Has a farmer ever told you to "get orf my land" ?

Question

British farmers are supposedly notorious for it.

Personally I've had 4 run-ins with farmers and all have been ugly encounters, and ended up in hospital one time due to farmer setting dog on me which locked its teeth in to my forearm. (Each time I'm pretty certain was on a legal right-of-way.. said so on my pathfinder maps).

Stereotype or not ?

Answer 1

Once had a mad encounter. My friend and I were out walking his dog (an English bull terrier-which was on her leash) on a public footpath when this crazy farmer comes over and starts yelling abuse at us and claiming that we'd been letting the dog chase his sheep.
We pointed out that she was on her lead and there were no sheep nearby but he just kept ranting so we got bored and walked off.
Next thing the nutter sets his farm collie on my mates dog. Not only rude but stupid given that bull terriers were bred to fight so 2 seconds later she has the collie pinned to the ground by it's throat and the farmer starts threatening to smash all our skulls and crazy stuff like that-we decided to run and later called the police to report him for making death threats.
It turned out he was mentally ill and did stuff like that a lot-it was weird!

Answer 2

I live in the US, and if you trespass where you best not be trespassin', you're probably gonna get a shotgun shell full of rock salt in yer booty.

But I've seen where British farmers and landowners have to have stiles and allow people access to their land as long as it's traveled, like, at least once a year, something like that. I didn't realize they were so pissy about it. I thought Britain had a better reputation about letting people take walking tours and stuff.

That's certainly disappointing to hear, and I hope it's not happening to a lot of people. Maybe you should look up some land-access rules and have them ready when you go for a hike or whatever.

Answer 3

What a great question! Actually, yes, this has happened. A few years ago, I had about twenty Netherland Dwarf rabbits I had to get out of boarding, but at my new place they were not allowed. I lived in a semi-rural area, and I thought that maybe one of the farmers would rent some space to me, all they needed was a shed or small barn, and I'd seen empty barns here and there. So I went out, from farm to farm, with my son. At one of them, we told the farmer that we needed some barn space, or a shed, and were looking to rent some. He said he had a shed and asked what it would be for. When I told him that I used to be a rabbit breeder and I had a few lines of hutches, he turned beet red and said, "Nope, nope, absolutely not. You bring rabbits on my land, my dog'll kill 'em! You better go, I can't help you." He was still ranting about how his dog goes out and kills rabbits the whole time we were going back to the car. It was the same everywhere we went. They had space, but not for rabbits. They hate rabbits. It didn't matter that these were tiny rabbits who were kept in commercial cages from which they couldn't escape, just the fact that they were rabbits was enough.

Answer 4

In the US, maps do not clearly mark private land or roads. Often the map simply will show that the road is there ad it may look like a public right of way but really be on private land.

Answer 5

Arrr. I be a farmer myself and I only tell them tresspassers to 'ger off my land' when they are a) lighting fires. b) scaring livestock. c) disrespecting my livelihood. I do let people cross my land and I have let people camp in the fields I don't keep cattle in. The only problems I ever had was when three youths decided to drive a stolen car across my property.

Answer 6

They have their moments, a few of them have been known to talk about themselves in the third person and say "the farmer want's you off the land" whilst pointing a gun at you!

Answer 7

i was never "told" to get off the land, but i did get shot in the a** with rock salt. Canadian farmers are NUTS!

Answer 8

No farmer has ever said that to me, but my racist next door neighbor has... I don't even know any farmers... I probably shouldn't have even responded to your question, huh?

Answer 9

Farmers are always very courteous to me when I go poaching with my double barrel 12 bore.

Answer 10

Actually yes, but I suppose he was in the right as we were galloping through his field trying to catch up with a drag hunt we thought had gone that way when they hadn't at all!