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SuperHank · Jan 9, 2013

Last month I was hunting in Nebraska when we came upon an old abandoned farmstead. Falling down house and barns grown up in trees and thoroughly abandoned although the fields were in active cultivation. I love to look around such place and in the barn found a set of tires that will fit my M which does need better tires. I have tried to find the name of the owner. The tenant farmer reference somebody back east and I called them but they say the buildings are in an estate as yet unsettled. The tires look to be 1950"s or 60"s but are the right size and in good shape. I can"t bring myself to just throw them in my truck but I know they are destined to rot away. There are parts of old threshers and every concievable old part from the 40"s and maybe earlier. This is turning into an ethics issue for me and fortunately I know the right thing to do but I wonder if anyone has come across a similar issue

Animal · Jan 9, 2013

I have commend you Super Hank, now where did you say this was at?

MisterT · Jan 9, 2013

Just walk away and forget all about it.

JMS/.MN · Jan 9, 2013

Since you talked to the folks back east, you have contact info. Make an offer to the executor. If the tires are that good, they won't rot away before estate settlement. It's still their property.

sd pete · Jan 9, 2013

Trespassers should be prosecuted.

magpiene · Jan 9, 2013

In this area iF you just load them up, IT COULD GET REAL UGLY IF YOU GET CAUGHT!!!!!! Some would shoot first then call the sherrif. So ask a lot more questions before you act. I live in central NE. I do not live on my farm, so some seem to think it is abandoned. So I have lost many items Gary.

SuperHank · Jan 9, 2013

I called the lawyers office and could not get to him and his secretary would not even attempt to answer. Maybe just one of those things that will never get answered. It was a neat old farmstead at one time though. I am told that it just gets too expensive to fix the old buildings but the house was more than just an run down average farm house.

SuperHank · Jan 9, 2013

Dang Pete. I had permission to hunt there just no permission to take his tires.

SuperHank · Jan 9, 2013

You are right,of course and I have a similar problem on a farm many miles away. I put up a motion detector and a game camera. I got one fellow arrested and apparently the word got out and haven't had a problem since. But this particular place is not a place where someone is not living. It is so obviously abandoned that while I might should not have been looking in the barn,even with permission to hunt there, there could be no doubt no one intended to use anything around the buildings.

SuperHank · Jan 9, 2013

Best advice so far

Wile E · Jan 9, 2013

If you looked in my house and I wasnt home at the time does that mean you can just "take" my TV cause I wasnt home watching it?
If I was you I would ask the owner of the property if you can "purchase at a very reduced price" the tires you want.
I understand that it may go into the scrap pile, but that is not your concern if they are junked, only after it is in the landfill can you claim it.

ohiojim · Jan 9, 2013

permission to hunt but you don't know who owns the property ?????

John B. · Jan 9, 2013

If you're looking at tires that are 50-60 yrs old doesn't this turn a light on! In less than a year after you put air in these you'll be buying new tires any way.
I personally would be scared to put any air in them myself.

The Red · Jan 9, 2013

If you have even a remote skirmish with the law, your attorney bill will far exceed buying new tires.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 9, 2013

Go ahead and grab them, there is a thousand acres closed to hunting here over tail light lenses taken off a 1949 KB 7 IH.

dhermesc · Jan 9, 2013

You noticed that too?

Anonymous-0 · Jan 9, 2013

If you take them, you are a common thief and I do hope you get caught. I dont want you anywhere on my place to hunt or for any other purpose. Your having such thoughts shows very poor character. Tom

BushogPapa · Jan 9, 2013

You had NO permission if you don't even know who owns that land and certainly NO permission to be nosing around IN those buildings..

Sounds like real Hillbilly-Thinking...

"If they are not being USED, you didn't NEED them", huh..?

I can see that he does NOT even "Get it", yet...

Ron..

just another old geezer · Jan 9, 2013

If I were NOT trespassing, and I found tires I would like to buy I would move them under cover STILL ON THE PROPERTY. Put a note with my name, address and phone number on it, along with the price I was willing to pay. Then call the owner and get a hold of the person representing the estate, and make a standing offer. Then wait and hope for the best.

S2710 · Jan 9, 2013

Ron I know several people that rent land from land owners that live hundreds of miles away and they have the renter moniter the hunting on the land. Also if you read what he said HE KNEW WHAT WAS RIGHT AND WHAT WAS WRONG. It sounds like he did what was right and left the tires and tried to contact the owners. The only thing that I see that he did wrong was go in the building, but I bet that a good majority of the folks that post on here have done that same thing at one time in your life. It may not have been going into some buildings, but if you look at what is in the back of someones pickup you are no better then the guy that goes in a old building. JUST MY THOUGHTS.

Bob

Anonymous-0 · Jan 9, 2013

I rent 2 farms like that and get more stuff stolen or just destroyed because of people like you.....centeral ohio

BushogPapa · Jan 9, 2013

Now..let's see...:

I have a barn that I leave closed-up, with Double-Sprung Conibear traps set over known Groundhog entry locations..These are Large and Powerful..plenty powerful-enough to break your arm or even a Leg...
YOU open my building and enter....Maybe I find your Corpse next Spring...
I think you had better be VERY Careful...

Ron..

Tony S. · Jan 9, 2013

Many years ago I bought a truck from the bank that repossessed a bunch of equipment from a farm. Tailgate wasn"t there, they said go out to the farm and look. I looked in a shed while I was there, and there was a brand new feeder for a New Holland baler of the same model I have now which desperately needs the same part. No, I wouldn"t take it, but maybe could have had it for asking. Who knows.

SuperHank · Jan 10, 2013

There are a bunch of people on here who don"t read or just like to argue. I was on the property with the consent of the tenant farmer who had the right to allow hunting. I did not remove anything only looked at an obviously old pair of tires that I did not even touch. My inquiry was whether the more objective and clear thinking members had ever come across such a situation. It should be obvious that I never went so far as to steal anything only observe the tires that are clearly abandoned yet on private property. They weren"t mine so I did not touch them.

SuperHank · Jan 10, 2013

"If they are not being USED, you didn't NEED them", huh..?

You need to explain that one. Even hillbillys can express themselves better than that.

SuperHank · Jan 10, 2013

How is it that people like me steal or destoy things when I just explained that I didn't and wouldn't take anything? I guess you are one of those people who hide behind their keyboard throwing insults they don't have the guts to make in real life. Or maybe I'm just jumping to illogical conclusions as people on the internet sometimes do.

SuperHank · Jan 10, 2013

Let me add to this post thatI had written permission from the tennant farmer. Included in that permission was about 5 acres of grown up osage orange and other trees in which was a house about to fall down and an old barn equally decrepit. We found a covey of quail in the area and having noticed the buildings went over to look, where I saw the tires. I mentioned it to the tenant farmer and he gave me some contact information. To all the pious types on here I understand the concept of private property better than most. I don't need lectures or warnings If you have never been in a situation like this I don't need your input.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 10, 2013

I like your answer Bushog Papa I should do that, maby I wouldn't get so many battery or fuel stolen

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