Something else nobody may have thought about is the added emissions and wasted fuel from moving all that equipment around at night. You’d think the environmental crowd would prefer not to have heavy machinery constantly transported around just so it’s out of sight overnight.
That said, I do agree they shouldn’t block anyone’s driveway or mailbox.
What about town or city projects? When they pave your neighborhood road for example?
Yeah, blocking driveways or mailboxes should not happen unless they are just unloading/loading the equipment and it’s for a brief period.
Paving crews are rare occurrence around here compared to the tree guys. At least once a month we get the full complement of tree equipment; crane, log truck, industrial sized chipper and truck etc. Fortunately, there are long driveways and spacing between them for these monstrosities to park.
The county is reconfiguring sidewalks at intersections. Most of the equipment leaves at night. Ther is a settling pond near a road and the county leaves sand, dirt, and gravel there. No large equipment though.
Sounds like a big waste of tax payers money, not to mention the added emissions that did not need to happen… True the equipment needs to be moved out of the way for safety and kept together, but not driven miles away just because it is unsightly or whatever…
That would soooo be me if I had the money… I’d use a skid steer just to go check the mail… 
It’s not just being unsightly. I surely wouldn’t want all that equipment around. Those big machines can leak a lot of nasty fluids and everyone around here has well water. Only take 1 part per billion to contaminate a well.
I would think they could/would leak while being used also, at least the ones I have worked on or around seemed to leak more running than off at night… When I was doing the commercial and industrial equipment for the Masonry company, we had a few contracts up at Fort Campbell and what a PITA to do any work/maintenance on them, Very strict equipment standards up there… I would think the same could be had when being used around in the well water places, also diapers can be used for many small leaks, just a pain to deal with when time for repairs or maintenance…
I had to design and build a custom hinged dumpable sand box for the side of our main mortar mixer with compartments (x amount of sand per bag of mix) that the engineers took multiple daily samples of… Meaning they were a huge pain to deal with… So I’d imagine the same could happen anywhere when well water was a concern…
We left all the equipment on the job site, as well as all the different projects being built at the time from other company’s… Time frame, 2001- 2002, so right after 9/11…
We had to either buy a new Lull forklift (1044) or had just bought one, but only the newest equipment went up to Fort Campbell, if something happened then we either had to replace with fairly new or rent a new(er) equipment…
Equipment left on a job site is one thing. Someone who owns a construction company and keeps their equipment on their own property is another.
That is very true, but your 1st response to me:
Was in response to:
This is what I think your response may have directed to…
Most businesses around here would be drummed out of business in a heartbeat if they knowingly leaked fluids on customer property. For example, if the tree guys drove a truck on your driveway and left engine or hydraulic oil spots on it, there would be heck to pay for that. The U.S. mail trucks are more likely to drip oil than the private contractor’s equipment. Ask me how I know that one.
A few years back, my neighbor hired a guy to clear about 25 oaks from his property. The guy blew a hydraulic line and practically killed himself rushing to put down PIG blankets to catch the fluid that was leaking.