Bullying desguised (badly) as precaution

Ok Jim,
I'll take a bobcat on this hill and you take one on yours and we'll
meet in the middle!
I keep looking over in the Blountville area, and I'd love to have a
place in Shady Valley,...but that would be a realllll bad drive to work for
my wife in winter. Not that easy during the summer.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"Morgans" wrote in message
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"George Patterson" wrote

Hey, there's plenty of flat land there. It's all vertical, though. :-)

I have often thought about getting a chunk of land around here (Western
NC)
and getting a big ol' dozer. I could then spend a good chunk of spare
time
chopping off two hills and filling in the middle, to make a runway.

That is one of the only ways to have a runway around here, unless you pay
a
fortune for flat land, OR get it in the middle of large populations, OR on
a
flood plain, where the next worse thing to flooding is frequent morning or
evening ground fog.

It helps that I like earth moving equipment! ;-)
--
Jim in NC

"George Patterson" wrote

Hey, there's plenty of flat land there. It's all vertical, though. :-)

I have often thought about getting a chunk of land around here (Western NC)
and getting a big ol' dozer. I could then spend a good chunk of spare time
chopping off two hills and filling in the middle, to make a runway.

That is one of the only ways to have a runway around here, unless you pay a
fortune for flat land, OR get it in the middle of large populations, OR on a
flood plain, where the next worse thing to flooding is frequent morning or
evening ground fog.

It helps that I like earth moving equipment! ;-)
--
Jim in NC

W P Dixon wrote:

My own strip that is my dream! Well just as soon as my rich Uncle
gets out of the poor house! Biggest thing here is finding enough land
that is flat enough. If I were still in Eastern KY I could just buy a
abandoned strip mine....they make my pretty mountains into treelesss
flat runways! May as well get some use out of the eyesores.

I have the same dream, but my land is rolling hillsides and it would
take a LOT of excavation to make a runway even 1500' long. Now a
Rotorway.... :-)

Matt

W P Dixon wrote:

I'll take a bobcat on this hill and you take one on yours and we'll
meet in the middle!

A bobcat? Man, you are a real glutton for punishment.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

("George Patterson" wrote)
I'll take a bobcat on this hill and you take one on yours and we'll
meet in the middle!

A bobcat? Man, you are a real glutton for punishment.


A friend rented a walk-behind bobcat type machine for knocking down a berm
in his yard. It operated it like a big bad-a** snowblower ...only with
treads, a bucket and some 'hoist' levers that were counterintuitive for me,
because they were opposite from the machines in my old forklift days.

Yup, that was different - I kept dumping my load when I wanted the bucket to
tilt up. I got it pretty well figured out by the time the berm was
completely knocked down and spread around :-)

Tricking an old dog.


Montblack

HEE HEE,
Yep they are small, but they are a hoot to play around on. Not to mention
on my budget I could rent one! If I can find someplace decent I won't
worry to much , can borrow a Ford tractor and scraper blade. We have an acre
and half(? guesstimation?) here, but it goes up to the top of the ridge at
the TN/VA line.

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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W P Dixon wrote:

I'll take a bobcat on this hill and you take one on yours and we'll
meet in the middle!

A bobcat? Man, you are a real glutton for punishment.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your
neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

"W P Dixon" wrote in message
...
Ok Jim,
I'll take a bobcat on this hill and you take one on yours and we'll
meet in the middle!
I keep looking over in the Blountville area, and I'd love to have a
place in Shady Valley,...but that would be a realllll bad drive to work
for
my wife in winter. Not that easy during the summer.

Bobcat? Ha! You'll meet me in the middle in 6 or 8 years!

Bobcats are great for moving a little fill around, or clearing for a
sidewalk. Try to start digging deep, or undisturbed clay and rock, and you
will soon be wanting something MUCH bigger.

I recently was having a basement dug for a house, and hit a layer of the
HARD variety of granite. It didn't take long to realize that it was going
to take a few sticks of dynamite to get it to "leave." It did leave, with
the encouragement of about 7 sticks. g
--
Jim in NC

"Montblack" wrote

It operated it like a big bad-a** snowblower ...only with
treads, a bucket and some 'hoist' levers that were counterintuitive for
me,
because they were opposite from the machines in my old forklift days.

Yup, that was different - I kept dumping my load when I wanted the bucket
to
tilt up. I got it pretty well figured out by the time the berm was
completely knocked down and spread around :-)

At one time, the local equipment rental place had a Bobcat, and a New
Holland brand skid steer. They were both about the same size, but one hat
the controls for the bucket on the feet, wheels with the hands. The other
machine was completely opposite. Wanna' talk confused, when going from one
to the other? g
--
Jim in NC

Possibility of a fly-in B&B?

We *are* discussing moving into the inn (essentially a fly-in B&B, on
steroids) while we look for the "perfect" home with enough land for a
landing strip.

Trouble is, I'm afraid we'd get so used to it, that we'd never leave. It
makes SO much financial sense, but... We really like being able to "go
home" at the end of the day, and leave the place in the able hands of our
night manager, who does live on-site.

We'll see how it unfolds. We've got lots of irons in the fire right now...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

We really like being able to "go
home" at the end of the day, and leave the place in the able hands of our
night manager, who does live on-site.

You'd be going farther away from the airport.

Jose
--
Money: what you need when you run out of brains.
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