equine signs

[amenfarm]

We have been contacted about a sewer line coming across our land--we need to post Equine Liability Signs for our donkey. I've seen these but, my husband says they are for horse shows--I say they are both.http://www.horse.com/item/equine-liability-signs/SLT700541/ and

http://www.horse.com/item/supplemental-equine-liability-sign/SLT700542/. anybody know or have a different sign to use for Tennessee?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I don't know the answer to your question but I wanted to let you know if you need them to say something different or a specialty sign we can make them custom for you. www.signinnovations.net

 

[goodhors]

I guess it can't hurt to post them, it will depend on the laws in your
State.

In Michigan, you need to post them if you are a commercial
horse business. Selling horses, giving lessons, boarding,
or maybe doing a clinic for 4-H, those kinds of activities.

If you don't KNOW the laws, you probably should look up
the Horse Council in your state for a person to contact
and ask them for answers. If you are just a small hobby farm
with 1-2 equines, I don't think you need to post signs for
utility workers on your property. You WILL need to contain
the donkey away from the work, so he can't get into danger
or hurt the workers. Kind of like keeping a bull, have to
keep him contained away from people who come in to work
on your place.

You can do a search for your state named horse council or maybe
just search to see if you have an Equine Liability law in your state.
Then you have do find out details. We have the law, but private
horse farms, no commercial activity, doesn't need the signs. No
one works in the horse area, with horses, except the Vet and Farrier.
I think you would get better answers from the local Horse Council than
just looking around on the Internet.

Just out of curiosity, does the sewer have a written right-of-way thru the
property? Our land has no right-of-ways except beside the road, 18ft from
the center line. People can walk there, plow in phone cables, dump snow
from plows, dig out the ditches for better run-off of rain. Too bad if you
decided to garden there or planted trees. Should have known better.

We do have a large drainage ditch that the road ditches drain into, but when
we checked with the County, the ditch is OURS. Privately dug, not the County
Ditch to deal with. No, they wouldn't come
clean it out, if the ground flooded, it was OUR problem. We got with
the neighbors who got the ditch water after we do, and we all put in cement drain
tubes thru the properties. We were tired of being flooded after heavy rains,
water taking DAYS to FINALLY run off to the river down yonder. This
backyard ditch is at the bottom of the runoff from all the fields across
the road using a 3ft tube under the road the County put in. That plus
both sides of the road (uphill both ways) drain into this ditch, so it can have
an AMAZING amount of water in a short time. I have photos of floods
covering the 5ft fence posts we have for fences at the meeting point!

The tubes have made an incredible difference, with water SHOOTING thru and on
past us! I keep our short open section of ditch sprayed and clean, so nothing
slows the water flow into the tube. Does make a difference with almost no
water lingering after 12 hours. That is about all the time needed to drain
everything above us into the ditches. Then we start drying out. Sure helped
when we got those 6-8" rainfalls in very short time spans.

Make SURE to have photos of your property BEFORE and AFTER the work is
done, to make them get fences back up correctly, fill is done well to prevent
getting mired in, seeded correctly for cover. They may need to install locked
gates if they need access, to prevent your donkey getting out. Might also
need signs put on THE GATES to warn of loose livestock inside. There are
LOTS of problems with having right-of-ways on your property, people needing
to access the property.

Hope they are putting in big enough sewer pipe to make it drain quickly in storms.

 

[amenfarm]

goodhors
this is for a gravityfed sanitary sewer-No, I really want them to Go away. we will be sending them the must do list including cross fencing ,locking gates, libitily for injuried livestock and since your very fine suggestion taking before and after photos and not signing off untill every last thing is completed. you woes with the water across you proterty sound much like ours. When it rains we have the pasture fill up at the low point, quickly--but since we keep debris out of the ditch and the county scraped it, it will empty in about 30 min--almost all the time. the people around us love that because, before we moved in the road would flood, no body keep debris out of the ditch. what i don't like is a slow days long rain that leaves the rain no where to go because the ditch and creek are full. We keep the donkey's feet treated weekly with absorbine liniment and horseshoer's secret sealant during the rainy wet months. I checked with my insurance company about the sign and they did say that would be good to post.