I woke up to a TAOS Hummer this morning.

Posted by 2Xplorations Jonsered may know more about this but Ive had peace loving earthship hippie types come out and run me off "their BLM land" more than once so what are they hiding the soil aint no good for dope farmin!

Stand your ground 2x. I've recently had a lesson from the BLM office about this. The land is leased, not owned. If its cattle ranching, they are leasing the grass and water. If its mining, they are leasing the subsurface minerals. You can camp on it, walk across it, hunt on it etc. Next time somebody tries to run you off land that you are sure is BLM, tell them to call the sheriff. If they decline, call the sheriff for them.

Posted by Jonsered Stand your ground 2x. I've recently had a lesson from the BLM office about this. The land is leased, not owned. If its cattle ranching, they are leasing the grass and water. If its mining, they are leasing the subsurface minerals. You can camp on it, walk across it, hunt on it etc. Next time somebody tries to run you off land that you are sure is BLM, tell them to call the sheriff. If they decline, call the sheriff for them.

I suspected such, next time I'll try that. I check in on a prospecting forum from time to time, there seems to be similar gripes about roads being fenced off etc. Just west of Roswell there were some ruins I wanted to see, drove down a well marked county road and found: a locked gate no trespassing signs and all.

Reckon the locals take some advantage of the circumstances?

Its still easier to get around than Texas where there is no BLM land to speak of!

Posted by 2Xplorations Reckon the locals take some advantage of the circumstances?

In good old New Mexico? No way!

Personally, I think it is a sound that comes from deep inside the earth's mantle. it makes underground rocks vibrate and the sound might come up from a weak spot in the earth or from a crack.

Posted by monster Personally, I think it is a sound that comes from deep inside the earth's mantle. it makes underground rocks vibrate and the sound might come up from a weak spot in the earth or from a crack.

you mean from down where the Oompa Loompas live?

Posted by 2Xplorations you mean from down where the Oompa Loompas live?

yep

actually, when I was at my grandma's I think I heard it in the middle of the night, but it sounded like a diesel engine, so thats what I think it was.

Posted by monster actually, when I was at my grandma's I think I heard it in the middle of the night, but it sounded like a diesel engine, so thats what I think it was.

Earth tremors can sound like that; like a diesel truck going full bore down a highway, and then fading off. When I experienced one that was what I first thought was, but of coarse a diesel truck doesn't shake the floor!

The Taos hum is a constant hum.

I was staying with my grandma in Minnesota, near Minneapolis, so there is no tectonic activity there.

Posted by monster I was staying with my grandma in Minnesota, near Minneapolis, so there is no tectonic activity there.

There are many fault lines. Blasting can have a similar feel.

http://www.unionne...ives/faultline.htm

Posted by monster Personally, I think it is a sound that comes from deep inside the earth's mantle. it makes underground rocks vibrate and the sound might come up from a weak spot in the earth or from a crack.

I don't think that would be it or california around the San Andreas fault, which is a huge fault line, there would be numerous "hearings" or hot spots. I have never heard this noise and I live in San Rafael (north of SF), about 30 minutes from the fence that moved 6 feet during one of the CA quakes.

Posted by KublaKhan I once rubbed an elf really hard on the groin. Didn't make a peep.

You have all the fun

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Bob and Leona Ehrfurth say the noise that's been plaguing them for two years sounds something like a rumbling motor, with a subtle vibration that won't quit. Then it stops — especially when they try to show city officials or acoustic experts what they're hearing.

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It's enough to keep 76-year-old Leona from sleeping.

"It's like there's a semi parked right outside with the engine running, but when you look out, there isn't one," she said.

She and her husband, who is 75, have lived in the same house for 42 years. The problem only developed over the last two years.

Her husband can sleep through it but also finds it irritating.

"It doesn't matter if the windows are open or closed — you still hear it," he said. "It's worse in the winter."

When they leave, the don't hear the noise, he said, so they know it's not some health problem the two share.

City officials hired a company for $1,000 worth of testing in the house this spring, but the tester came up with no noise and no significant vibration.

Alderman Andy Nicholson knows exactly what's bugging the Ehrfurths.

"Yeah, I've experienced it," Nicholson said. "It's like an engine thing, a low-frequency vibration. I think it would be an annoyance."

He had hoped the testing equipment could be used inside one of the factories in the area, but Municipal Judge Jerry Hanson wouldn't sign the inspection warrant because there was no reasonable suspicion of a violation.

The Ehrfurths' immediate neighbors haven't complained, although some people, like Nicholson, have said they heard the sound.

The couple said the noise started soon after St. Bernard's Parish across the street had the roofing, chimney and ductwork on a wing of its school redone. However, when the parish staff turned off all of its equipment as a test, the noise continued.

The city's Protection & Welfare Committee planned to take up the matter Wednesday night, when it discusses a report from Predictive Technologies Inc., which did vibration testing at the home.

Leona Ehrfurth said she's had to go to the basement or try to sleep in the sunroom to escape the noise.

"I try to stay in bed, but I get such a bad headache, I can't take it," she said. "We could move, but why should we have to? We didn't cause it."
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