there aint nothing quite like good neighbors

[farmbif]

my faith in humanity is once again renewed.
here's the rest of the story. Yesterday morning I headed out to parts unknown in the wilds of western North Carolina to get another antique farmall tractor...
It was a very long drive though many miles of twisting turning roads up and down the mountains about 60 miles east of lake lure pulling a two axle trailer. well I got the old "barn find" loaded on the trailer. it had probably been sitting in that barn at least 30 years, rode hard and put up after decades of use and abuse.
by the time I got home about midnight I was worn out and exhausted tired pulling in my driveway I miscalculated a curve and landed half way down the slope.
the trailer was stuck fast on the axles at about a 40 degree angle. I put the 1 ton chevy in 4 wheel drive low and the wheel just spun. stuck, really stuck.
this morning a neighbor I dont know pulled up the driveway and asked if I needed help. the man came back a little later with his loader and picked up the trailer and put it back on the driveway, took about 2 minutes. Now ive got a new friend in a neighbor I never before knew.

[CastingFool]

Awesome!

[Winger Ed.]

Cool.

After reading and hearing horror stories, I have a great appreciation for the neighbors I have too.
Well,,, almost all of them anyway.

[country gent]

Good neighbors are a blessing. A good neighbor will stop just to make sure you dont need help or if he sees something amiss. When young the neighborhood boys would mow and do odd chores for the older people, take them fishing and in the fall hunting. The girls would help with baking canning and odds and ends. The way a neighborhood should be and or a community. I learned a lot from those neighbors wood working trapping hunting fishing mechanics.

Glad to here it still is done in places

[farmbif]

yup I sure was stuck

thank god for good people

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[Shawlerbrook]

Love stories like that. There are still good people in the world.

[farmbif]

ive heard the expression pay it forward
well I'm going to let one good deed lead to another and send a young friend in florida a care package with a bunch of primed 270 brass, some 270 spire points, an old Lyman mold 429 that stamped 448 but bullet looks exactly like 429360 design, and a big bag of 55 grain sprite points for his 223 shooting

[BLAHUT]

There are still a few good people around. Glad You found one, one found you..

[rancher1913]

i managed to pick up a hydraulic hose maker and a metric crap ton of new hose fittings at an estate sale yesterday and was going through all the stuf when a neighbor called and wanted to use my loader because he had blown a hydraulic line on his and with it being sunday, nobody was open to make a new one. told him to bring his bad hoses and a trailer so one way or the other he could get his work done. low and behold we found the right fittings and hose and had him 2 replacement hoses made in no time. hopefully word dont get out to far and wide or i might be making hoses full time on the weekends because thats always when stuff breaks.

[jonp]

Good neighbors are few, bad ones will get you to sell. Been there on both ends.

[Alstep]

We're very fortunate here, have wonderful neighbors on our road. And good friends not far away. It's still rural, sort of, but city slickers are moving in on the farms that are going under, and bringing their city ways.

[contender1]

Yep,,, good neighbors are a treasure. I try to be one myself. So far,, al my neighbors & I seem to be getting along just fine. And we've helped each other out when necessary.

60 miles east of Lake Lure,,, ??
I'm in Lake Lure. You were close to me. Where was this tractor?

[kootne]

Some folks are neighbors, and some are just adjacent landowners.

[rockrat]

Got that here. Neighbors and people that live next door

[john.k]

Had a good neighbour many years,last year he passed,his children have been renting the house to the greatest lot of misfits and dropouts Ive ever seen .......damn big dogs that bark all night,despite being locked in 24/7 ......four younguns gotta be in the drug trade ,I was stuck down by the dividing fence a while back (wet ground) ,one of them comes over "Whatcha doin by the fence so long"...............anyhoo ,today I see one of them trying to start a discard mower ......rental inspection day to- morrow.

[pworley1]

Good neighbors are a blessing from the LORD. Always try to be one.

[buckwheatpaul]

my faith in humanity is once again renewed.
here's the rest of the story. Yesterday morning I headed out to parts unknown in the wilds of western North Carolina to get another antique farmall tractor...
It was a very long drive though many miles of twisting turning roads up and down the mountains about 60 miles east of lake lure pulling a two axle trailer. well I got the old "barn find" loaded on the trailer. it had probably been sitting in that barn at least 30 years, rode hard and put up after decades of use and abuse.
by the time I got home about midnight I was worn out and exhausted tired pulling in my driveway I miscalculated a curve and landed half way down the slope.
the trailer was stuck fast on the axles at about a 40 degree angle. I put the 1 ton chevy in 4 wheel drive low and the wheel just spun. stuck, really stuck.
this morning a neighbor I dont know pulled up the driveway and asked if I needed help. the man came back a little later with his loader and picked up the trailer and put it back on the driveway, took about 2 minutes. Now ive got a new friend in a neighbor I never before knew.

We are blessed to live in the country.....they are the cream of crop and very likely to come to help! You did well and got a new friend to boot!

[armoredman]

My neighbor is my mother in law, and she is a saint.

[Rapier]

Yep, came around a tree next to the lower pond, grass was dry, not the red clay under, slid off sideways right over the edge of the pond's drop off, two wheels down in the soupy clay. I had to climb off into the pond. In a few minutes while down in the mud in the pond I hear; "You need some help" was the neighbor across the street. Yep I am high centered.
A 4x4 tractor is 0 effect if the wheels are not touching solid ground. He goes off and comes back with his father's 50 hp 4x4 tractor, just drug me out of the pond. Last bird shoot, I gave him all of my dozen birds.

[MaryB]

Good neighbors are a blessing. A good neighbor will stop just to make sure you dont need help or if he sees something amiss. When young the neighborhood boys would mow and do odd chores for the older people, take them fishing and in the fall hunting. The girls would help with baking canning and odds and ends. The way a neighborhood should be and or a community. I learned a lot from those neighbors wood working trapping hunting fishing mechanics.

Glad to here it still is done in places

Where the heck is the like button! This is how I grew up. Even out on the farm neighbors helped each other. Grandma had a big outdoor kitchen so a lot of canning for 5 or 6 families got done there with Grandma teaching the youngsters how to do it right! If someone lost a combine or was injured during harvest all the neighbors showed up to do it for them and get the crop in the bins. No payment asked ever. Not even for fuel. Of course the crew got fed... but even there everyone pitched in to cook, 10-20 guys can eat a LOT!