This seems a bit egregious for a lot, it’s just over 50 ft wide and nearly a mile and half long. It looks more like a developer made the “lot” to develop the rest of the nearby homes then managed to get a house built on it.
I get it, but there’s a logic to it being so long if you think about it: flooding. You want river access without risking your house getting washed away. As I said, it’s an old lot layout method - like from the mid 1800s or earlier, with ties to how things were laid out in France originally.
It could actually be good for hunting. Most states only require the animal be shot on your property, so that narrow strip could be good if animals move across it regularly.
I know, but it’s insanity to fire a weapon on a strip ft wide imo. Bow hunting, I guess.
Speaking of, I was out surveying a bunch of river lots like this. The ones I was in were a bit wider - maybe like 200 m x 1200 m kind of thing. They often have cross country ski trails though them, which is a godsend if you’re used to crashing though the understory or regenerating bullshit.
The other thing that was interesting to me was how much human activity these parcels (and the area I was in) had. Old barbed wire growing though trees, junk cars. Toilet seats. Maple syrup operations, murder shacks, you name it. Mindboggling to a guy used to not seeing more than UTV tracks from other crews, or cutlines in terms of disturbance.
Anyway, I was winding my way through one of these river lots and I came across a small wooden box, a bunch of apples, and this pink rock that did not match the regional geology at all. I walked about 10 steps before my inner nerd took over and I went over to look at the rock.
I am holding this thing, turning it over in my hand and I’m like ‘WTF. this thing looks like a stupid pink healing salt lamp thing you see at a massage clinic.’ I keep turning it over and look at the bottom of the rock. It’s totally flat. It’s definitely some healing crystals bullshit but why the fuck is it here? This is the most random thing ever.
I set it down. Grab my gear, get ready to stand up. And boom.
Trail cam on a stick. Face level to me kneeling.
The reality that this is a salt lick and bait station for deer comes crashing home like a ton of bricks. And I’m on camera like an idiot. Guess the station works.
The guy must have laughed his ass off when he collected the camera and reviewed it:
dude walks into frame. Dude walks out of frame. Dude re-enters frame. Dude kneels down fucks with salt lick, with visible confusion on face. Dude looks at camera and realizes he’s a moron
This seems a bit egregious for a lot, it’s just over 50 ft wide and nearly a mile and half long. It looks more like a developer made the “lot” to develop the rest of the nearby homes then managed to get a house built on it.
I get it, but there’s a logic to it being so long if you think about it: flooding. You want river access without risking your house getting washed away. As I said, it’s an old lot layout method - like from the mid 1800s or earlier, with ties to how things were laid out in France originally.
Also, ‘great for hunting’ in the ad. Lmao.
It could actually be good for hunting. Most states only require the animal be shot on your property, so that narrow strip could be good if animals move across it regularly.
I know, but it’s insanity to fire a weapon on a strip ft wide imo. Bow hunting, I guess.
Speaking of, I was out surveying a bunch of river lots like this. The ones I was in were a bit wider - maybe like 200 m x 1200 m kind of thing. They often have cross country ski trails though them, which is a godsend if you’re used to crashing though the understory or regenerating bullshit.
The other thing that was interesting to me was how much human activity these parcels (and the area I was in) had. Old barbed wire growing though trees, junk cars. Toilet seats. Maple syrup operations, murder shacks, you name it. Mindboggling to a guy used to not seeing more than UTV tracks from other crews, or cutlines in terms of disturbance.
Anyway, I was winding my way through one of these river lots and I came across a small wooden box, a bunch of apples, and this pink rock that did not match the regional geology at all. I walked about 10 steps before my inner nerd took over and I went over to look at the rock.
I am holding this thing, turning it over in my hand and I’m like ‘WTF. this thing looks like a stupid pink healing salt lamp thing you see at a massage clinic.’ I keep turning it over and look at the bottom of the rock. It’s totally flat. It’s definitely some healing crystals bullshit but why the fuck is it here? This is the most random thing ever.
I set it down. Grab my gear, get ready to stand up. And boom.
Trail cam on a stick. Face level to me kneeling.
The reality that this is a salt lick and bait station for deer comes crashing home like a ton of bricks. And I’m on camera like an idiot. Guess the station works.
The guy must have laughed his ass off when he collected the camera and reviewed it:
dude walks into frame. Dude walks out of frame. Dude re-enters frame. Dude kneels down fucks with salt lick, with visible confusion on face. Dude looks at camera and realizes he’s a moron
Fuck me.