me) would be wait a minute, what are you doing , where are you going, as I leave!

kyplowboy · Jul 28, 2009

Now you know what your dealing with. Next time tell him it's used cooking oil and try to make a few bucks off him.

And folks wander why I say I don't want any neigbors.

Dave

Phil in Pa · Jul 28, 2009

But predictable.
The uneducated masses have made environmentalism their new false idol.
No common sense allowed.

Gun guru · Jul 28, 2009

If I was you I would have "accidently" dropped some on the grass just to see him faint.

Sounds like this dumba$$ needs a dose of reality, oil comes from the ground, animals crap on the dirt, tractors belch smoke, and so on.

NCWayne · Jul 28, 2009

Man that guy would have $HIT if he had seen what I did today. I had to hone on the poppet valve bores on a BIG valve block (something like 30 inches long, 20 wide, and 18 thick solid steel) on a metal shear. Unfortunately the instillation was fairely new and there was no factory provision for draining the system neither upstream nor downstream the valve body so the only way to get the oil out was pull the poppets one at a time and let it flow. Fortunately with the application of ALOT of oil dry we were able to contain all of it on the concrete pad where the shear sets and, as such, get it cleaned up. I've got to admit it was the biggest 'spill' I've seen since Valdez...fortunately we had it contained so cleanup wasn't that big of a deal. Needless to say the custyomer plans to put provisions to drain the system in place now that
it's dry so this doesn't happen again should the block need work in the future.

I wish all of these environmental nuts would go back where ever they came from. It's funny to think that the majority of them have no idea that the states used to use oil to keep dust down on the road (why isn't every old road bed declaired a hazardous waste site if it was so bad?), don't have a clue how things like open chains, gears, etc get greased/oiled, and most have no idea how much oil their own vehicles can and do leak. I guess we'll just have to educate them one at a time when the opportunity arises........

TomTex · Jul 28, 2009

Simple solution. Dont go back. Tom

Clodbuster · Jul 28, 2009

Time and place for everything. I got really mad at someone who used a few gallons of used oil on the chains of a stack mover. Why? Because it was right in front of the walk-in door of the shop. What a mess. Plenty of room out back or anywhere else we did not have to walk or every guest would see and walk in.

Looks like you don't leave a big mess, but some do.

kyhayman · Jul 28, 2009

I'd have finished the job and not be back. But, as to oiling chains, adjusting tracks, and everything but fueling and that only if I have to I try to do at home out of sight and out of mind.

bison · Jul 28, 2009

There's crazy nut cases all over the planet.
last winter ,was a guy scooping up snow laced with antifreeze that had leaked under his semi overnight with a shovel into 5 gallon pails,for disposal at a hazardues waste plant.

He was ordered to do so,or faced a fine plus the cost of cleanup by the guys in the white suits and gasmasks.

This world is going bonkers.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2009

I wonder if he thought oil comes from the parts store, just like food comes from the grocery store?

buickanddeere · Jul 28, 2009

The poor guy means well but he is a "fish out of water".
Coming from the city where a piece of land too small to park & decent tractor and cultivator on costs 100-500 thousand $$$.And surrounded by teaming masses of people. To 5 acres is a shock. He's still in "over protective mode".
It's like parent with their 1st child protecting them from everything. By the time the 3rd or 4th kid arrives.The parents have relaxed. Same goes with land, the more you have. The less you worry.
He's also seen every hyped up and graphic display of pollution by the media on a "slow news day". Or from environmental groups who make their living scaring larger amounts of donations by showing scarier images.
If you moved in beside your city neighbour. Everybody around would immediately that you are an out of place rural hick. With no idea how to fit in and stay out of trouble.
It's easy to dislike or be intimidated by somebody with enough spare cash to purchase a rural retreat. Where everybody else busts their butt just to hang onto their rural property.

Mathias NY · Jul 28, 2009

You should ask him what he thinks they make roads out of?

Several years ago I was changing a power steering line on my truck at college. The auto-tech teacher saw that I had spilled some fluid on the gravel parking lot. He came out screaming that I had committed a sin against mother nature and made me use floor-dry to mop the oil up from the gravel. Some people just need to feel important I guess...

