Keeping snowmobilers out

i suggust the orange fencing as well

barbed wire aint cool

One other thing you might do is put up a sign saying you're using it for a shooting range and let a couple targets hanging around with well placed small group shots in them. The further you hang the targets from the shooting bench the better. After he gets a look at them maybe he'll feel the need to move on.

Please consider when you fence the road that the person may hit the barb wire after you install it thinking it's still a open road. Yes I do realize that it's private property and he's tresspassing but you don't want to hurt him do you?

This happen to my son when he was 14yrs old but the guy only put up one strand of barb wire accross the road. When he hit the wire it caught him under the neck but didn't cut him too bad as he was wearing a helment. He was very lucky. He still has the scars on his chin and neck at 30yrs old as he kiloids bad (type of scar that swells out).

My postion was he was on pivate land and should have known better and got his motorcycle taken away for a month for riding on pivate land plus lick his wounds.

In todays world I guess if I'd been a "AH", the land owner could have been liable for only putting up one strand of barb wire and no signs on an existing roadway even tho it was a private road. All though I felt one strand was more of a "trap" than a stop sign, I felt my son was more at fault. Had he been seriously hurt, would I still feel the same way at that time? Three strands proabaly yes. One strand, it's a toss up, but I sure would have wanted to talk with the land owner.

T_Bone

This is hard to say without sounding like a total AH.

I disagree. The first rule of riding trails is to know the area your riding, prescope it out.

My son failed to do so as he was taught. He could have just as well came around a cornner with a tree limb at neck height with the same results. We live in the Arizona desert and everything has sharp spines on it, grass, tree branches and alots of cactus.

A landowner has the right to protect there property from damage. Although my son was just riding accross his property to access State land on a known roadway, no damage other than tire tracks, that roadway was still private land and my son didn't have permission to enter the private property.

One thing my son did learn from that day, is to never cross private land without premission and to scope out where he rides. He still follows those rules today. Hard leasson but he only had to learn it once.

Now the kicker is the land owner, a young kid and his father, was arrested about 3yrs latter for selling drugs, buying the section of land, illegal subdividing the land, drilling water wells without permits, distributing Utilitys without a permit ( selling water and reselling electricity utilitys). The son took the drug charges, the Dad took the rest, and the State got the land. Both are still in jail after 10yrs.
I think there was also some threatening of County officals involved.

Funny that you would mention druggers :)

T_Bone

That being said, a whole bunch of "private property" placards afixed to the fence at close intervals would be a minimum in my opinion.

There have been locally one or two fatalities within the last 5 yrs from snowmobilers running into a cable strung across a vacant farm place driveway. But I have never heard if/what the legal ramifications were to the land owner.