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- Thread starter Mark W.
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Friend of mine had a couple of kids in a car and pickup tear up one of his fields. Another of his friends was driving by late one night, saw them in the field. He called Jerry and the cops, and then went to stop them. He wound up getting hit by one of the vehicles as they tried to get away and was injured. As it stands there is now a lawsuit against the kids parents for more than $10,000 in damages to the field, and another for the injuries to the guy they hit. I think Jerry said there were also other charges pending on the driver of the vehicle that hit the guy too.
We've got the night riders here. We're about 90 miles from St. Louis, and they come down here and act like they have a BB for a brain. I noticed my cows all looking at something one morning - went to investigate, and they'd tore a section of fence out. I can't believe you could do that without getting hurt, and maybe they did get hurt. If they'd had the decency of telling me the fence was wrecked, but nooo. . .
There'll be sometimes as many as ten of them come ripping by at 2 AM, as hard as they can run. There ain't nothing good happening at 2 AM, you can count on that.
There'll be sometimes as many as ten of them come ripping by at 2 AM, as hard as they can run. There ain't nothing good happening at 2 AM, you can count on that.
Around here we relay heavily on the grass in the ditches for hay. Every year it seems a "new" family moves into town and they run their quads up and down the ditches day and night. It's a tough one because the ditches are a public right of way but it's hard on the hay crop. I agree, a verbal warning was good, next time call the cops and press charges.
Casey in SD
Casey in SD
(quoted from post at 08:13:59 05/22/13) Around here we relay heavily on the grass in the ditches for hay. Every year it seems a "new" family moves into town and they run their quads up and down the ditches day and night. It's a tough one because the ditches are a public right of way but it's hard on the hay crop. I agree, a verbal warning was good, next time call the cops and press charges.
Casey in SD
So who do you pay for the hay? It's not yours.
Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
I have similar problem,
I cannot see the back 1/3 of my land, (all woods) I go back there about only a few times per year. I see last weekend that my neighbor cleaned up the back of my land.....so that he can ride his 4-wheeler. (I have to post no trespass signs because he will not listen to a **** thing I tell him) The signs also are to protect me from being sued.
I cannot see the back 1/3 of my land, (all woods) I go back there about only a few times per year. I see last weekend that my neighbor cleaned up the back of my land.....so that he can ride his 4-wheeler. (I have to post no trespass signs because he will not listen to a **** thing I tell him) The signs also are to protect me from being sued.
Bill Radford
Member
Have any of you guys ever realized like I have that the people that are the most into outdoor activities ie: 4 wheeling, hunting, fishing or whatever are the ones that own NOT ONE SQUARE FOOT of land?
We had so much problem with people poaching and tearing up crops, etc with trucks and ATV's that my farmer and I split the cost of steel gates on our major entrances to the farms and spent a day or so with a backhoe blocking small trails, etc that they got in through.
Posting doesn't work for trespassing hunters... however, if you organize a "hunting Club" with your family(who are going to hunt there anyway..) and the farmer's family and post a sign that says "Posted: Little River Hunting Club" it has proven to be more effective. Seems they dont care about farmers or property owners but are more fearful of the "Hunting Club"
We had so much problem with people poaching and tearing up crops, etc with trucks and ATV's that my farmer and I split the cost of steel gates on our major entrances to the farms and spent a day or so with a backhoe blocking small trails, etc that they got in through.
Posting doesn't work for trespassing hunters... however, if you organize a "hunting Club" with your family(who are going to hunt there anyway..) and the farmer's family and post a sign that says "Posted: Little River Hunting Club" it has proven to be more effective. Seems they dont care about farmers or property owners but are more fearful of the "Hunting Club"
Did kind of the same thing with some kids bicycles one time. I had some hay in a barn away from home and the little doinks rode out there and cut the strings off a bunch of bales. Caught them out there again and took the bikes,told them to tell their parents to come and get them. The parents weren't happy,but the kids finally confessed to what they'd done.
The adjoining land owner is actually responsible
for "trimming" the ditches before October 1st each
year. If you don't trim your ditch the county
comes along and trims it for you and charges you
$100 per mile. Most crop farmers around here
don't want to mess around with it so they love
that us livestock guys will cut it for them.
There are a few land owners that have gotten
greedy and started charging for the hay, but
nobody will pay for it. The ditch doesn't get
cut, land owner gets a bill from the county in
the fall and next spring they are on the phone
begging for someone to cut it.
Casey in SD
for "trimming" the ditches before October 1st each
year. If you don't trim your ditch the county
comes along and trims it for you and charges you
$100 per mile. Most crop farmers around here
don't want to mess around with it so they love
that us livestock guys will cut it for them.
There are a few land owners that have gotten
greedy and started charging for the hay, but
nobody will pay for it. The ditch doesn't get
cut, land owner gets a bill from the county in
the fall and next spring they are on the phone
begging for someone to cut it.
Casey in SD
RamblinMan
Member
Exactly.
