Roads and culverts

[Tassie Daz]

As I driven around the hills area of Adelaide Ive often come across farmers who have fenced right up to the very side of the road at a culvert or creeks crossing. Being a Real Estate Agent in a past life I know that titles are specific in that they allow for roadway corridors on each side of the roads.

So why is it that farmers think they can fence right up to the edge of a road so that one cant get access to the creek and road culvert.

Id be interested to hear your thoughts.

 

[Anolphart]

I hear ya Tassie Daz, and whilst Im no help to you, Ive had the pleasure of encountering a barbed wire fence crossing our path on a multi day white water kayaking trip down the Nymboida River several years ago. That could have ended disastrously as my mate and I were leading some novices and they could have panicked quite easily. Luck was with us that time. I found out later that particular farmer had a reputation for doing that.

 

[Tassie Daz]

Ive wondered whether farmers use the creek crossing as a stock crossing but blimey the creeks and culverts would have to have sheep or cows that were pigmy clones.

 

[PabloP]

I believe that in some cases they do it because their fences get washed away in small flash floods and as the animals can't get under the culverts they fence up to them and let the low culvert act as a fence. I am sure that their will be other reasons as well.

Rob P.

 

[Tassie Daz]

Ok Rob. So its not to keep us away from the creek its about the stock!
All the time I was thinking they were trying to keep usaway from the gold.