redhand said:

Only thing I'll say is that with a lot of lanes their is a right to drive. but it doesn't give you the right to use trees etc as recovery points (I Know I KNOw I've used em meself) and if the tree was on the farmers land then he had the right to insist you remove ya strops and winch cables.

But like ya say there's a right way and a wrong way to react in this situation..

Click to expand...

The tree in question Red was on the lane side of the wall. Fair game as I see it. Yeah I could have reasoned with the fact if I had to trespass to use a tree as a recovery point but that wasn't the case. As it happens I pay extra on my insurance to cove me for green laning and off road activities so if I should damage any property including dry stone walls, farm buildings etc the third party gets paid out. Not just a sorry mate.