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What do you consider a "Pipeline", and who does it belong to?
Is this near your house that provides a service for you or in a farm field that simply crosses your property?
A pipe can have anything from high pressure gas to no pressure wastewater.
I don't have a pipeline or burried utility lines crossing the farm other than my own, or field drain tile, but neighbors who do have utility lines fence across them. I've never saw a gate where the utilty goes under a fence.
Be sure to call the "One Call" number probably in the front of your phone book a couple days before you dig, they'll send someone out to locate any underground lines or pipes.
Frank.
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I'd check the abstract on your property to be sure but more than likly Marathon has an easment allowing them access to repair or maimtain above the line. There can be all sorts of contracts, easments, agreements, etc. etc. I've never saw a pipeline or any utility mow across anyone's property here. The farmer farms right over it like it wasn't there.
I'd call again asking for someone who really knows what's going on. If they mow above the line, then yes, I'd put a gate in rather than them call later demanding a gate for their access.
Frank.
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A few miles north of me is a major east/west natural gas pipeline that most all the small towns within ten or fifteen miles feed from. The only place I've seen a gate is where there is some kind of I suppose shut off valves where the pipe comes above ground and a little building next to it. I don't know how many miles apart those are but they are always right next to the road and heavily fenced in. From there on across the rest of the fields the farmers have farmed across it since it's been there, probably 25 years.
One of my wife's younger cousins used to work for a power company that had the big steel towers that go long distance with real heavy electric lines. They cross lots of farms along the way. His job was to walk the path of the lines every summer checking the towers. He said they had easments to drive thru a crop under the lines to repair in an emergency but otherwise would wait till the crop was harvested for routine repairs.
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Perhaps you want to build your own fence as a something to do project, but I'll make another suggestion.
I used to do all my own fence work to keep livestock on the different farms but the last couple times I needed fence I found that contracting it out was less costly. There are two somewhat local firms here that do custom fencing. I've only dealt with one but I haven't heard anything bad about the other one. They furnish all materials, labor, cleanup, etc. for less money that I could have bought the materials only. You decide what type of fence, wood posts, steel posts, gates, three barb wires four, five whatever you want they'll give you na quote and have it done in a day or less. Look in your phone book for fence builders or check with your county extension office they may have a list of fence builders. Get a signed contract, and don't be afraid to ask to see their prior jobs, if they did it right they'll be glad to show you.
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Even with a fence it's not unusual to find old washing machines, kitchen stoves, matresses, etc., and just plain garbage in the county gravel road ditches outside the fence.
Some of the garbage dumpers weren't real brilliant, they put their old magazines with the address labels still attached in the garbage bags. They got to clean up the ditch and pay the littering fine both.
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