> I confess I'd expected quiet but farm equipment, tractors, etc. make quite a lot of noise. Well, they are less noisy than they used to be (think of the chang

> I confess I'd expected quiet but farm equipment, tractors, etc. make quite a lot of noise. Well, they are less noisy than they used to be (think of the change of noise emissions for cars, though added dampening body), but the usage is now constant. > I realize that a few acres an hour from the city isn't quite enough for solitude, you're mostly in a working food factory (fair enough I suppose); if you want real quiet it seems you might need 50-100+ acres many hours away. If you have meadows around, that's easier: the tractors only pays quick visits in the course of 3 days, once or twice a year, to cut/ted/make bunches of hay. Cutting grass is faster than ploughing a field, it requires less power, and less operations are needed along the year. And it smells good :) Then you have the cattle, but cattle in a meadow is not a nuisance generally. > if you want real quiet it seems you might need 50-100+ acres many hours away. But then you are the one who must maintain all those acres :-)