Don-Wi · Jul 28, 2009

SO what is he gonna do if he ever blows a hose on his wanna be tractor? Or if he breaks the transmission case while overworking it and looses all of the transmission oil?

Even where I've had major oil loss in the feild I haven't noticed bare spots.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Jul 28, 2009

On "Operation Repo" the other day they repo'ed a car from an environmentalist who started preaching about the truck they were driving was so bad for the environment. My response would have been something like if it weren't for people like you, people like me wouldn't need a big gas hogging truck.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 28, 2009

Not trying to argue with ya but hyd. fluid will kill grass and alfalfa. Done it several times. Had the hose on a 30' dump trailer blow just before the rock started to slide which was 3/4 of the way up. Came down slowly but shot oil out about 50' and covered an area about 50' wide too. Killed all the grass for the summer.

Don-Wi · Jul 28, 2009

And yet I went to a demo derby on Sunday where radiators were popping like ballons at a birthday party. All had dirty nasty green antifreeze coming out, and all the firefighters or any officials did was wet down the track some more as it dried up.

I'm sure plenty of oil was spilled too, as lots of engines blew, and I even saw atleast 5 rear axels come apart.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Jeff Oliver · Jul 28, 2009

Hehe I just read your post again and I noticed something that they guy said. He asked you if that was " used motor oil" and then went off about it. Was it ok to use NEW motor oil?? I mean does new oil not damage or pollute but used oil does?? LOL!!!

He'll learn eventually, maybe.

fixerupper · Jul 28, 2009

Don, someday he WILL blow a hose, and he'll call the EPA cause that's the proper thing to do, or at least he thinks so. After going through the EPA approved cleanup and monitoring he'll keep his mouth shut for the rest of his life. Jim

jimva · Jul 28, 2009

Yep, That was the first and the only time Iam be neighborly to that guy. Come to think of it I should have told him it was unused oil so it was safe.

If i see him again Ill let him know that if he gets any crap on his tractor tires he will have to buy new ones cause the smell will soak into those tires and he"ll never get rid of it. (couldnt resist)

gitrib · Jul 28, 2009

A few years ago there was a semi milk truck that been at pur farm and proceed to a main highway. A highway trooper came up behind him and the milk hose had dropped out andwas leaking milk. The trooper stopped him and would not let im move till he called in the haz-mat crew to see hat was leaking. On the side of the tanker it spelled out MILK. Maybe he could not read.
gitrib

kyplowboy · Jul 28, 2009

Once in a while I will read something on here that makes me laugh out loud. The comment about the smelly tires just did it. I had almost forgot'n that one.

Thank you for bring'n it back.

Dave

Nancy Howell · Jul 29, 2009

Made me laugh, too. I'll have to remember that one.

davpal · Jul 29, 2009

You should have told him that it's not that big of a deal because about 20 years ago his land was a landfill they used to bury radioactive waste on after they tore the refinery down!

Fawteen · Jul 29, 2009

I'dve just packed up and left right then and there.

Have before, no doubt will again.

Richard G. · Jul 29, 2009

Wonder how much oil washes into creeks from a Super Wal-Mart parking lot each time it rains?

Anonymous-0 · Jul 29, 2009

Richard, don't tell the wacko crowd that asphalt is made from oil as they will soon start a campaign against asphalt. Pelousy will pass a bill outlawing asphalt. Bulwahma will preach about how the rich must be taxed to control asphalt.

NEKS · Jul 29, 2009

The EPA would be happy with that guy. He thinks like they want the rest of us to think. Went to Aunts funeral a while back, talking to a younger cousin and ask him what he did. He said I am a environmentalist. I said you are the kind of guy that scares the ?ell out of me. Knowing his background. Always live in a big city, went to college and now knows it all.

LEH · Jul 29, 2009

What a great way to get rid of the jerk!!! Use their own stupidity against them. Let them fight with themselves!!! Seen those kind often when they move out from town. We are an Ag. District under Ohio's Ag District law. Makes it tough for them to sue over stupid crap.

