Snow Sledging

[Johnnyboxer]

With snow on the ground

More people at home

What happens if they take to your hilly fields for a bit of snow fun ....and they injure themselves

on some buried wire

a buried water trough

a fence

Is the farmer liable or are they trespassing?

Should ‘no sledging’ signs be put up to guard against future claimants

 

[Bald Rick]

"Why are you so fat?"

"Because every time I make love to your wife, she gives me a biscuit"

Best sledge ever (Cricket - Aussie bowler Glenn McGrath to Eddo Brandes of Zimbabwe & his reply)

 

[M-J-G]

With snow on the ground

More people at home

What happens if they take to your hilly fields for a bit of snow fun ....and they injure themselves

on some buried wire

a buried water trough

a fence

Is the farmer liable or are they trespassing?

Should ‘no sledging’ signs be put up to guard against future claimants

This is an up side to the right to roam in Scotland, in that people only have the right to responsible access.
If they rip their face off on a fence because they sledged into it, its not exactly responsible so they don't have the right to be there.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

This is an up side to the right to roam in Scotland, in that people only have the right to responsible access.
If they rip their face off on a fence because they sledged into it, its not exactly responsible so they don't have the right to be there.

Good point

 

[Walton2]

I have seen it happen where an old side rake tine was impaled in the knee of a 6 year old being towed behind a quad. He was on an empty big bag on his knees. The tine went one inch into his thigh bone, it was horrifying.If he had been lying on his tummy the consequences could have been unthinkable.

 

[milkloss]

This is an up side to the right to roam in Scotland, in that people only have the right to responsible access.
If they rip their face off on a fence because they sledged into it, its not exactly responsible so they don't have the right to be there.

It'll still be your fault though.

 

[ollie989898]

It'll still be your fault though.

How does one mitigate against the risk of someone sledging into a deep hole, off a cliff, into water or into a fence? I don't think 'no sledging' signs are going to help.

 

[Highland Mule]

This is an up side to the right to roam in Scotland, in that people only have the right to responsible access.
If they rip their face off on a fence because they sledged into it, its not exactly responsible so they don't have the right to be there.

I class sledging as damage to the grass (crop) and hence not responsible access. With the exception of my own, nobody is allowed. The proof is in the lines of ice left behind and inhibiting grass growth when the bulk of the snow has melted away.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

I class sledging as damage to the grass (crop) and hence not responsible access. With the exception of my own, nobody is allowed. The proof is in the lines of ice left behind and inhibiting grass growth when the bulk of the snow has melted away.

If 50 people turn up on your ground, how do you stop 50-60 people?

 

[Highland Mule]

If 50 people turn up on your ground, how do you stop 50-60 people?

Swear at the first few and then a couple of runs with the dung spreader across the slope. Helps if you can put the tractor sideways on the ice when you’re on the way to confront them - stick an extra bale of silage on the loader and give the controls a flick, but make sure you’re still a safe distance away.

 

[M-J-G]

If 50 people turn up on your ground, how do you stop 50-60 people?

 

[M-J-G]

If 50 people turn up on your ground, how do you stop 50-60 people?

Go out with a bum bag and tell them it's a tenner a head.

 

[davidroberts30]

How does one mitigate against the risk of someone sledging into a deep hole, off a cliff, into water or into a fence? I don't think 'no sledging' signs are going to help.

its from the same vein that i could break into your house and fall down your stairs then sue you

 

[Niteforce]

Saw this on news a few weeks ago . Even getting interviewed in middle of field.!!

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Go out with a bum bag and tell them it's a tenner a head.

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[Johnnyboxer]

Saw this on news a few weeks ago . Even getting interviewed in middle of field.!!View attachment 939843View attachment 939844

That is what I am talking about - they just turn up on your hilly ground and treat it as a public park

 

[ollie989898]

its from the same vein that i could break into your house and fall down your stairs then sue you

That's me doubly fudged then: can't go down the stairs these days without some kids toy being left there and waiting to kill my neck...

 

[Clive]

With snow on the ground

More people at home

What happens if they take to your hilly fields for a bit of snow fun ....and they injure themselves

on some buried wire

a buried water trough

a fence

Is the farmer liable or are they trespassing?

Should ‘no sledging’ signs be put up to guard against future claimants

I have a field of barley on the only slope near a big housing estate, hundreds on it every day it snows and as the snow turns to mud ........


Nothing I can do about it


all part of the fun we call being a farmer I guess

 

[Frodo]

I have seen it happen where an old side rake tine was impaled in the knee of a 6 year old being towed behind a quad. He was on an empty big bag on his knees. The tine went one inch into his thigh bone, it was horrifying.If he had been lying on his tummy the consequences could have been unthinkable.

Nobody wants to be the fun police, but using vehicle to tow kids on sledges is a bit daft, if common occurrence,

 

[Danllan]

its from the same vein that i could break into your house and fall down your stairs then sue you

Not as of right, he'd have to get the Court's permission to do so, and that isn't usually given.