Sharing a wall with the neighbor's cows?

[[486]]

My neighbor came by tonight and said he's moving his herd to the rest of the house that I don't occupy. He's been leasing the house for 20 years or so. No problem there, not even my business. Then he asked if he could run his electric fence charger off an extension cord for my shop. I'm totally fine with that.

Then the big ask came. He wanted to know if he could buy water from me so that he wouldn't have to haul it. He would basically fill up my bathtub and they'd drink from that like a stock tank. My only real concern with this is the wear and tear on the well. Granted the thing got a clean bill of health when I had it inspected before buying the place, but that's putting a metric fucton of mileage on it compared to what I do now. We're talking 60-70 head at any given time, so probably an average of 1000g a day.

AI seems to think it will only bump my electricity bill by about $10 a month. If I do agree to this, what do I charge him? I know this is a fairly common practice in these parts, with water being scarce. My uncle used to do the same thing for his neighbors. But I have no idea what fair compensation would be. I would probably take whatever he paid me and put it towards an "oh **** the well broke down" savings account anyway.

He's a nice old guy, but it's not like we're close friends. I'm just happy he doesn't bitch about all of the target plinking or WOT tuning that comes out of my shop. But, if he wasn't an old guy, I'd probably tell him to haul the water the 3 miles, and still might.

Does anyone else do this? What's a fair rate? How much does it smell?

 

[[486]]

Here's a picture from my uncle that used to do this for his neighbors.

 

[Aisin]

Shouldn’t you be working on your house?

 

[[486]]

Shouldn’t you be working on your house?

 

[[486]]

helped my dad be a ****** today, so took the day off

 

[Aisin]

Any day helping dad is a day well spent. I miss my dad. Need to go home and see him.

 

[bad zuki]

helped my dad be a ****** today, so took the day off

He needs help being ******ed?

Mine does that on his own

 

[Dethmachinefab]

Is the tub upstairs?

 

[[486]]

He needs help being ******ed?

Mine does that on his own

it's mostly emotional support, honestly
he's gonna make the same vehicular mistakes he's made a hundred times before, and when I try and steer him away from repeating them it just gets him emotional, so...

oh well, day off so I get to **** around with the plating tank
trying a stainless sheet cathode to pull the copper out with, maybe it'll work better than a copper cathode which only seems to make powder that falls off with the slightest disturbance (so I'm not able to remove the copper from the silver (and all other impurities))

 

[WhiteTrash303]

We're going to need to know the flow rate on the tub. Is it permitted?

 

[Clb]

Go
OUTSIDE
this spinnoff chitt

 

[bad zuki]

it's mostly emotional support, honestly

Emotional support child.

 

[[486]]

Emotional support child.

Kinda like the threads on here where people just wanna be told they did right no matter what **** they ****ed up, but I just need to suggest possible improvements.

some kinda philosophical answers stuck in there, maybe
'quit trying to improve the wrong things
focus on improving the ephemeral woo-woo emotional **** at the expense of quantifiable tangibles
pay more attention to what you've imagined the neighbors would think, but never anything which could be positive'

I dunno.

 

[Provience]

Go
OUTSIDE
this spinnoff chitt

First time seeing a spinoff thread? The cow picture justifies the entire thing

 

[Clb]

It's just lame...
You guys need a better hobby , go outside and play.
Spinniffs

 

[BUCKLAND]

Didn’t read the other thread

If for real, charge for water accordingly and negotiate a beef deal for the freezer.

 

[[486]]

It's just lame...
You guys need a better hobby , go outside and play.
Spinniffs

 

[Splib]

No mention of the calfs. Benefits. When they are weaning, they will suck, suckle anything that is even close to the size, form, temperature and smoothness of a cow udder.

Not sure if one would drill a hole through the wall, kinda like a stall in the restroom/shower at the Winnemucca NV Rte 80 Mavericks truck stop Punjabi room. Hang your turban and hold on. Or rig up a chain link fence to produce the produce with.

They will milk it dry. Way more volume than any mortal man has. Not sure if pics will post here An animation would get more people inside and limit their outdoor bull****.