Stopping a snowmobile without injury

[MossRoad]

How ridiculous, there is a **** of a difference.
If you don't want anyone on the property, post it. How hard is that.
My property isn't posted, hunters and ATV's cross my field in the back all the time. They are not hurting anything so its not a problem. If it bothered me I would post it.
Come into my house uninvited and they risk being shot.

The problem is, where the OP lives, he is not required to post the property. The snowmobilers are required to know the law. Sure, the OP should post the property to make that clear, but he doesn't have to by law. Its 100% the responsibility of the snowmobiler to know the laws and where they can and cannot ride.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Simplest but most expensive solution is a good fence around your property. As Ben Franklin said, "Good Fences make good Neighbors", Fences tell almost everyone that you don't want them on your property. It took my brother in law and I a couple of years but we finally replaced all the old patched up 5 strand barbed wire fencing with 4 feet high net wire with a barbed wire on top. This was mostly to keep our animals in including our dogs but it also lets everyone know that we don't want them on our property. When we first bought the property and was building our houses, many times folks would just come walking in and start fishing our pond. This wouldn't have been so bad if they had practiced catch and release but they would take the biggest fish that they caught home with them. It doesn't take a lot of that to deplete a small pond. Luckily we haven't had any more trespassers since we put in all the fences and gated driveways.

 

[Scooby074]

Maybe the law says "ATV operators, you have to know" fair enough, but putting up a sign, for little to no cost, "Lets them know".

Why not install a couple and see where it goes? Seems too easy.

I still believe we dont have all the facts here, particularly regarding "the river" and where exactly these riders are going in regards to the OPs property.

There is an order of magnitude difference between running along the shore of a river, 2000' from your house vs. 10' from your front door.

 

[MossRoad]

I believe they cannot leave the waterway and go 1' onto shore. Its not a gray area. Its pretty clear what the law says. I think they see an open field and perhaps some tracks so off they go and really don't give a flip about private property rights. The owner should post even if its not required. I'd post at every location where the most frequent in/out occurs along my property.

 

[DarkBlack]

I believe they cannot leave the waterway and go 1' onto shore. Its not a gray area. Its pretty clear what the law says..

I just browsed the lengthy MN snowmobile rules. Where is it "pretty clear" as you claimed, a sled can't go 1' on shore?

 

[seventyfour]

What about just fencing your property, and a few NO TRESPASSING signs?? That makes it criminal in my state... just a thought....

 

[MossRoad]

I just browsed the lengthy MN snowmobile rules. Where is it "pretty clear" as you claimed, a sled can't go 1' on shore?

In that county and several other counties, the snowmobilers cannot enter private land without written permission. The property line starts at the waters edge. That's pretty clear to everyone but a few here that somehow think the property owner is at fault for not posting his property, when the law clearly states he doesn't have to in that county.

 

[ruffarms]

You guys just don't get it do you. Strangers are not allowed to trespass on private land and the land owner shouldn't have to stop what he is doing to tell them they are trespassing. Show some respect, ask first.

you obviously have never been out of town on a snowmobile

 

[MossRoad]

you obviously have never been out of town on a snowmobile

When I'm out of town in a car I don't drive across someone's yard to take a look at the river behind their house.

 

[bigtiller]

you obviously have never been out of town on a snowmobile

Wow, that is what you chose to write for your first post?

How did you come to your conclusion?