Uh Oh We're In Trouble.......

[JUDWAK]

cant mistake your drive for a green lane tho can ya

but its easy to see were a back garden starts and were one ends in a town
not the easy to see by eye out in the sticks
i lov green laneing and i know i have had my fair share so ups and downs with angery farmers
and all it has took would have been a sign saying no through road or private lnd/road no entery no tresspass
its not hard to ask and easyer to posicute if signed
every time i have had this with land owers/ farmers
its always been down to a simple sign sometimes its just over grown
other times its the same has you said about my back garden
my garden is fenced off damage to it brings its own troubles
to fence your garden off would proberly cost thousends and farms its just not possible cost way too much
a sign is a simple fence cross over it it brings the same problems has braking down a fence to get on the other side
thats knowingly tresspassing
in the eyes of law you have to be knowingly tresspassing
thats down to the land oweners to let you know
i had all this with british rail we own land next to it
its a fine line but easy to put right

[goodcat]

Didn't you see the pictures???

The Landy with the roof rack on got stuck and they had to use a strap to support the tree branches.

As Gordon says, there was very little room to turn and 6 trucks doing a 3 pointer in the guys back garden would have only escalated the situation.

We opted for what we thought was the quickest way to exit the guys land with the leat possible disruption and damage.

Remember we were trying to make the best of an unfortunate situation. It's all very well offering advice after the fact but going back down the original route would have created even more problems.

you did the right thing by explaining and oppologising to the farmer. shame he turned out to be a ####!
if he didnt listen to reason i would've done a 6 point turn on his front lawn/toes and done a dougnut in his garden and over his head!
i hate unwilling, unreasonable, unpleasant, stuck up, people like him who have no sense of common decency, understandabilty, and who have no idea what it is to be kind and neighbourly and compasionate to his fellow man.
"oh no a few cars drove don my road with TYRES on!!" what a looser.
i wouldve thought that being a farmer, 4x4's and farming kinda go hand in hand and so he would understand and symphasise with u guys.
some people ay. cant see past their own noses sometimes.

[wishbone]

Here's a pretty pic of my truck in my driveway. Taken from outside my kitchen window. The bush to the left is where my driveway starts.

I love the idea of green laning and am not against it at all. Just really hate seeing people tresspass and then getting self righteous when I know full well if I was to wander into their back garden and put a load of ruts in their lawn and say 'sorry mate but it wasn't signposted' they'd try to lynch me

Rob

Edit: Notice the oil stain - really must replace the front crankshaft seal

[JUDWAK]

You're missing the point. It's obvious my drive is private (30 foot btw) yet people still assume its ok to use it to turn around. Whenever I've lived 'in town' nobody has ever driven up my drive to turn round.

Rob.

well dude at 30 ft its no wonder your p1ssed off
its not like your on a mile long road ita a big drive way is all
i would never do it mate
and i do know full what your saying there are a few around here and i even seen cars fallow me down a back road and turn off in farms i know they dont live there they are just being noisey tw@ts dude and take no care or notice of anything other than them selfs ohhh its gets me going too dus that
its tw@ts like that that give out door pursuits a bad name init

[wishbone]

You're missing the point. It's obvious my drive is private (30 foot btw) yet people still assume its ok to use it to turn around. Whenever I've lived 'in town' nobody has ever driven up my drive to turn round.

Rob.

[JUDWAK]

So as most peoples houses have no 'private' signs then it's fine for me to walk up their front drives and into their back gardens. There is a big sign on my turning saying 'private land no turning' but I guess drivers are blind or something..

Rob.

how long is your drive?
mines about 18 foot so no need for a sign they can see me shouting flik off in the window mate

[wishbone]

i know me for one would drive up it if not marked up has private
if ya want resect get a sign
there will allways be the odd t1t head but a saign stops us that do care mate
not careing to let us know its private is the start of the whole problem

So as most peoples houses have no 'private' signs then it's fine for me to walk up their front drives and into their back gardens. There is a big sign on my turning saying 'private land no turning' but I guess drivers are blind or something..

Rob.

[JUDWAK]

Just because it's not marked 'private' doesn't mean you have a right to drive up it.



Rob.

i know me for one would drive up it if not marked up has private
if ya want resect get a sign
there will allways be the odd t1t head but a saign stops us that do care mate
not careing to let us know its private is the start of the whole problem

[wishbone]

My house is part of a farm property. You would not believe the amount of people who pull up and park in my turning (private land), Throw all their rubbish out of their window onto private land. Take a pxss up my front hedge. Actually drive up my driveway to 3 point turn. Walk up my drive and between my house and garage to ask directions / find their 'off leash' dog (actually walk through to my back garden!) Knock on my door in the middle of nowhere to get directions at 9.30 at night. The list goes on....

