Quote Originally Posted by daz h View Post
I get on quite well with the local farmers here.
I think having a border collie helps as he is instantly something they recognise that they relate to. I very often stop and will point out a if someone has say trashed a stile or a gate has been left open etc etc. They are quite thanking of it.

There is one place that has lots of horses that has put an electric fence up with no way through it( ie a hook to lift off so you can get through) . I pointed that out and they sorted it. Not for me but for others who cannot get under it.
In winter I will go off the paths when its dark just to alter my routes a bit. No one minds as lots of the paths never get used.

Having said that tonight probably someone will have a go at me.
My nearest local farmer is actually our milkman - no, he's not my dad or any other milkman relate jokes.....I had a word with him and he let me use one of his fields for hill repping "Aye go on then, best of luck t' ya lad"

I once had a full on conversation with one farmer who must have had abit of time to kill....was asking where I'd come from, where I was going, why I was running in the first place.
I didnt tell him that the week before his entire heard of dairy cows went mental when I stepped into the field and started charging around and smashed through a fence