I wish people would tell me things

I was gonna cut hay off a rented place tomorrow. A guy who lives right next to it told my wife this morning that the absentee owner had sold the place. This guy who told her,had been trying to buy it. He called the owner when he got home from Florida last month and the guy said he'd sold it,but wouldn't say who bought it.
So,this afternoon,I went and saw the guy who lives on the other side of it if he knew anything about it. He said,ya,he'd bought it,go ahead and cut it like you always have. Would have been nice to know without having to go knocking on doors. What we have here is a little break down in communication.

had a family sell a place one time that I was doing hay on ,,,they sold it while I still had equipment and hay stored there over winter ,never called or nothing.

" What we have here is a failure to communicate". Cool Hand Luke, 1967

Luke, better get yo mind right boy

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RR that's pretty common I always touch base with those that are not on a written lease or a job that held over. Like you can't do it in the fall so I check in with them in the spring to make sure. In fact did that this morning. You might want to get a lease on it!!!

How many hard boiled eggs could he eat? ///lol

I've been working some of these places without a written lease for 40 years. I'd feel like I was pestering everybody of I asked every spring.

Sounds like nothing changed except the owner, so what the problem?

The problem would have been if he had mowed the hay and the new owner took offense to someone mowing his hay, Randy could have gotten arrested or sued, or both.

I got in to that situation once. A guy wanted me to put some up on shares with him. He took me and showed me what to cut. There were three or four different fields. I got in to one,made a few rounds and a woman came out and stopped me,asked me what the H I was doing. I told her it was OK,I was putting it up on shares with (so and so's) son in law. She said "They don't have this rented this year!".
Gee,thanks a lot for sending me out there to cut that.

(quoted from post at 18:33:24 06/15/16) The problem would have been if he had mowed the hay and the new owner took offense to someone mowing his hay, Randy could have gotten arrested or sued, or both.

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But he did not . So what is the problem after the fact? IF IF IF

Yep, I know exactly what you're talking about. I have a 20 acre field we have been renting since 1985. Exchanged hands once, all was fine with new owner (only comes to property on weekends) for several years, then last year out of the blue in the middle of July, he calls and says "don't cut the hay". Hmmmmm, that was a bit of a problem since the hay has been cut two days prior and I was planning to bale the next day. Well, long story short, my rent was tripled in price, but I needed the hay. Last week, another neighbor told me that land was sold a few weeks ago. I'm guessing it is true, as folks no one knows are living there now. Never a phone call or nothing............

Ya,I had another one once,I had paid the rent on that one,took two cuttings and the old gal sold the place. I cut the third cutting and got a phone call from the new owner asking me why I had cut "his" hay? He said his father in law had been going to cut it. I told him I had already paid for it and he'd have to take it up with the woman he bought the place from. If she didn't tell him I had already rented it for the year,it wasn't my fault.

That was about like the time I wanted to buy a hydraulic pump off of an older MM parts tractor. I was told by the guy to go ahead and take the hydraulic pump off of a tractor sitting up in his yard. His brother came out and said What the he** are you doing to my tractor? I told him the story and he said He can take it off of his own tractor....

Usually when somebody tells a story like that,it opens up the conversation for others to tell similar stories. I guess you don't have one and don't care to read anybody else's either then huh?

You should have baled it and paid him the previous rent price. Can't raise the rent after September of the previous year, in most farm states. That way you don't get stuck if you plow, plant, fertilize, etc.

Guy I knew told me down at the coffee shop that I could have the hay on his place if I wanted it. Went the next Saturday and started cutting it. Was about half done when a guy stopped and asked me what I was doing. I told him that George had given me his hay, and I was cutting it. He said George's place was next door (with horses on it, very little to cut), and that I was on his place. I told him I'll pull out right now if you want, or will finish cutting if you want to pay me for the job (the hay was ready, and weather looked good). He said to go ahead and finish, so I did. Then it started raining and ruined it, and I kissed my efforts goodbye. Was very surprised to get a check from the guy a couple months later. I guess a deal was a deal with him.

We have land use tax breaks if the land is used by a farmer for something like hay,and the farmer has to fill out a paper and send it into county finance dept every year so you
can bet they keep me up to date.Also get all the hay land I want for free so the landowners get the tax break.

had a guy while cutting neighbors hay for nothing, came over and paid me $50 to cut his field. told me to cut every year. he died, and niece inherited it from different state, called and told me she wanted me to keep cutting it. couple years ago after cutting, neighbor come tearing over and said i cut his hay as he rented the land. nice coulda told me as you know i cut the hay. sent him bill, no pay. said he would buy me a sub samwich, still have to see if a 6" or 12"

about 15 yrs ago , I did a trim and gutter job on a new house in the middle of a once good field planted in corn ,it now has decrepit abandoned horsey junk and mini bike trails and weeds and junk all over it . I knew the farmer that rented it for yrs from the old guy that was my old busdriver ,. the bus driver died and for about 5 yrs thereafter , the farmer renter would send his rent payment out of state to the son every spring in time to pay the taxes,. that worked well for his dad and his son agreed to it the week of his funeral ...it was a early warm april , the farmer renter was planting no til corn when the hi lift showed up to dig a basement ,, both operators looked at one another in amazement, and confusion , they knew one another and were respectful , But BOTH Realized THERe WAS A HUGE PROBLEM ?! farmer renter asks you sure you are at the rite place, because no one ever said boo to me ??,. yes sir I,am ,,. I was here last week flagging rite over there,. and there is the driveway flags too , the farmer renter was dumbfounded ,. he had not yet got across the field to the house marking flags but he had noticed the flags along the road , but had no idea they marked a drive thru the field , just kinda thought it was location marker for the telephone or water line,. , the farmer renter KNEW HIS RITES in the State of IND,. no one told him before dec 1st , that the land mite be sold,. they go find a phone and ring up the new owner,. who still is a real puncture wound out of towner ,. this idiot comes railing in to the farm and starts calling the farmer a crooked s-ob , claims he owns the land and wants damages and is threatening to sue , gets bilrgerant enuf that the farmers wife calls the sheriff , the Idiot gets hostile with the sheriff,,.. and was threatened with jail,.if he did not settle down,.and listen to law and reason ,. ,he finally realized that the landowner son was indeed in error .the sale closing took place in early February ,. no disclosure was made to the new owner about the long time farmer renter and his rite to farm that year,.. while we worked on this guys house I learned the whole story ,. and heard a law suit was filed against the seller . never did learn the outcome,. got done and got paid and got out . I also learned that relations were terribly at odds with the farmer and the citiot and mostly the citiots wife ,, no resprect for his growing crop,. the farmer threatened if more damage occurred he would ask damages , and that put the icing on the cake for a good feud .. then come a dry spell in the fall the fire dept and sheriff were called out again one nite to put out a corn field fire that could a took the whole field ,. it was started by the citiot burning scrap lumber too close to the field , and naturally the wind carried the fire into the ready forharvest corn ,. the farmer renter isalso on the volunteer fire dept,. and was one of the 1st there,.it is a good thing he had fire dept boys with him to calm him down ,, I think he woulda kilt the citiot and his wife with his bare hands ,. we all hoped they would move,,. since no one could get along with them , I was luky I had no trouble at all with them , because they pikt all the other trades that worked on the house to death ..people like that don't deserve the freedom or respect my forefathers fou...ght to give them ,. they poison and demoralize everyone they meet

And, "I don't care if it rains or freezes" Cool Hand Luke