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71PA_Highboy

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1/4 mile from my house and new as of yesterday.

ThePanzerFuhrer & bgaidan

How bad is this gonna fuck up my peace, quiet, and hamony? Am I gonna need a new shop stereo?


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I have one about a mile away. Fuckers are noisy. Some nights in the summer I have to close my windows.
 
Surpisingly the freeway isn't that noisy.... but I do hear the cars and bikes that open it up because there are no cops in the area.

My parents house was 2+ miles from I-84 but the grade up from Benton City had the sound magnified and worse than here. DWT knows the area.
 
It’s probably gonna piss you off. The truck traffic is what all the people complain about. The actual quarry itself isn’t all that bad. The dump trucks continually going by from 6-6 is where the problem will come from.
 
dude not aware he lives on an off ramp?:laughing:

I had one back in the day about that far away, I could hear the crusher when they ran it. It was background noise like everything else. Enjoy your new shooting range
 
It’s definitely not as big a deal as you probably fear, especially if dump truck traffic isn’t funneled past your house.

I used to live less than half a mile from an active quarry in Raleigh. you felt the blasts ( usually midday/ afternoon) but it wasn’t really obnoxious at all.

People still pay $500k to buy a 3 br house ( which is above median price for the county) in the red circled neighborhood across the street from the quarry.

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Lot of them around here, pretty rare to hear much.

Friend lives right next to a stockpile yard where they load trains... like maybe 200ft between the gravel piles and his place.

Other than them thinking they somehow own everything it's usually not too bad.

They were so "fuck you, sue us" they put a gate on their fence and decided they didn't need permission to run their trucks and equipment down his private road, on his land, to access the gate.
When we blocked access, they tried to sue, full on in their minds that it was their road.

Well that resulted in a 40+ yr old survey being redone and not only did they not have any ownership of that land, but they also didn't own a swath about 75ft wide in their "yard" that they had cleared and built a road on.
They had to move a bunch of stuff and the gate was allowed to exist only as an emergency access, something MSHA required.

That lasted a while and it was back to regular use. Pit only open around April to October (most don't run in winter, too expensive dealing with frozen ground and equipment, especially stuff like conveyors, screen and wash plants, dredges.

One day maybe 2-3 years later a crew showed up marking and flagging the road. I happened to be outside (worked out of there for several years) so went to see what was going on.

They had decided they were paving it cause the soft hands libruls (haha) whined it was bumpy. We deliberately left it like that to keep people from hauling ass. Plus running logging equipment on it kept it kind of rough.
It got paved and they through a fit when we ran a 45 ton feller buncher in it and it busted it up.
No kidding tried to sue for damages... of not their road :laughing:


So just keep that in mind. Remember the concrete plant that lead to Killdozer...
 
I used to live by a bunch, dump truck traffic was the worst part as panzer pointed out. Usually good for a decapation a year from some dipshit on a motorcycle tboneing a dump truck making a left turn into them.
 
71PA_Highboy said:
1/4 mile from my house and new as of yesterday.

ThePanzerFuhrer & bgaidan

How bad is this gonna fuck up my peace, quiet, and hamony? Am I gonna need a new shop stereo?


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You're down in a little bit of a valley, so the terrain will be on your side somewhat. You're still going to know when they're blasting. Biggest suck will be the truck traffic.

They obviously won't be going right by your house, but you'll be dealing with them on the main road. I'm questioning what their actual traffic route will be. The highway access sucks from there and that road isn't exactly designed for quarry traffic. That property fronts another road to the north, but that one's really not any better or worse for traffic or access.

GIS says they've owned that parcel since at least 2000. The Jamestown pit is only a couple miles north of there and doesn't look even close to be tapped out. They may just be in the earliest stages of permitting or trying to keep an idle permit alive. They haven't done anything out there in 25+ years....good chance they won't do anything for another 25+ years.

