Posted by RBoots on April 06, 2016 at 18:04:21 from (173.241.113.102):
Use county roads as headlands so you don't pack YOUR field, tearing up the road in the process? Plant corn as tight as you can to an intersection, just to get that extra little bit? Clean mud off the road if YOU leave an excessive amount on the road? Have had to park at the end of your mile, and walk home because a 4X4 truck can't get down a road that a foreign dairy has been hauling manure on all day with a dualled up articulating Case IH? Chisel plow a foot off the edge of the road to make your rows come out right? Leave your chisel plow down when you cross a gravel road to your other field?
In defense of Goose a bit further down, I wonder how some operate and how conditions are in your locale. I'm a farmer, so don't call me a citiot, but here is how it is in MI. A farmer can haul full weight loads whenever he wants as long as it is a farm commodity, feed, manure, sand, etc. Most of the smaller guys around are a bit more respectful and DON'T do that, even though the right to farm act protects them. They know the roads weren't made for a set of super trains, they were made for smaller trucks, and they also know if they help tear up the road, it isn't going to help the township fix it, since they don't have to money to fix it anyway. I see lots of farmers that tear up a foot of the road on each side, what does it hurt to leave a foot or two of grass. I have also seen cars stuck in the edge of those fields where the gravel settles down and looks like road, but is just mush with no base. If a foot along a road makes or breaks you, you probably have other things to worry about. After I stuck the semi in a field last fall, and pulled out on the road, leaving mud all over, I went home and got a shovel and scraped it off. A young man near where onefarmer lives was killed a few years back at a 4 corn corner. I like to keep 15' of grass to mow at our intersection so that people can see oncoming cars. If I plant it too close, I'm not going to complain if the county mows it back, it's not worth it. I have seen many times in the northwest corner of my county, a farmer that leaves his chisel plow or disc down across the road. Oops, forgot to pick it up. Well, when you do it 3 or 4 times in a mile, maybe your memory isn't so good. I don't like to tear things up that other people use too, I don't turn every headland turn on the road. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I have no use for the foreign dairies in this county. There is a road in Gratiot county called Buchanan Rd. Was a very nice paved road about 15ish years ago. It was an old paved road, but holding up great. Then along came a dairy farmer from Europe for the tax breaks. They haul more manure in the big tri axle tankers than with the semis. They can't get in trouble with a tractor drawn tanker, it can't be overweight. And even though they can still haul full weight loads when frost laws are on for everyone else, that's just not enough, and they don't want to pay overweight tickets for the trucks. They will use big 4 wheel tractors with those tankers until they have the roads so turned inside out that you sometimes can't get down them with a 4wd pickup, certainly not a car. Once the road gets so bad it slow down their process, they move to a different route, or a different field, then complain that the roads need to be fixed. That Buchanan road now has about a 10-12% crown to it as the tankers hauling down it have pushed the edge of the road down a foot or more, squeezing the base out from under it and making a berm equally as high along the edge of the road, now holding water. Take the berm off if you want, it'll be back in a few months. Pretty much everybody on that road and the haul routes to that road where there well before the dairy. When the farm owner kept complaining that the bad roads were slowing down his farm, the township asked if he would like to help pay to fix the road and make it a class A road. His response, "NO. I am entitled to use this road, you are responsible for fixing it". Wheeler Twp tried to fight a 10,000 head foreign dairy from being started there, after seeing what they do to the roads around the other ones, they knew they couldn't afford to fix the roads once the dairies destroy them. Even though the township voted unanimously NO in favor of allowing the dairy to build, they couldn't stop it, the right to farm act prevailed once again and they have been destroying things for about 4 years at that location now. This is a very rural location. Want to sell your home to get away from the farm? You can't, property values are down so far because of the bad roads, constant truck traffic, etc, you won't have much luck unless you give it away. So how would you like to leave for work in the morning, and when you get home you have to park at the end of your mile and walk home due to someone that came in after you were there? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm just pointing out differences in my area. There IS a difference in being a respectful citizen and farmer, and NOT being respectful to others. I like to treat others how I would like to be treated, even if it does sometimes take a bit longer. I get along with pretty much all of my neighbors and I don't mind that. It would bother me if someone I knew wouldn't wave to me on purpose.
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