Omg if there wind turbine wasn’t there we could look at…..more corn!
Windmills in Iowa
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One had a couple wings break in Adair county here last couple days, one snapped off. We have the chance to build some here now. They have gone up all around us in every county we have farm.
Also, almost all of you are wrong with your “facts” lol. This board has just gone to shit.
Also, almost all of you are wrong with your “facts” lol. This board has just gone to shit.
No; they do not.
Rode past plenty of them in back-woods Iowa on RAGBRAI back in the day. They are pitch-black, except for the red blinking light for aircraft. They do make a noticeable hum when you are close to them.
The light pollution you see is from farms and cities, Cletus. Not windmills.
I want to point out that I’m not remotely surprised that Joes Place is also an expert in windmill technology and it’s environmental impacts
I'm not so blatantly stupid that I think they need "lights" to function.
Read a book sometime.
Ooooo... you rode past them.... that makes all the difference.....
You stupid scunt, I see them everyday and every night.
I'm from N Henry County originally. I manage farms with turbines.
1. They do seem to make some people sick that are highly sensitive.
2. I hate dealing with the companies.
3. Not sure why anyone would ever sign one of the contracts.
4. The concrete is never coming out of the ground and it is massive.
5. The wires are likely never coming out.
6. Everything is about the contract. Your land could be held for non payment by the lender to the turbine company.
7. The tech will change massively in 20/40 years.
8. Oft they require the owner to co insure the turbine company
9. These things do fall down.
10. The construction does awful things to soil
11. N Henry Co has some of the best land anywhere. Why take great farmland out of production.
12. Your sunsets/sunrises will never be the same.
13. I manage farms near their IL turbines. Just don't do it.
14. Your taxes will go up (property)
15. You might screw up your estate plans.
16. The companies are whores.
1. They do seem to make some people sick that are highly sensitive.
2. I hate dealing with the companies.
3. Not sure why anyone would ever sign one of the contracts.
4. The concrete is never coming out of the ground and it is massive.
5. The wires are likely never coming out.
6. Everything is about the contract. Your land could be held for non payment by the lender to the turbine company.
7. The tech will change massively in 20/40 years.
8. Oft they require the owner to co insure the turbine company
9. These things do fall down.
10. The construction does awful things to soil
11. N Henry Co has some of the best land anywhere. Why take great farmland out of production.
12. Your sunsets/sunrises will never be the same.
13. I manage farms near their IL turbines. Just don't do it.
14. Your taxes will go up (property)
15. You might screw up your estate plans.
16. The companies are whores.
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Agreed. Outside a handful of very small areas, Iowa has to be one of the most unnatural states in the country. It's all crop land and brown water.
Jesus, that’s literally where I live. My parents live on 78 and my place is just off 78. Near Winfield.
I've had landowners want them even after trying to talk them out of it. But I try. It really does make me sick to see what happens to the land during construction. Some of the land in N Henry county if properly drained could be having 300 bu/acre of corn if the soil is taken care of (no compaction). It will have the hell pounded out of it. I managed a class B farm that whether permitting we are thinking 300 this year. Been close.
Used to pull grain wagons on 218 when it was 2 lanes. That was an adventure.
Bunch of bullshit here.
No, there is more coming out about a small percentage of people who are highly sensitive to sounds and other things like emf's. I wouldn't believe it either if I wasn't married to one and it does show up on certain genes. One of my kids got that too. Since it is a small subset, it tends to get dismissed. I bought a meter and when we stay at a place I can measure certain things and can tell even before I do it what the reading will be.
I also know people (myself) that can locate water lines and gas lines with 2 wires. No explanation for it is known, but it works. Used to do it for a telephone company burying cables.
I also know people (myself) that can locate water lines and gas lines with 2 wires. No explanation for it is known, but it works. Used to do it for a telephone company burying cables.
I just had to go over 218 with the wagons. On 150th street south of swedesburg.
I don’t want windmills ruining this view
Dowsing isn't real man. Literally one of the oldest grifts in the book.
You already are as you're watching hockey. 😆I don’t want windmills ruining this view
He's correct, as east, south and north would be ok to have windmills in the background.😆
Had a tile contractor tell me that. I went out and located a really old tile. The guy called me up and said I was wrong. I was off 1 foot.
It’s supposed to be nice tomorrow so I can get a sunset pic. It’s unreal.
Sometimes we took grain to Olds. I hate to think about the landscape changed so much. I can't pm either.
You should listen to that contractor, he's correct. Divination is just not a real thing.
You should go to a country that is under developed. Ukraine when not at war has astonishing nighttime skies. Flying over what used to be the iron curtain is just like what Clancy depicted in Red Storm Rising.
I have been to Page County. I spent part of one my summer college jobs in Page County. Page County had huge issues before windmills
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