Having the easement rewritten to be a private easement to be shared by the two neighboring landowners forever was actually proposed. That was also shot down. The guy wanted to split the easement and fence it off down the middle which would have eliminated the road we all use to get in there. Literally a guy who per conservations with other parties there never traveled down there who is wanting to make life rough. I'm going to walk away from any further discussions with him.
As a side note, his grazing lease guys had their cattle get in my field recently. I saw them on camera and they got them out quick. That said, there is nothing stopping them now from going out that opening into another guys bean field or farther south as I am removing a crap fence on my side of the easement. There were a number of benefits like that which the gate would have helped. So it goes, have other fish to fry.
