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Old 01-28-2010 | 02:22 PM
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Potterco
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RWJ : My main purpose of posing the question was so I had some sort of idea what I must tolerate in the future.
Twice now I had my grain field (s) driven over by a WCO and his Dep. while patroling for late night shooting in the area of my farm, soy bean field sustain loads of damage when wet and driven on or when the plants are green and wet.
In one case I confronted the DWCO face to face an asked who gave him permission to drive in the field ( there is a 2 track tractor path 1/2 way around the field). His reply was he had wanted to hide the truck and wait along the edge of the field in the woods for late spotlighters. To which I replied well who's going to pay for the lost beans an ruts in the field...he shrugged and walked off to meet his partner parked in my woods and hiding next to the 2 track where it entered the field thru the woods.
The other case was when the same WCO with a trainee in his Dodge truck was stuck in another wet silage cut corn field. when he knocked on my door to ask if I could pull him out with my tractor he explained he was parked there so he could watch with binos for illegal turkey hunters on the nearby Gamelands. He had ruts 8" deep for 100 yds back to where he was stuck. Never did he offer to repair any damage but did thank me for pulling him out.
In neither case did the WCO or the Dep. have any reason to trespass on my land in hopes that an infraction might take place. An the crumb comment comes from them not wanting to walk a few hundred yards or wait in the rain.
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