JML755 · Jul 29, 2009

(quoted from post at 20:55:45 07/28/09)
I wish all of these environmental nuts would go back where ever they came from. It's funny to think that the majority of them have no idea that the states used to use oil to keep dust down on the road (why isn't every old road bed declaired a hazardous waste site if it was so bad?), don't have a clue how things like open chains, gears, etc get greased/oiled, and most have no idea how much oil their own vehicles can and do leak. I guess we'll just have to educate them one at a time when the opportunity arises........

Agree 100%. The thing that has me scratching my head is that everyone I talk to or read on forums like this agrees that the environmental lobby is wacko and that, in general, we have lost our common sense when it comes to the environment. The tree-huggers are a small, vocal minority, yet it seems that our politicians give them undue attention. I'd love to see nuclear power plants built in every state to provide clean electric power. Instead, we're focused on wind turbines and solar panels that only are practical when coupled with heavy government subsidies (OUR MONEY). I guess I'd like to see a politician run for office somewhere, stand up and give the finger to the environmental lobbies. I bet they would be elected anywhere in the country (except for San Francisco and environs, LOL).

It brings to mind the discussion with a county drain official a while back where he said a pipe that I installed to more efficiently direct rainwater from a field along my driveway into a County drain was illegal. At first he said I was "polluting" the drain but my reaction of "what the h*ll are you talking about, it's RAINWATER" caused him to focus on the fact that I hadn't pulled a permit.

dieseldoc · Jul 29, 2009

People like that make me want to back the manure truck up to their porch and unload 4000 gallons on their house. It would even be better if they opened up the door to come out and see what was going on. then as I am pulling out of yard I would honk the horn and yell welcome to the neighborhood.

dieseldoc · Jul 29, 2009

milk is considered hazzardous if it is spilled.Dont understand why.I mean its MILK

Gary Mckenzie · Jul 29, 2009

Milk can cause a large fish kill if a spill gets into a stream, river, etc. I don"t know the science of it, but have seen it happen. Also, the fat content remains after it dries and can make a road very slippery. But there are always folks that can make a mountain out of a molehill! Do you think people will ever realize that farmers are the true enviromentalists? Farmers that don"t care for their land usually aren"t farmers long.

jbp · Jul 29, 2009

It seems that the more educated people become, the less common sense they show,at least thats the way it seems to work in my family. Some people are educated beyond their intelligence.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 29, 2009

What no one has mentioned is the fact that the majority of the wanna-bee 'farmers', yuppies, and small time gardeners that post on this site are just as ignorant and useless as he is.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 29, 2009

People are afraid of the IRS. When the EPA is done with you,you will wish it was the IRS that you where dealing with.

tjdub · Jul 29, 2009

You'll have to tell him that it was organic used motor oil. Technically, petroleum is made up of organic compounds you know.

rrlund · Jul 29, 2009

It's no different with those d@mned vegans. They make up 2.5% of the population,yet you'd think they were a 99.99% majority.

Don-Wi · Jul 29, 2009

That's a bit larger of a spill than I've ever had. Also sounds like it was on a lawn so the soil wasn't getting worked up.

I blew a hose once on the loader trying to pull out a clothesline pole for my brother, and it sprayed all over the pine tree that was right next to the tractor. Tree turned out fine. No dead spots in the lawn either. He did hose it down some to try rinsing the oil off the tree, but other than that I don't think he did much of anything.

Donovan from Wisconsin

RodinNS · Jul 30, 2009

Go home. Don't go back.
Really. Don't go back.
That's got trouble written ALL over it.

Rod

Will Herring · Jul 30, 2009

Everybody thinks that they're a farmer when they have 5 acres of ground and a little tractor anymore. Those of us that grew up around farming have no idea why all these yuppies are getting into it, either.

Better to pour used motor oil on your baler chains than dumping it in a landfill. :roll:

Shetland Sheepdog · Jul 31, 2009

Not only that, he's prolly got a [b:fe7caa6cb7][i:fe7caa6cb7][u:fe7caa6cb7]HOT TOP[/u:fe7caa6cb7][/i:fe7caa6cb7][/b:fe7caa6cb7] driveway! An' we ALL know what hot top is! ROFL

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