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Before I got to your post I was thinking this--in reverse; I think you should not bother renting one, but instead find somebody who can come and do work on your site for a few days. The problem it sounds like you have is short-term cash flow. It sounds better right now to pay $312/month because you can foot that now instead of several thousand, which you can't, but of course the long term cost is massively higher with the monthly. Maybe you can take out a personal line of credit or something? I see those floating around at various banks. If your credit and income support it, you can take out that money and spend it on anything, from paying somebody on craigslist for a few days of work to whatever. Or, maybe you can find somebody on craigslist who will rent you his equipment for a week or two instead of the $250/day that would cost elsewhere.

Forced to pay money or else denied a right. Isn't the purpose of the constitution a list of things that the government absolutely cannot take from you? The 2nd says you have a right to arms; if a law then says you must pay money or else you don't have that right, it seems to me it is preempting the constitution.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/25018.html So he could get a bow with a weird device, but otherwise cannot use an xbow during regular. It's probably because if this were possible, it would be really quite easy to find a doctor who agrees that a person shouldn't use a vertical bow (e.g. shoulder pain, arthritis, whatever). Obviously the OP is not in this scenario, but I'm positive people would game the system otherwise.

Pretty much. I have also seen kids at a restaurant on them, not engaging with their family at all and, worse, their parents too stupid or weak to turn their ipads into a discus. Sometimes I also see a teen with their family walking around with earphones in to completely shut off everything else going on.

Ugh, that sucks

Budget on the entire thing is absolutely bursting at the seams as it is! We came very, very close to throwing in the towel earlier in the week and signing off on a house in a sub division (cheap, close, price set in stone). But, thankfully a couple of people reminded us that we've been whining about having neighbors from the get-go. Going to talk to the bank again tomorrow and getting close to taking the plunge. The land owner is asking an absolute mint for the land, unfortunately, and absent any other options I may have no choice. It is at least a nice parcel. And in a strangely unique and positive spot in the town for some of their various bylaws that wouldn't apply to me.

You ever use amazon? Believe it or not, some people find benefit in online shopping. Including you, but you're (as usual) playing the town idiot because you love to troll. You are literally combative in every single damn thread with everybody at any opportunity, even if to be combative you have to make blessedly inane comments.

This is one thing I hate about my current house. I can't even shoot my bow. I am not buying a house just to be able to (I could lease incredible and at the mortgage diff between what I have now and future), but it's one example of how I feel "trapped" in my current home in the suburbs. That does sound awesome. I want an adjustable target on a motorized clothesline so I can stand on the deck and not even bother walking

Believe me, the tree stand is already placed in my mind (in fact, it will go where the existing one is--somebody had one there already). Going to make a final offer today and hope the landowner hasn't had second thoughts since This property's neighbor is a house with 20 acres of trees, which is another reason I want the property. I should have pretty good privacy long-term. I also DO like the idea of fruit trees, absolutely I think some apple trees would be great. Deer also like them! Nice! I talked to a co-worker who has 4 acres and he said do this, too. Timothy was cheap. If I can't get the land owner to drop the price at all I may ask him to do this as part of the deal. Costs him way less than it would me, given I'm a city boy with a push mower at this stage. You've all allayed my fears that I'll be forced to drop big money on hydroseed. I'll definitely go the cheaper route and if I have to drop any serious money it will be into a mower (which I'd need anyway).

Neat idea and WAY cheaper than I would think for what it is.

Hydroseed looks like it could be maybe as much as $4k/acre, which is too much for me for this. I wonder if I could find somebody to just do the approach Buckmaster mentions. I'm okay with rough field type looking grass I suppose.

Thanks, guys. I'm looking at as much as 3 acres of a 7 total lot. So this particular lot has a few acres barren, but then is surrounded on two sides by mature, grown trees. Only one side is currently open to the rest of the farm. I'm not delusional about how quickly new trees would grow to a decent height on that one side. The lot is not badly sloped. Perhaps 6' over 130 feet at the worst, and probably less than that. I would like if more of the lot had trees, but it's not possible. When i say there are no lots in this school system, I mean it. Literally just one treed lot in the entire town right now, and it's so misshapen as to be of almost no value (hence reason it cannot sell for years now). This lot I'm considering is only available because I happened to find one of the low number of land owners willing to sell me a portion of his land.

