Did a survey last fall, not 1/2 mile from home to facilitate a real estate closing. Client wanted to know where his corners were and his realtor was desperate to close. Another surveyor referred them to me and when I asked when they needed it and they said by the weekend, I chuckled and my killer instinct kicked in. It will cost, and it did, and they paid.
Fast forward. Client calls last week and needs the lines staked. No problem.
Ask him what he has planned.
A pig farm.
[sarcasm]Lovely. [/sarcasm]
Thank goodness I live up wind. The behavioral center for troubled teens next door? Not so lucky. Sucks to be them. :pinch:
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
If you don't want a pig farm, then you have to spell it out. NO PIG FARMS.
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Which leaves me to think. Some people of middle eastern decent may not like pigs, but they may like goats. So, if you had a clause, NO GOATS, would that be discrimination? It's an odd world.
N
I worked on a number of county bridge projects a few years ago up in the Oklahoma Panhandle. There are some huge hog farms up there that go on forever...
I guess that area is a good place for them because of the sparse population. My GAWD those places can reek. There were days we couldn't hardly stand it if the wind was right. That kind of smell could drive a starving coyote away from a raw T-bone...:pinch:
I've been near pig farms, chicken farms, and the City of Memphis sewer treatment plant. I'll take the treatment plant.
It's just ammonia, boys. Get used to it.
Last two years of college I lived about one block from the big dairy barn complex on campus. Occasionally, I would overhear a neighbor complaining in our neat little subdivision. No one appreciated my comment that cows moved there about 1875. The stupid humans occupying the subdivision came along about 70 years later. I told them the cows had first rights to the neighborhood.
The worst stinkin places I've been next to:
1 several hundred of acres recently fertilized with free human waste from a northern city that reeked for miles around for months & months & months (this farmer was actually put out of business because everyone stopped eating at his restaurant and he was never county commissioner again. He attempted to turn our county into a dumping grounds for that city)
2 in the middle of 200ac dump site for commercial chicken houses (I lasted about one min outside the clients's truck, he was immune to the smell but not the cloud of black flies that he claimed sent him to the truck)
3 a poorly managed waste treatment facility, refer to place 1.
[sarcasm]I don't care how pad a pig farm stinks because the bacon and ribs are worth it.[/sarcasm]
Well come on down to our coast and try to work down wind from one of our Pogie processing plants. That smell travels far. It will stay with you for days
Daddy used to say when hogs were high it smelled like money, but when the price was low, it smelled like !.