neighbor's propane canon

My neighbor has planted beans in a field next to a large woodlot and has set up a propane canon a few yards south of my property line. It is booming about once a minute 24-7. It is about a quarter mile from my house. I understand his problem with deer but I sure don't want to listen to that all summer. I don't want trouble with my neighbor but this is getting on my nerves.

I can't believe anyone is that inconsiderate.
Frank

They do that around here before dove season over sunflowers, don't last long and only in the daytime. A 30-06 will quiet it down for a while!

Does it really do any good??? I think most any animal would get used to and ignore it in short order.... Must be pretty loud or you have thin walls if it bothers you so far away... Maybe a way to tone it down or maybe point it away from you??

I think the same neighbor who has no concern for others is doing the same thing down here.
As I crop farmer, I have some sympathy.
I don't study the animals, but my understanding is those cannons will scare geese that have been shot at. I doubt they're doing anything to deter the deer, especially going off so constantly and frequently.
Had a concerned neighbor(who moved out here from the city) ask about it. We discussed WGWKy2's remedy.

It's likely the same guy (BD). Noticed that he doesn't live where he puts out the cannons. I'm hoping the cost of the propane will limit the duration of the barrage.

Don't worry about trouble with the neighbor. He's clearly an idiot. I live near a gun range and that's annoying enough on an occasional weekend. I wouldn't put up with the cannon. The cannon would either be gone or the neighbor would have a very big problem on his hands. Nobody should have to listen to that. We have beans planted around some of the most deer populated areas of michigan and nobody is using a propane cannon to keep them out. What an inconsiderate sob.

He is wasting his time and money. Deer will get used to the noise and ignore the cannon. I drive down the back roads on the way home from the store. Deer used to run when they saw my truck. Now they look up to see who it is and go back to what they were doing.

I would hate to think what would happen to that cannon if the propane line leaked, it caught fire and you were forced to put the fire out by smashing it into the dirt with a front end loader....
Good neighbors help each other out...right?

My neighbor did the same thing last summer. He did it trying to keep birds out of his corn. But - in my case he was doing it maybe 1/8th a mile from my house. He's works for the state of New York as a conservation/wildlife technician and brought several propane canons home on loan - to use on his family farm.

The noise was driving us nuts but it took us a week to figure where it was coming from. Since it was going off every hour, from 6:00 a.m. to dark, I was kind of perplexed on who was doing it without being seen (I didn't know it was my neighbor with a cannon). Finally - I went down to my neighbor to ask if he knew what (*ssh*le was making all the noise). Well? Bad choice of words since it ends up is was him and I was about the 20th person to come to his place and complain. He kept it up for the rest of the summer and isn't very friendly with me anymore.

Note that two years ago - my dog got caught in a leg-hold coyote trap on a popular hiking trail in nearby state forest. At that time I ALSO went to my neighbor with the trap in hand - and asked him to see if he could ID the #s off it and trace the idiot that set it in the middle of summer (no name on the tag - just a sequence of #s and NYS on it). Whoops again! It was him. As a wildlife tech, he said he was setting coyote traps to train some new guys working for the state. I guess they are special and don't have to follow game laws.

A high powered rifle shot into the propane tank would fix it, and wouldn't be noticed, if you time it right!

I assume you have a house and a small lot in Ag zoned land,ag land means folks there make a living farming.I guess if you want to pay the damages the deer do he'd be glad to cut it off.BTW in my state any legal action against a farmer will mean he can collect 3X whatever it costs for him to fight your action from you because of the right to farm law.If you want peace and quiet in a nice residental neighborhood move to a subdivision.Farming is a noisey business.

How far is your property from his house, if close enough....Get your own cannon, aim it towards his house.
P.S. Get a big one and set it to fire as rapidly as possible.

I'll stand defense of anyone using the propane cannons in an attempt to deter wildlife damage. I have three of them I use to scare crows and turkey from newly sprouted corn fields . I operate them for about a week beginning when corn first breaks through the ground. They work for me.
Two years ago I got a visit from a woman who wanted to know if I was the " Blast Master". She was complaining the loud explosions had scared her little house dog so bad that it could not $#!%. I explained the reason for using them and she said she understood , "but it scares my dog". Told her that I would slow the cannon time interval but told her I still would operate them to protect my crop which was my livelihood. Again said she understood and left. She telephoned once complaining again. I consulted an attorney. Couple of days later a Sheriff's deputy showed up to see my "weapons of mass destruction". He said the woman had told Police in nearby town that the farmer was blowing up propane tanks. Police told her to call Sheriff. Deputy saw and heard the cannons then he apologized for bothering me. He said that he would return to the woman and set her straight. She telephoned and apologized. Never any more problem from her.

That's about the lamest excuse I've ever heard. Farming is a noisy business! Yeah right. We live out in the sticks, farm with hundreds of deer eating our crops around here and NOBODY is rude enough to be using a propane cannon to keep the deer away. There is nothing normal about having a gun go off every minute of the day. Nobody should have to put up with it and they won't. As far as complaining about city people, that's bs too. Some of the best neighbors we have are from town and they pay their taxes and have jobs and deserve the same respect as anybody else. Living out in the country your whole life doesn't give you the right to act like a dumb@ss idiot.

Lots of farmers especially fruit growers use those cannons part of the deal,like I said city types need to stay in the city and the 'burbs'.You sound like the silly fellow that thought he was going to stop my neighbor from logging the land my neighbor owned behind his house.

(quoted from post at 04:05:20 06/03/12) Lots of farmers especially fruit growers use those cannons part of the deal,like I said city types need to stay in the city and the 'burbs'.You sound like the silly fellow that thought he was going to stop my neighbor from logging the land my neighbor owned behind his house.

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We live in town but are still considered ag (??) if the place was originally so.. A neighbor complained when we first got here cause our rooster crowed in the morning and disturbed him.. I set a light on a timer every hour so he'd crow and get him used to it so the morning one wouldn't bother him so bad...

Same ones complained the horses bothered them when they stood close to thier house (under thier bedroom window) and munched grass... Being the nice guy I am, I relocated the sh!t pile there so the horses wouldn't stand there and eat...

That was back when I had people skills and wanted to accomodate the friendly requests of the neighbors....

You should try being a little more tolerant yourself....

You assume wrong TF. I own 160 a. farm that's been in the family for 175 years. I do work in town and rent the land to a different neighbor and grow hay on some of it. Boomer lives ten miles away from the cannon (now silent).