Posted by RayP(MI) on February 16, 2014 at 16:59:24 from (207.241.143.114):
In Reply to: Snowmobile rant posted by David G on February 16, 2014 at 11:26:44:
Don't get me started on this - nothing pushes my buttons faster or harder than snowmobile trasspass.
I raise oats and grass/alfalfa hay. Often their snowpack kills off the alfalfa. I can take you out in the fields in mid-summer, and show you where they went. So, I believe they are doing me damage.
What really fries me is the impunity with which they trespass. They come out of nowhere, blast across your land and they're gone. At speeds upwards to 100mph, it's almost impossible to identify them. They're wearing helmets, the machines all look about the same at a distance. Unless their suits are particularly unusual. Numbers on the machine are useless if they even have them. Law enforcement officers don't seem particularly inclined to deal with them.
Our laws allow 33 foot right of way each side of center of the road for road way right of way. I have been told by snowmobilers that they own 33 feet of my fields. Now let's look at it from my side of the field. If the county isn't using it, and I'm farming it, IT'S MINE! There are several places where I farm right up to the edge of the roadways, as do many other farmers.
Problem of trespassing has abated a bit since the county is allowing them to run on the roadways, on rural roads. But again, these guys know no common sense, flying down the roadways at extremely high speeds. Far faster than you can go with a car or truck. They're a danger to everyone on the roads, especially themselves.
There's no protection for the farmer, short of extremely strong fences, and they're no match to a wire cutter. Signs are ignored, snowbanks climbed at will, fences crossed... On and off your place at will. Do I sound upset?
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