Not being funny but if these types of things happened to people who live 'in town' on a weekly occurance then maybe they'd understand why the owners look so pee'd off. People seem to assume there are no boundaries in the sticks.

Just because it's not marked 'private' doesn't mean you have a right to drive up it.



Rob.

[JUDWAK]

samo he appeared from nowhere in the field, locked the gate and then just sat there.

i had this a few times i know i only been reading for last few years but i swear there were no signs dudes
i know a few that take it realy bad even one that got a road with signs and its not a privert road i have checked and he knows it too
i know of one that runs me off the road then has a go about me being too far on the verge?
he seems to not like me or the car
back lane tickhill its a proper road 1 car wide with pull offs to let others pass
if i see his tractor i pull over in the nearest spot coz he will not wait or pull over
he just come right at you untill you go off the road then he wants to have a go about it ? freak
he phoned the cops once saying that a 4x4 was shooting on his land and ripping his crops up?
i was up there for hours and no other 4x4 were there or was any one shooting
i own no gun
and iam a animal lover i cant hurt nothing like that
it took 45 mins of searchs off the cops before they let me go
if he had his way he would stop traffic useing that road

[Gaspode]

I lived in the country for many years, the farmers round there didnt like horses for some reason, especially the one next door a right miserable gob$hite he was, ( I actually got shot at once) the point is, in my view, if you are going up a lane or even over a damn field, its land, you know, been sitting there for millions of years, will continue to sit there for another few million years, its not gong anywhere, you havnt attempted to steal it, just driven on it, whats the damn problem, ok so you may get a few ruts, give it a bit of rain and another truck driving on the proud bits it'll be flat in no time, aincient monuments, ok, mebbe not over them, but the land is the land, its not going to break.


Some folk just hate to see anyone have fun.



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[mkiiisupraowner]

thats how i see most of em too
i did not want to say it just incase i was the only one
why do they think they can stop you going off there land even if you have wondered on there with out knowing it?
is it a law i know nothing about
i know one farmer who dont use signs i only know by driving on his privert road after he locked me in ? no signs
but the bugger must have seen me drive passed him coz he was miles back up this track 10-12 miles later after i turned around only knowing it a privert road by seeing a farm house and no more road ? why no signs then
half way back up this track there was a gate blocking the road way
the sly bugger locked me in and refused to let me out just shouting abuse at me
telling me its a flukin privert road over and over like a loonytune
i asked were are the signs to say its privert
all i got was
flukin signs ya want flukin signs eh well fluk off ya not leavin
so after about 20 mins of this he locked him self in his LR
still refuseing to let me go so i drove around bugger him
nothing came of it

samo he appeared from nowhere in the field, locked the gate and then just sat there.

[JUDWAK]

unlucky chaps, unfortunately there are a lot of farmers with that attitude, years ago we used to do hot air ballooning, we had to come down in a farmers field as we were running out of gas, we were the support team, couldn,t find who the field belonged to so we drove on to the land to retrieve the balloon, to cut a long story the farmer turned up wouldn,t let us off the land, even after we explained we would of crash landed due to lack of gas, after 3 hours it was getting dark, so eventually we told the farmer we were leaving regardless, and phoned the police, he let us go but followed us , another of his mates turned up carring a shot gun, they took a kick at the van as we drove off.
funny lot farmers.

thats how i see most of em too
i did not want to say it just incase i was the only one
why do they think they can stop you going off there land even if you have wondered on there with out knowing it?
is it a law i know nothing about
i know one farmer who dont use signs i only know by driving on his privert road after he locked me in ? no signs
but the bugger must have seen me drive passed him coz he was miles back up this track 10-12 miles later after i turned around only knowing it a privert road by seeing a farm house and no more road ? why no signs then
half way back up this track there was a gate blocking the road way
the sly bugger locked me in and refused to let me out just shouting abuse at me
telling me its a flukin privert road over and over like a loonytune
i asked were are the signs to say its privert
all i got was
flukin signs ya want flukin signs eh well fluk off ya not leavin
so after about 20 mins of this he locked him self in his LR
still refuseing to let me go so i drove around bugger him
nothing came of it

[BUSHWHACKER]

Only the inbred ones.

[mkiiisupraowner]

unlucky chaps, unfortunately there are a lot of farmers with that attitude, years ago we used to do hot air ballooning, we had to come down in a farmers field as we were running out of gas, we were the support team, couldn,t find who the field belonged to so we drove on to the land to retrieve the balloon, to cut a long story the farmer turned up wouldn,t let us off the land, even after we explained we would of crash landed due to lack of gas, after 3 hours it was getting dark, so eventually we told the farmer we were leaving regardless, and phoned the police, he let us go but followed us , another of his mates turned up carring a shot gun, they took a kick at the van as we drove off.
funny lot farmers.