Mobile phone mast

It's lucrative for you for what's involved. Also it depends on the status of the mast, as in is it servicing a town or just plugging a black spot on the map. Most high status masts are already in place by now but even so you could still be looking at 10k-15k/year

I ended up with a mast on my place only because the original place they wanted to put it was objected to by the locals. I met the farmer in question one day at the mart, he went on to tell me about the campaign that went on against the mast and him, it was a bit of a horror story and a bit of an eye opener.

I used to work for a company that build the masts and do the acquisitions. I think its fairly straightforward

Do swallows live or hunt in the vicinity of the mast? We put in a router system between the house and yard for calving and office use. Since then the swallows have stopped nesting in the yard. They are still active in the fields, but don't know where they nest now.

ABOUT 10000/year plus something for extra aerials. 20yr lease and increases with the Consumer Prices Index /cost of living index, can't remember which.

I'd say once you sign up you're locked into it, It'll be sold as part of the farm here, sure it's another income stream

It is in the middle of a forestry so no neighbors to object. Only hassle I had was with the dept of Ag who recouped forestry payments for the mast and service road they built, yes the land the road used!!

It's a lease contract; originally it was supposed to be for 15 years but they upped the offer by a few quid to get right of renewal on the lease so basically it's there for ever. Payments stay the same (index linked) paid twice per year.

Family reckon I could have gotten more, idk so much they had a set figure and didn't budge plus they always had the option of selecting another site belonging to Coillte. In the end they 100% did what they said they would when it went ahead. The only downside I see is maybe if they ever went to do wind-turbines in the area I'd probably miss out now, but as far as I can tell there won't be.

In fairness it's money for jam, I hope you do well out of it too, but be prepared for hostility if theirs neighbors about.

Like a WiFi bridge? Highly doubt it put the swallows off, we've 5Ghz bridges here with 2.4Ghz Access Points. Plus other IOT mesh networks working at 868MHz-2.4Ghz and the swallows nest under them above them or just manage to sh1t on them for sport.

Only heard the cuckoo call once this year, probably more meat on them.

One company offered me a one off 30000 for thirty year lease..... what world were they in

Itold them that it wasn't enough and I would only do an annual payment, never heard from them since

Some fella in a bit of a hole with his finances would take the hand off them though!

We had a crowd out that wanted to put a mast up around 20 years ago. There was a fair bit of hassle with objectors back then so the oul lad didn't want the stress. Our neighbour was approched and put one in, got a great access road put in too.

Regret it now, it'd be a handy few quid for the folks retirement.

It was more a fear of the signals from the mast at the time. There used to be stories of how there was radiation from the mast etc I didn't experience it first hand but I remember lads scare mongering saying that if yo lived near them they could rot your brain. some people took it serious enough and still do.

I got a great story for you. Two Bachelor farmers in Co Waterford (Now both long dead), got one of the first offers from Eircell (part of Telecom Eireann). The offer was very lucrative with a continuous rolling contract but there was no way the brother could agree. The was no road to the site where the mast was to be, between Waterford and Dungarvan. Eircell was not dissuaded at all. Eircell paved a proper tarmacced road from the farm front, quarter of a mile into the farm. God bless them, it would put any county council road to shame.

The farmers were thrilled and thanked Eircell, but they werent sure about the mast now with all the locals objecting. They decided not to go with the farm and to prove they were good sports about it, they werent one bit bitter about it.

If I'm in the field were our rebounders are I have full bars of coverage but phone won't work.

One thing about phone masts and wind turbines for that matter is that technologies come & go. There's a rush to put them up and money in it and so on. But what happens when the technology is superseded by something cheaper and/or with a new set of grants? The boyos who put them up tend to disappear, the companies have been sold on, liquidated etc. The TV Deflectors are an example of this - all the rage in some places when public wanted better reception by TV aerials. TDs elected on basis of them. Where are they yokes now? Slowly rotting and rusting away.

If it was me, I'd take the upfront lump sum. If the company went bust in a few years, at least you'd have been paid.

I think he/she means that if you enter a long term lease, it may not be long term if the technology changes. They'll hardly continue to pay you for something they don't need. Which is why I think an upfront lump sum is better.

With turbines it will be written into the contract about decommissioning. It won't be left to the land owner to deal with that. Just make sure you know exactly what your getting before you sign up.