Re: Power Company foreign owned also

Posted by Billy NY on March 19, 2006 at 06:44:34 from (152.163.100.74):

In Reply to: Power Company foreign owned also posted by jdemaris on March 18, 2006 at 12:11:44:

JD, you sure sound fired up about that one, but I suppose it can be tough to deal with these people if you let them get the upper hand. Your location appears to have enough traffic to be more than annoying.

It's a very relevant topic with all the "right of way's" and "easements" crossing farmland out there, it's something a lot of people deal with, now all we have to do is get on our tractors armed with our Winchesters and take on the Redcoats ! LOL.

Maybe it's just me, but it sounds like a communication problem that happened at your place. I'm not sure what your arrangement is on the property, but you would not expect to see another company's equipment out there, but once they start, you don't know who will show up. In construction every subcontractor must be included in a hold harmless or the owner indemnified, keeping the owner from liability from a general contractor and any various subs, obviously like here they needed to gain access to their property, do they own it outright at your place ?

Anytime someone comes onto anothers property, it does feel like you're invaded, especially after years and years of tranquility. People try to use our 98 acres as a pass through, more so lately. I have maintained an active presence to let them know it's not appreciated and will not be tolerated, stating no one asked for permission, and until someone does, kindly stay off, can't say how much longer I'll be able to enjoy it, it's a tax burden, so I want what is left, without distraction. I don't like doing it, I'll say that just about everyone that I have stopped was polite, and has always understood, apologized etc., so I try not to be a jerk, but once in awhile one of them will get an earful, it does get annoying, it's a distraction. I hate posted signs, people go right past them anyways, 2 weeks ago, a young school teacher riding an ATV drove right into my back yard, I cursed him out, and told him to get the F out, I don't like people that close to the house, as the urban environment and the associated crime is getting closer to us, our place is in a nice location for this, it's not far from city limits, I've always liked it though, not too far out in the rural area, but just enough distance and space to still enjoy a place with a few acres. Same school teacher came back last week, I popped out of the woods and jumped in front of the ATV unexpectedly, I said "hey aren't you the same guy I tossed out last week ?" Ok, I said listen, you were a little close to the house, ( unbeknownst to most neighbors, I used to work away in NYC so, I want people to know the place is watched in case I ever go back). So I had a conversation with the guy and he was very apologetic about tresspassing. It ended on a polite note and although I owe these people nothing, I hate being a jerk to them or anyone if at all possible, but still don't take any crap from anyone either, you will respect the place, or you buy it and pay the taxes yourself. They make us out to be the bad guys when we tell them to leave. However, I did catch him redhanded bypassing the signs that are clearly visible, people are just oblivious to signs, they mean nothing anymore, so that fuels my fire, it simply means the owner does not want or does not allow strangers on the property, you have to ask for permission.

Niagara Mohawk being bought by National Grid, I think it sucks. I've known a lot of people who worked for them, we used to buy there old equipment and re-sell it our Ford Dealership on the side, like people who buy former fleet vehicles today for re-sale. I know Nimo used to have the union stigma about it, but it was a good outfit to work for, not to say any of us like the power companies, and their "fees" the re-organization has made the internal structure worse, they were not losing money, no need for it, if we are to pay the premium, we might as well have the premium services performed by some of the people I've known, from engineers to linemen, and yeah I've seen them playing botchy (spelling?) ball on the job, during downtime, but none of the linemen I knew were slouches, when lines were down, they worked, and even on most jobs I've seen they worked hard, I had a lot of confidence in the people that worked for Nimo. Not anymore, they're in upheaval, outsourcing the work, subcontractors mostly, no more big core of in-house trades. It's not the same.

When the right away agent approached me about the tower they are doing to build, ( they have to span our 23 acre pond and replace an existing span ) I asked to see the design drawings and had him bring a copy of the deeds stating the requirements of having to allow them access to their easement, we own on either side, they are landlocked. We went over the details, of the job, the tower is going up in a field that uses there property, so a lot of the field is being taken up now, but most of it will be restored we had use of all of it for 40 years. We went over the details of the job, I almost went after and bid the excavation and concrete for the towers, hey why not, I could walk to work LOL. When they came to build the road, I worked with the operators to "sight in" the road, I cut down a few nice mature sumacs and left an island of them on one side for aesthetic reasons, it looked nice and it's what I wanted left. The dozer operator did a lot of extra work for me, as the right of way agent told the crew to take care of the owner here, they also graded off our lot and placed 120 tons of crushed stone down, besides the other 200 or so for the road, all of which they would take up and stockpile if I wanted the road removed. It worked a lot better with these guys when I worked with them, they respected the place and when said in done, I got a lot of work done and materials for free. They left a JD 650 lgp rental dozer on the lot, I got a few days use of that when they were done for the cost of fuel which was not much. The operators were very good people, we worked together, he sure was generous with that stone. It kind of attracted some people/tresspassers to the property, but it's under control, have to keep them in check. When they cleared the entire easement, the deluge of atv's became a problem, but the right of way agent has been and will be assisting in mitigating the problem, the traffic uses their property illegally to gain access to our one nice bottom field, and that I don't like, they have destroyed crops in the field before and run through my clover patch.

I'd better cut myself off here !

Replies:

• Propery rights, emminent domain, adverse use, etc. jdemaris 07:59:09 03/19/06 (1)
  • Re: Propery rights, emminent domain, adverse use, Billy NY 12:02:06 03/19/06 (0)

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