House is in the middle of the field, or close to it, about 250' back. What does "lawn grade" seed run per acre if I pay somebody to seed it? As for the idea of cheap hay seed that sounds pretty good to me. What does that run? I assume I'd need to pay somebody to come out and till and seed all in one go? And then as years go on the field will take on some other sort of disposition as various weeds gain prominence. Hoping that as long as I mow my genuine grass would remain strong.

My title sucked, but it's the best I could come up with. We're very close to putting an offer on a piece of land to build a house. The land is currently farmed. It has a very gentle rise in the middle where the house would go, By gentle I mean the 3 acre field is a couple hundred feet wide and maybe 500 feet deep and rises from the edges to the middle by about 8'. I plan on having maybe 1/4-1/2 acre around it seeded so that we have that as permanent lawn. For the other 2.5 acres I don't know what to do. 1) If I leave this field, will it start to erode? I assume that weeds will just run wild and keep the land in good shape--then I can just pay somebody on craigslist to rough mow it down 1-2 times/year and just let snakes, rabbits, whatever grow as they will--basically the same as I've seen fields look at some of the public land around here with knee high grass, flowers, whatever 2) Is this field going to absolutely brutalize my yard with untold, insane amounts of weeds, and overtake it and just be unrealistic to keep the decent lawn in the middle of wild field? The obvious thing here is to seed 3 acres with cheap seed but I don't know how much that costs, plus I don't have a ride on mower, plus this house is already crushingly expensive and I just can't afford to spend more money on non-essentials. Thanks for feedback

I do hear some whining about trump being a constitutional crisis. Like that's matter; when it comes to something like guns suddenly the constitution is a living document and that is an anachronism.

Cute article. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/opinion/neil-gorsuch-the-nominee-for-a-stolen-seat.html NYT calls the seat "stolen" because the republicans refused to consider Garland last year. Later they call what the republicans did an "abuse of power". So sore. Would the dems have done any differently? Nope. In fact, what the republicans did was not abuse power, but leverage it. What rule did they break? What law? No rule, no law. They, for once, played to win. And they won. And NYT's crocodile tears that the republicans are being mean is pretty transparent. It's like those poker players who use sunglasses. Is it cool, is it really in the spirit of poker? Probably not. Is it legal; is it compliant with rules? Yes, and so you can't slight them for using all the techniques available to them.

Was he supposed to stand by his door and wait for his wife to come around? Are women these fragile figures barely capable of walking and need to be tugged along with a virtual leash from their husband?

I like it. Not touched my snowblower in weeks. Though when I used to ski weather like this pissed me off! I see it as no snow removal and easier on the power bill now.

Another snowflake melting on film. Imagine, this person thought she could sit next to a person, lecture/scold them, and then when enough of a fuss is kicked up that a flight attendant comes along, the expectation is that the victim of the berating be moved? The biggest victim here is her husband who no doubt suffered hours of lamenting by her in the airport as they tried to figure out another flight. Plus, being escorted off a plane by police there is probably some remark about her on some list. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4146848/Woman-taken-plane-challenging-Trump-supporter.html

Probably closer than Doc's guess only because Doc's requires work.

Hmm, considering uptown drops these bombs and then takes off, it's pretty obvious he's trolling. Adding to blocked list. If he can't even be bothered to come back to his troll threads, that's the very definition of trolling.

haha i laughed out loud.

What the article misses is that modern students of universities are not secularists; they are still religious and adhere to "faith" as much as devout theologians. The difference is their religion is progressiveness. Do they not exhibit the same kind of faith? Look at Steve Harvey recently. He dared to meet with Trump and has received in his words a surprising backlash. What other group treats people who step outside the lines so nastily? Cults. You step outside the line and your cultists will crap upon your very name.

Are mods allowed to admonish you for lying in your title? You said lowest ever and that article says "modern times". Do you know who else was absolutely reviled when he was inaugurated? Lincoln. Dems just hate republicans who they know are going to get s@*# done. #MAGA Enjoy tomorrow, uptown! As Trump says, it's maga for everyone, not just republicans. He'll drag you kicking and screaming if need be, but you're on the trump train now, too, and we want everybody to get better. Bigly.

Pretty sure the DEC website says you do NOT need to post property to charge for trespassing. However, when I had my hunting course a couple years back I'm pretty dang sure the guy said that if you don't post, they cannot charge. When/if I buy land I will aggressively post it and I won't just throw the posted signs on there. I will also warn that the property is under cellular trail cam surveillance and that the police will be called on trespassers immediately. It doesn't even matter if I'm telling the truth about the cams