Two Zimmatics, passing in the night.

My sprinkler on the left, neighbor's on the right.

So over a year ago I was planting corn over east and left for the night with my sprinkler parked facing west and a little south. I thought this would be ok since I was going to move it first thing in the morning. Well my next field neighbor started his sprinkler that evening and as it came around the two sprinklers hit, breaking off the end gun of his sprinkler. This upsets him, and he calls and announces that he is going to call a surveyor to mark the quarter line so we can find out whose sprinkler is overlapping on whose land and how one of us is going to have to "chop off the end of their sprinkler." he repeatedly states his conviction that our sprinkler quite a ways over on his land. So the surveyor comes and marks the quarter line which shows that, not only is our sprinkler well on our side of the property line, he is farming about 8 feet of land that is technically ours. He then made a big show of blading up several rows of his corn and "moving" the road between the field over about eight feet. Of course the road had been there for about 50 years so we are now left with a big ol' gap between the fields where nothing will grow.

He never got around to "chopping off" the end of his sprinkler.

So the other evening he stops by to say that he has started his sprinkler (mine was already running), he thinks they are going to hit, and he is going home for the night( he lives about 20 miles away.)

That is why I have this picture taken 21 minutes after midnight, watching two machines travel towards each other at three feet per minute, trying to decide if they are on a collision course.