Rhode Island Surveyors Beware

Holy sh.., um I mean Holy Cow, that's pretty funny. 😀

32å¡54'40.62"N, 95å¡ 3'0.22"W

The two large brown areas are the stockpile location of Pilgrim's pure chicken dun piles after they have been cleared of feathers and other stuff.
This picture was taken in December after the stockpiles have been delivered to most hay fields all across NE Texas and beyond.
Around Pittsburg Tx there is pretty much the most dense amount of houses that are 60ft wide and 550ft long.
The piles are about 50ft tall by summers end.

[USER=81]@A Harris[/USER]

I'm not sure I even want to know, but I wonder whats in the brown "lake" just West of the chicken houses?

If I were the vindictive neighbor I might move that pile on the wedding day. You know take my manure loader and stir up that pile of s**t, load it in my manure spreader and put it on the nearest fields. Around here and in most places there are setback requirements for manure piles, but any field under agriculture is OK to spread manure.

It the wedding man wants to claim his land is a farm, then that is the atmosphere his guests should expect.

As an aside when my father was a boy on the farm an elderly man from the nearby town who had asthma would pay my father to let him come and stand in the barn as they hand shoveled out the manure. The pungent aroma cleared his sinuses. Having worked on farms, in a city sewer plant and in a steel company coke works, I much preferred the farm smell.

Paul in PA

FL/GA PLS., post: 396288, member: 379 wrote: [USER=81]@A Harris[/USER]

I'm not sure I even want to know, but I wonder whats in the brown "lake" just West of the chicken houses?

Dunno...but my daddy did teach me a long time what the "white stuff" in chicken crap was...;)

I've actually surveyed both of them, first as part of the original lot cut then as an additional subdivision on the "wedding" lot. Keep in mind neither of these properties are real farms, they're both zoned as F (farm) lots but they each have million dollar houses on them and neither of them farm. One uses the property as a hay lot to make more than 5k /yr and the other has recently started leasing part of his lot as basically chicken storage. They both have more money than sense.

Years ago in the Ozarks, I heard of rural landowners who would sel off a few acres for a farmette or a landowner who was not pleased with a new neighbor so they would build a chicken house near the property line to force the new neighbors to sell for a loss.
Pretty fugged up IMO

http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20160729/how-can-you-do-this-exeter-landowners-plans-foiled-again

Here's another article with some details .looks like there are some politics involved in the mix
It appears that there is a new state law that gives him the right. Recently there was a legal situation where state law overruled local zoning laws.

[USER=1652]@alphasurv[/USER]

Thanks for filling us in a bit on this story. I had wondered if this was a case of "the rich" vs "the rich". There are places where 32 acres can legitimately be called a farm such as asparagus or dill farming, but labeling something as a farm so the effective property tax rate is tremendously lower than it would be otherwise borders on criminal behavior endorsed by the "good old boy" crowd.

alphasurv, post: 396381, member: 1652 wrote: They both have more money than sense.

From my perspective I think they both have money and financial savvy. To have a $1m house on a parcel zoned agricultural, and thus receive the real estate tax benefit, is perfectly legal and makes financial sense to me. 😉