Problems with 4 wheelers.....

[1bush2hog]

While the temptation is there to really show these young whipper snappers...the reality is we were all kids and did dumb stuff at one time or another.

Not to mention the fact that if the law didn't get you afterwards, your conscience would.

I had a farmer string a cable across the trail on me one time when my friend and I were riding dirt bikes. He let us go past before he strung it, knowing we would be back thru.

Fortunately I saw it just in time to lay my bike down and slide under it and my friend had time to stop once he saw me. We went to great measures for a long time afterwards to make sure this guy knew we were aware of what he did.

Therefore, the best solution may be to put up some security company signs with reference to video surveillence and mount a couple of 'dummy' cameras where these guys can see them when they go by. Or, just sit along side the trail with a video camera and take some pics.

Most people do not want to be taped doing something illegal.

I would really try to talk to them first though, without chasing them first. We had some young radicals that constantly ticked people off by going to fast thru the neighborhood. I approached them one day and asked them if they knew anyone who might be interested in doing some odd jobs for cash. They bit!

I got to know them better, had a chance to talk to them, and what do you know, problem was totally eliminated.

Good Luck!

 

[cstocks]

Brush piles and gates (without a connecting fence) will only deter those who are not determined to get through. I know of one gate in particular that is not connected to a fence. It blocks the entrance to some of my uncle's and others' land. The gate keeps vehicular traffic out but there is a well defined four wheeler trail around the gate.

Ditto for brush piles. A sensible person will realize that the brush was put there to keep them out but not so if the offenders want to ride the road on the other side bad enough. Point in case: A couple of winters ago there was a bad ice storm in Ark. that messed up a lot of the four wheeler trails across the road from my Uncle's place. I rode on the trails that were still open but turned around at all the trails that had fallen timber, brush and vines across them. My eighteen year old nephew showed me in short order that the fallen brush would not stop a "real" ATV enthusiast and proceeded to blaze a trail around all of the roadblocks. It never crossed my mind to blaze through vines and undergrowth to continue on my intended path, but leave it to a kid to open my eyes to other possiblities!

 

[thcri]

I do a lot of wheelin. Fences and brush piles are usually a task we love. We wheel up north in an area where loggers are. You want to talk about something tearing up the land follow the loggers. The loggers will build brush piles and other deterants on public property and private property that we have permission to be on but they don't like us around there with our wheelers.

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