Thread: Farmer lying about paper road?

Originally Posted by hdc

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but here it goes. I reckon the farmer is well within his moral (although perhaps not legal) rights. We have a paper road running straight up the guts of our family farm straight past the woolshed and yards and once you let one person through, you let them all through. We have had poachers up there dumb enough to posts photos of themselves on our placeon facebook, 4wd'ers ripping through stock and leaving gates open letting stock loose. It is a real pain in the arse. It may be legal access on paper, but it is not always practical access.

Is your paper road the only legal access to a doc block? If not then it's not the same IMO and I somewhat agree with you.

If it is why should a few shit cunts mean that you write off everyone? As a hunter/firearms owner I'm sure you don't like being put in the same camp as people like the Christchurch shooter or as a farmer being chucked in the same ranks as some of the few that are genuinely mistreating their animals. IMHO if you expect to be judged as an individual then you should be so for others. I completely understand its easier to just say no but most people if they genuinely consider the request would be able. To judge whether the person is going to be a problem/ isn't it better to know the person is going to be coming through and is going to give you heads up so you can keep him away from anything you need to rather than him just showing up and exercising their legal right.

We on a monthly basis get approached by pig hunters etc for access. Mostly we say no because it's private land only and we like to chase pigs but if they seem responsible and have kids for example we offer up shooting small game etc. We also allow access to a shit load of people as we have a area to launch boats into the lake and ask they call first and sign in and out at the gate. We have had issues but we just trespass those individuals and the other people who use the access actually are the ones that caught the troublemakers and reported them to us.

To clarify to everyone this legal access is 100% walkable and is doable. I'm aware some go through some nasty unwalkable stuff but this doesn't.