How many of you have neighbors that complain about loading sleds late at night or early in the morning before you leave to go ride, and how do you deal with it?
I have elderly neighbors that live kitty corner from me that have complained multiple times over the years about loud snowmobiles. March of the second year I moved into my place the morning "rally point" was at my house where everyone met and loaded in the trailer. They left a note with the dates and times of three weekends when the "disturbances" occurred. Recently I got a phone call about having the door open running a sled at 11:00pm to align a track. Got a whole spiel about how they wake up at 5:00am every day and work 12-14 hr days on their "ranch" and don't need to be woken up late at night. Kinda half threatened to turn me in for city noise ordinance violation. Which is nothing louder than 55db at your property line between the hours of 8pm and 7am. 50-60db is in the range of a normal conversation. It's 215' from my garage door to the corner of their house and 180' from the end of my driveway. So it's not like we're butted up right next to each other. They are in county and I am the last house in city limits.
My neighbors directly next door and the other ones same distance kitty corner the other direction have never complained.
We have 2-1/2 to 3hr drive wherever we go so it means loading sleds at 5:30-6:00am. My riding buddies are scattered across the county so it doesn't make a lot of sense to drive around the night before and load. On top of that I usually work late all week so I'm getting the sled ready late the night before. So I'm sometimes loading in the back of the truck at 12:00/1:00am. I'm not a huge fan of leaving my stuff out in the middle of the night either with the rate of theft in this town.
Ultimately, I think I just need to get the heck out of town, but with real estate prices here easier said than done! Before next season I think I'm going to tell them they have to pick if they want me making noise at 12am or 5am when they supposedly are already up.
I have elderly neighbors that live kitty corner from me that have complained multiple times over the years about loud snowmobiles. March of the second year I moved into my place the morning "rally point" was at my house where everyone met and loaded in the trailer. They left a note with the dates and times of three weekends when the "disturbances" occurred. Recently I got a phone call about having the door open running a sled at 11:00pm to align a track. Got a whole spiel about how they wake up at 5:00am every day and work 12-14 hr days on their "ranch" and don't need to be woken up late at night. Kinda half threatened to turn me in for city noise ordinance violation. Which is nothing louder than 55db at your property line between the hours of 8pm and 7am. 50-60db is in the range of a normal conversation. It's 215' from my garage door to the corner of their house and 180' from the end of my driveway. So it's not like we're butted up right next to each other. They are in county and I am the last house in city limits.
My neighbors directly next door and the other ones same distance kitty corner the other direction have never complained.
We have 2-1/2 to 3hr drive wherever we go so it means loading sleds at 5:30-6:00am. My riding buddies are scattered across the county so it doesn't make a lot of sense to drive around the night before and load. On top of that I usually work late all week so I'm getting the sled ready late the night before. So I'm sometimes loading in the back of the truck at 12:00/1:00am. I'm not a huge fan of leaving my stuff out in the middle of the night either with the rate of theft in this town.
Ultimately, I think I just need to get the heck out of town, but with real estate prices here easier said than done! Before next season I think I'm going to tell them they have to pick if they want me making noise at 12am or 5am when they supposedly are already up.
on their Porch should help escalate the fight.
. It does have a speedwerx pipe on it though and is about as obnoxious as one of those can get. I told my roommate that was enough rapping his daughters sled at that hour.
