Blocking field access - wwyd? (longish!)

Spring Feather said:
My farm is right at the very end of a dead end lane. We have 2 entrances to the farm, one is a very long driveway that leads to our house and barn etc. The other leads into our hay meadows. In hunting season every year I have hunters parking on and totally blocking access (although we can get to the hay meadows from the main driveway too). This hacks me off so every year at the beginning of hunting season I drop 2 large round bales where the driveway meets the lane and that does the trick. When I'm late putting them down there and there is already a hunters truck there I always have this overwhelming urge to take the big tractor down there with 2 bales on the spikes and park behind their vehicle with the bales suspended above their truck!
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We live along a single track private lane. Just about every delivery driver/workman who ever comes to any of the houses feels that it is perfectly ok to block the lane. A few weeks ago subcontrcators for Yorkshire Water came and parked and disappeared off down the fields (which don't belong to any of the houses on the lane). After a while I rang the number on the side of their large van and explained that it was blocking the private lane and should have been left on the public highway anyway. The van disappeared within about 20 minutes.
After an incident when a carpet-fitter refused to move his van, so neighbour parked between the van and the road and went in for his tea and then made the carpet-fitter wait for half an hour before he moved his car, which made us all laugh, that is the strategy which the majority of us use. That's what i would do in your position, OP, if a polite request to leave the gateway clear at all times was ignored.
 
Yes, speak to the land owners - its easier to throw your weight about when its your own land, not so much when you rent and could be evicted..
 
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