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09/20/2019 at 10:00 • Filed to: None
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The property next to ours is being logged. They’ve been running their equipment starting at 6:00 am, but until today, they’ve been starting far away from our house (and from others on the road) and working down closer to the homes later in the day. However, we’ve entered the log-processing phase, where they’re tossing trees around, cutting them, and chipping the brush with an ENORMOUS chipper, and still starting at 6:00. Actually 5:48 this morning they started the engines up.
This does not do the noise level justice - and by the way you can see the screen of our front door, this was taken from inside the house - an average level of 90 decibels :
This is going on 150' from my house. It’s only 200' to the mouth of the chipper. I tried yesterday to ask them to start at 6:30 but of course that went nowhere. I called the landowner from inside my front door this morning at 7:00 and I had to raise my voice to be heard over the noise. I was polite, but tried to convey the message that we are seriously unhappy. I’m sure there’s nothing they can do, but I just wanted them to know “Hey welcome to the neighborhood, you woke up my kids and are generally making our lives miserable, thanks.”
A nd yes, the town does have a noise ordinance, prohibiting such activity between the hours of... 10pm and 6am. So they’re legally fine.
They also helpfully pointed out to me that they were even closer to a house at their last job. “Oh, but did the land belong to the homeowner?” “Yes.” Well that’s a little different, don’t you think ? They also did not have to put the landing right where it is. There’s a huge field on the other side of the property that could have been used, instead of clearing an acre of forest right there next to our house to do the collecting and processing.
I will say, It is objectively entertaining watching logs get tossed around like toothpicks by this equipment. The sawblade on the log processing machine is like 4' in diameter and cuts through 12" oaks like a sharp knife through celery. Impressive, and cool to watch. Just... ugh. Hopefully this only lasts a couple weeks, as they claim. The longer hours they work, the sooner they’ll be done!
I’d love if they offered me a few of those logs for free, for firewood, you know, as a nice gesture “sorry for making a shit ton of noise have some free firewood.” But I’m sure they won’t, now that I made my displeasure known. Hey, maybe the landowner will think of that? Probably not.
facw
> functionoverfashion
09/20/2019 at 10:34 |
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Gah, why even have a noise ordinance if you are going to start it at 6AM?
ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> functionoverfashion
09/20/2019 at 10:37 |
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That grey Mini tho <3
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functionoverfashion
> facw
09/20/2019 at 10:51 |
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I think it’s more related to parties than to industrial noise, there’s really no industry to speak of in town. Logging and construction are the noisiest things that happen and they’re both temporary wherever they are. But logging also isn’t usually so close to homes. This is a bit unusual.
When we had our wedding we had to have permission to have the band play after 10pm.
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functionoverfashion
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
09/20/2019 at 10:52 |
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My wife loves it. I do too.
Not pictured: the ‘61 Ford, because it’s out back full of stone as part of my ongoing drainage project.
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ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
> functionoverfashion
09/20/2019 at 11:48 |
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Is it a clubman? I cant make out from that angel
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functionoverfashion
> ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability
09/20/2019 at 12:20 |
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Cooper S Hardtop 4/5 -door