Thread: Farmer lying about paper road?

Originally Posted by hdc

I realize this will wind some people right up, but I am coming at this from the perspective of the farmer, rather than the person wanting to go up the public road. All they are trying to do is make a living off the land, and there is nothing worse than having to try and shed off ewes and lambs in the paddock because some idiot has gone for a wander up the paper road and left the gates open, boxing up the mobs. When people head up the paper road in their little Skoda hatchbacks because the GPS said they could go that way, and you have to tow them out of a bog you wouldn't even drive the hilux through, it starts to annoy. I realize that legally you may have the right to go up there, but that doesn't mean you always should. You know the saying, once bitten twice shy. That is how most farmers feel about public access, after a few fuckwits ruin it for everyone else.

One that's not paper roads Google maps automatically detects races etc and adds them to its data base. It's not really related to paper roads. Plus the stations down here have that solves they charge you $500-$1000 for recovery of the vehicle. This paper road does not actually follow any track its follows a ridgeline and would require jumping fences which is partially why I called and I was trying to avoid damaging fences as my biggest peeve I see guys do on our place its climbing the fence and stretching wires/pulling staples or climbing a swung gate at the end aways from the hinges.

You act like your the only farmers here. I also come from a farm and understand the point of veiw but morally I believe its wrong to try block legal access to public land. They could for example say use our track to keep you away from stock and pay $20 for track maintenance with the requirement that you give us a weeks notice or the such. But trying to block legal access all together is wrong. Pretty simple to set aside a parking area and setup a camera which would allow you to record all those using the access plus you should have a record of those that rang. Is it inconvenient sure is it so inconvenient that it's over weighs the rights of the public to access public land nope especially usually if you make rules then people just accept them.