Lease Rules Regarding Rain

[Johnny Dangerr]

Rocks and more rocks here. 1 muddy spot on 2000 acres.

[outdoordaddy]

One day I drove through the place I hunt and made some ruts. I felt bad and when I finished filling feeders, I began to try and fix the ruts with a shovel. The landowner drove up making bigger ruts, got out laughing and asked me what the heck I was doing. I told him i felt bad for making ruts and he laughed some more and said don't worry about it, the land will change anyway, especially next time it rains. I agree if you can't make it through in 4wd without getting burried, then yes stay off the roads. Your typical ruts made by a 4wd truck, in my mind, aren't anything to get upset over or make rules against. In the end though, it's up to the landowner.

Very well said...in a similar situation our land owners cows tear up the road more than a truck does in the rain. And with the ground at our place you leave a rut and wake up the next morning and it is gone.

[Roscoe]

As long as the rule is spelled out very clearly BEFORE the exchange of any cash, I would have no problem with it.

[freak-nasty]

Glad all my roads are rock!!

[Charles]

Got a problem with that? Its our own property!

Nope. Your land= TYA

My land= GYAK

[Bodey]

It cost me $6000 to get my roads back in top shape after my Turkey hunters left last April. It rained every day they were there and they insisted on leaving the camp in individual trucks every hunt. Let's see- 5 trucks, in and out,twice a day for 5 days. I told them they could come back next year, if they would leave me a $5000 road deposit. A little respect for the landowner sure goes along way towards future considerations.

[Change Up]

I understand everyones point. The only thing is if the land owner would allow 4 wheelers or golf cart or some other kind of transportation. I was on a lease like 12 years ago and it rained every weekend i was there at some point or time and i went 8 weekends. Just seems like a lot of wasted money if i had spent over $4000 dollars on lease, corn, protein, etc and not be able to hunt.

[dexterc]

no problems, as stated earlier, everything needs to be discussed up front before money is exchanged. Like someone said earlier, common sense should prevail but some folks seem to be running a little shy on that. Be blessed

[RaginCagin]

Wow, if we were not allowed to drive on a road on our lease after a rain we would never hunt. Our lease is all bottome land and almost all trails hold water all winter. We use 4 wheelers only and we often travel in water close to the seat in certain areas. We fix the roads once a year. We have some pretty bad ruts but no one tries to tear them up, its just nature of the beast where we hunt and the timber company knows it and has no problem with it.

[flywise]

Yes we would allow it but we leave a jeep at camp for anybody to use. You wouldn't want to drive very far back on my place with anything you cared about it, it gets real rough. The main reason we don't allow trucks is because everybody drives big diesel 3/4 tons that are heck on the roads.

I understand, at least the guy's don't have to drag a big boy a half mile to camp. That's tuff work

[bloodtrail]

The only rule that we have is go threw the mud hole not around it.

[holdem]

It's a pain to free a stuck 4wd truck, trust me. I've paid road maintenance fees on several leases. Go for it. LOL

[Skinny]

Heck, we just shove her in low/low and hammer down. Then spend a couple hours in the tractor when it dries out.

[BigL]

My land, I do what I want!

Yes I've walked in a few times because I didn't want to rut it up too bad. Most of the time it's to get my money out of the 4 wheel drive though!

[VorTexan]

treat it like you own it and your moma is watchin.