This is their Jamestown pit, which is less than 2 miles from there. Seems like they have at least a few years left here.
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Articles from 1999 when they first applied for the permit.
greensboro.com

RALEIGH COMPANY TO PROPOSE GRANITE QUARRY\ IF APPROVED, MINING WILL NOT BEGIN AT THE HIGH POINT SITE FOR 12 TO 15 YEARS.

A Raleigh mining company wants permission to dig and blast a large quarry southeast of High Point.
greensboro.com greensboro.com
greensboro.com

HEARING TODAY ON ROCK QUARRY\ THE HIGH POINT CITY COUNCIL IS CONSIDERING A MINING COMPANY'S REQUEST TO OPEN A QUARRY JUST SOUTH OF THE KERSEY VALLEY LANDFILL.

A proposed rock quarry will be the subject of a public hearing before the City Council today.
greensboro.com greensboro.com
greensboro.com

RARE TIE VOTE LEAVES QUARRY IN LIMBO\ A PROPOSED QUARRY DOES NOT RECEIVE THE HIGH POINT PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION'S FAVOR, BUT A NEW SHOPPING CENTER DEVELOPMENT DOES.

An unusual tie vote by High Point's planning and zoning commission left a proposed rock quarry in limbo Tuesday evening.
greensboro.com greensboro.com

One of those says they expected Jamestown to only have 10-15 years left....and that was in '99. 🤷‍♂️

That last one suggest it didn't get city approval at the the time....can't find much else after that. They have been maintaining an active storm water permit the whole time though.
 
SomeGuyFromOlympia said:
dude not aware he lives on an off ramp?:laughing:

I had one back in the day about that far away, I could hear the crusher when they ran it. It was background noise like everything else. Enjoy your new shooting range
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That isn't an off ramp. It is the dead end street I live on.

How long does it take to develop a site like that to start actual quarrying? There has to be some lead time for that shit - a month, a year, ???

Thanks for the input!
 
71PA_Highboy said:
That isn't an off ramp. It is the dead end street I live on.

How long does it take to develop a site like that to start actual quarrying? There has to be some lead time for that shit - a month, a year, ???

Thanks for the input!
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If the DOT or county starts improving that main road for truck traffic, it'll be a good sign that shit's about to start happening.
 
71PA_Highboy said:
That isn't an off ramp. It is the dead end street I live on.

How long does it take to develop a site like that to start actual quarrying? There has to be some lead time for that shit - a month, a year, ???

Thanks for the input!
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Idk if they have a permit a week or two. Doesn’t take long to get going. Draining the hole will take the longest. A week to do the drilling and once shot the crusher move in and do their thing
 
Tandem and tri-axle dump trucks like to roll over and play dead like dogs at least once a week. So enjoy the new class of idiot monkey jockeys causing accidents and chipped windshields.
 
Heidelburg kept a couple quaries around here on the idle list, because they didnt want to have to pay to reclaim the land.
We had to go to one occasionaly to fix fenseing and put up new signeage
One ended up being sold to a developer for a supppsed subdivision.
And the other sold cause rich guy wanted a lake.
 
You’ll soon get to hear every straight piped 3406 in the area singing a song as they down shift into the pit. Hopefully they have an agreement with the town to turn Jake’s off in the area
 
71PA_Highboy said:
That isn't an off ramp. It is the dead end street I live on.

How long does it take to develop a site like that to start actual quarrying? There has to be some lead time for that shit - a month, a year, ???

Thanks for the input!
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the one down fall, the trucks will pound the road into nothing
but as a kid, I had a dirt bike, and the kids that lived at the quarry had dirt bikes, so we made the best out of it. They would have fresh hill climbs all the time :grinpimp:
 
Fuck off Karen. The fact that you're making this thread says you'll be pissy no matter what they do.

If I were you I'd just be happy it's something industrial and not some Sofried type twat looking to whip up a subdivision for carpetbagging commiefornians.
 
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