Farm access - how much to pay?

Rangielux · Post by **Rangielux** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:05 am

I have a land owner in my area that has approached a group of us to help him open up his 1300 ac property to paying 4wders to help him maintain/make new tracks.

Wondering how much would someone normally or be prepared to pay for access? Daily or all weekend?

He has access to approx 1000 ac of native bush that he has made/cleared bush tracks with his bulldozer that loop up etc. Couple of us had a look and its a pretty good day. It's escentually his hobby farm/hunting block so he doesn't mind 4wds skidding around certain parts. It is about a hour south of Te Kuiti.

hosehustler · Post by **hosehustler** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:42 am

we usually pay around a max of $20 per vehicle, although some access areas down here have quoted as high as $50 :shock:

personally I think $20 is a fair price

SupraSurf · Post by **SupraSurf** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:57 pm

Normally a dozen and a couple of loaves of fresh bread

JTop · Post by **JTop** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:11 pm

You can't "PAY" him as this opens up liabilty issues.
You can make a "Koha" or Love offering as a thank you for allowing you on his land
J Top

lilpigzuk · Post by **lilpigzuk** » Thu May 11, 2006 1:43 pm

We have a property up this way that we "donate" $10/vehicle. Would be more than happy to pay $20 as it is very close and he takes a log skidder too it once a year with a complete range of tracks for all types of vehicles.

Rex

albundy · Post by **albundy** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:21 pm

If you want to check out "market" rates in the industry check out Landcruiser Park in Qld, Oz. But I don't pay more then $20 for farm access. But a commercial venture with a 4wd park will be a good money spinner. I reckon this will be our only way of enjoying our sport the way things are going, that's if we don't run out of fossil fuel first :lol:

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Al

Rangielux · Post by **Rangielux** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:09 pm

JTop wrote:You can't "PAY" him as this opens up liabilty issues.
You can make a "Koha" or Love offering as a thank you for allowing you on his land
J Top

Hehehe I hope this "Love offering" is nice looking! :lol:

but I wouldn't let this cockies wife catch her, it would end up in the news :wink:

The liabily thing comes with the teritory on these type of parks/farms.

Some of the outfits I've seen on the web that are in Auckland and the Wairarapa are incredibly costly. What about the ralliwoods place down Wellington, do you have to pay for that?

mroffroader · Post by **mroffroader** » Thu May 11, 2006 6:58 pm

hosehustler wrote:we usually pay around a max of $20 per vehicle, although some access areas down here have quoted as high as $50
personally I think $20 is a fair price

yep $20 "donation"

is fair and maybe if hes nice some piss to :twisted:

De-Ranged · Post by **De-Ranged** » Thu May 11, 2006 7:53 pm

As JTop said there is real legal responsability on the land owner, with nasty peniltys if you pay for access and something goes wrong... one way of getting round it is
A farmer charging a "toll" to drive on his road

you had to drive on his road to get to the back of the farm where you were allowed to play for free :roll:

Another way is what a local trust is doing.... you pay for access to drive on there tracks and you sign a decleration that you will stay on the recognised tracks and if you go off the tracks they claim no responsabilty....

As for price, I'm a kiwi and I hate paying for recreation :shock:

but I recognise if I want access I've got to, I can live with $20 a day after all its really not that much for a whole day, but on principle I wouldn't pay anymore :lol:

or I'd try and sort a trade for free access, sort of like what I'm sorting with this local trust :wink:

if I make a few tracks then.....

Cheers Reece

PAID · Post by **PAID** » Fri May 12, 2006 11:58 am

lilpigzuk wrote:We have a property up this way that we "donate" $10/vehicle.

Rex

in auckland? details rex, details

PajeroMan · Post by **PajeroMan** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:21 pm

PAID wrote:
lilpigzuk wrote:We have a property up this way that we "donate" $10/vehicle.

Rex

in auckland? details rex, details

I second that, details man come on..!! heheehe

lilpigzuk · Post by **lilpigzuk** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:49 pm

The farm owner is VERY selective of who goes in, is suitable for well set up SWB bush trucks only and this time of year you would be lucky to get in the main access track.
That is all I can say sorry.....