Posted by JDseller on August 05, 2012 at 07:22:09 from (208.126.196.144):
In Reply to: I vomitted today... posted by John_PA on August 05, 2012 at 00:12:35:
I HOPE you get paid for the crop. I had a natural gas line put in on a farm I farmed 20 years ago. It was a local delivery line. They tore up the out side six rows of corn clear across the front of the farm and down one side. A total of 1 1/2 miles of road frontage. They assured me that they would pay me for my crop. They even had a local guy hired to go around and tell us how "good" they would treat us.
My "BIG" corn check from them was $189 dollars. Yes that is right $189. That was for about 2.5 acres of corn. I had the ASCS come out and chain measure the damaged amount. So to them my corn was worth $75 per acre. Plus I had to cross a fresh trench to access any of the fields. They did this in Sept. So with Oct. harvest all of the dirt was fresh. I broke two different wagons that fell into the un-compacted trench.
I sued the company that did the trenching work and the local utility for damages. I won at the local court level then they appealed to the state court. The court upheld the ruling BUTTTT they reduced the damages. The fix was in!!!! The utility companies pay BIG bribes or so call campaign contributions. After legal bills I still only got about $750.
So after that I DON"T SIGN ANY easements. Plus I fight them tooth and nail if they try eminent domain. So far they have figured out that it is going to be costly to cross any of my land.
I bet the guys that say you will be paid well have never had any utility work done where they got crops destroyed. Plus destroying 120 foot wide strip just to install a 36 inch pipe. That is just plain wasteful in a year like this.
I would like to find out who made the decision to do that and put a 120 wide stretch across his land/yard/field. Then see how he liked it.
So I wish you luck but I bet that you will not like the out come of all of this. Keep us informed as to how it all works out.
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