Thread: Farmer lying about paper road?

Originally Posted by BRADS

Again Tahr best post in this thread.
And most people that posted seem to wonder why farmers won't let them through but read the responses.
We have a fairly heavily used paper road through our farm that a few forum people use regularly, yes the gates locked thats because if you slide of the track in your car and die its on us, but your welcome to walk it anytime,
No the council has never maintained it thats all the farmer.
The other fact that no one's caught onto is often the "paper" road on a topo map is actually miles from the actual paper road something some of you should keep in mind, some paper roads have also been swapped with Doc for access around boundaries after bulldozing and maintenance all at the cost to the farmers.
The hate on farmers here recently is hard to take and yet you wonder why you can't get onto farms.....

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The paper road thing has been brought up as mentioned near page 2 about this is a "paper" Road from Wams not some track on a topo which I agree means nothing just like the many private huts on topos. I'm not hating on farmers and dislike the comments below as it helps nothing but in this case can you really defend a guy lying about a legal access potentially putting illegal tracks into public land. I don't hate farmers my entire family are farmers so completely understand the inconvenience hence why I'm not making any argument to have him make a track. I just want to walk into a block that I legally can and would prefer give them the option to let me walk the track and not have to jump or duck under his. Fences in regards to liability that argument is a bit loose as if they are on the road it's not the farmers problem otherwise pretty much all the south island easements over stations would would mean they are screwed as people drown trucks regularly.

I guess to the farmers here validating this behaviour how do you differentiate this from the government banning firearms because of a select few individuals actions? Or do you not complain about them.

And equally to those that are maybe getting a bit anti farmers maybe try consider why they are frustrated and try give them a little consideration (don't have to agree with there opinions but I can see why they have them as they manage and maintain there farms as they see fit and its very easy for a few to ruin it.

I just don't see how one thinks it fair to try stop people using a legal access that exists solely to allow access to public land.