I lived in the country and moved to town. People next door have dirt bikes 4 wheelers and such. They tear up the public right of way and the police catch them now and then but it never stops. Why don"t these people buy some land and live in the country for their riding?
I lived in the country and moved to town. People next door have dirt bikes 4 wheelers and such. They tear up the public right of way and the police catch them now and then but it never stops. Why don"t these people buy some land and live in the country for their riding?
I also think that people can bid on certain portions (such as the ditch along the interstate). In that case they actually do pay for the ditch hay.
Never saw that till I moved to SD, but I love it. Instead of the county/township paying to cut the grass, they sell it to those who can use it.
Never saw that till I moved to SD, but I love it. Instead of the county/township paying to cut the grass, they sell it to those who can use it.
Fergienewbee
Well-known Member
A guy at church dealt with kids on quads in his new hay fields by going to the parent"s house and dropping his plow in their front lawn. Owner came out all excited. I think that solved the problem.
Larry
Larry
That would be for the medians along the interstates. The shoulders are available to the adjoining land owners first, free of charge. If they pass, then the shoulders go out for bid too. Usually a $50 bill will get you a mile times how ever many you want or are available. Township, county and state highways just come down to good neighbors. I currently hay around 15 miles of ditch. Two different land owners, neither have livestock. They love the ditches being cut and clean looking and I get alot of hay. They always get some beef when I butcher.
Casey in SD
Casey in SD
Billy Shafer
Well-known Member
A few land mines would solve the problem.
Rick in Iowa
Member
back in 70s had kids? always going in my feild at night.one night i saw them while cultivating late one night,and wouldnt you know it damm cultivator fell off three point right in gate. they had balls enough to walk to town and have sherriff wake me up.asked why i left cultivator where i did.i said it wasnt safe to drive down rode with it at 2am,why did he care?he said some kids car was blocked in my feild.told him id move it at 8am when it was light and chores done and i saw him write ticket to them for trespassing.did no good but couple weeks later someone didnt see upside down spike tooth harrow in tall grass just inside gate,their daddy sure didnt like the damage to his new caddilac
Interesting on the highway maintenance custom, noticed that on one of my trips West. Wouldn't work here in SC. 1. The ditches and right of way in our hilly terrain are too rough. 2. We farm up to the edge of the ditch. Can't put a fence on the edge of the ditch so I lose that strip of pasture, but I am able to drive a tractor there. Told one kid to stop driving his 4 wheeler along there. I can do that because My property line and taxes thereon AFIK extend to the middle of the road. 3. The people that I can't describe on here throw too much trash on the side of the road to allow haying. It's bad enough cutting hay in fields along the road due to blowing trash.
I loved the plow on the lawn story and the cultivater in the roadway story. Classic!
KEH
evilboweivel
Member
good luck
bil sold a nice piece of wooded ground back in the 80's due to the police refusing to do anything about trespassers on quads BUT would arrest him and anyone who helped him. if he tried to stop any of them.
posted with signs that always were torn down, gates set were torn down also.
Ron
bil sold a nice piece of wooded ground back in the 80's due to the police refusing to do anything about trespassers on quads BUT would arrest him and anyone who helped him. if he tried to stop any of them.
posted with signs that always were torn down, gates set were torn down also.
Ron
The hay most certainly is mine. The right of way clause from
the 1950s specifically states the easement was given to the
county, property owner gets to make the hay for ag use. The
land is still mine, with their easement/ right of way/ restrictions
upon it, but it is still mine.
Paul
the 1950s specifically states the easement was given to the
county, property owner gets to make the hay for ag use. The
land is still mine, with their easement/ right of way/ restrictions
upon it, but it is still mine.
Paul
Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
sad I have to put a sign up to tell them they are on my land seems the trespasser has more rights on my land than I do
Before I retired from the Sheriff"s Dept. I caught some girls in a car doing what we called "cutting laps" spinning the car in a tight circle in a man"s wheat field. I took the juvenile girl to the office and called her father to come and get her. Her father was a local cattle dealer. He asked me who owned the field and when I told him he about hit the roof. He had just sold the landowner a new herd bull. He wanted me to lock her up but since she was under 18 I didn"t. When I explained that if she had been just a few days older she would have gone straight to jail I got her attention. Never had another problem with her.
ShadetreeRet
Well-known Member
Saw a sigh once that read, "NO TRESPASSING, SURVIVORS WILL BE PROSECUTED."
gene bender
Well-known Member
That would be a good time to call the law.
(quoted from post at 08:28:30 05/22/13) Have any of you guys ever realized like I have that the people that are the most into outdoor activities ie: 4 wheeling, hunting, fishing or whatever are the ones that own NOT ONE SQUARE FOOT of land?
Yup, live on a lot in town, mostly on welfare too, drive the biggest baddest 4wd they can get and usually own half a dozen pit bulls too.
I used to hate city tourists. Now I hate townies that fir the description above.
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