Hare coursers Maldon Essex

suffolk tup · Oct 6, 2015

Silver Subaru and green landcruser hare coursing. Drove all over newly drilled barley just after 5 mil rain. Police unable to attend because short of resources. Don't now where this will all end like the Wild West here

Badshot · Oct 6, 2015

suffolk tup said:
Silver Subaru and green landcruser hare coursing. Drove all over newly drilled barley just after 5 mil rain. Police unable to attend because short of resources. Don't now where this will all end like the Wild West here

Unfortunately it isn't quite like the wild west, cos they'd get a fecking bullet between the eyes if it was......

db9go · Oct 7, 2015

If you have a good rifle then put one through the rad from a safe distances without them seeing you they will have a big problem

JACK F · Oct 16, 2015

Enjoyed going around farm yesterday looking at pretty recently emerged wheat fields. Not so pretty this morning with tyre tracks all over them. Really makes your blood boil. Gone to another farm to find field gates pulled down and left in a bent twisted pile and tractor left there overnight drained of diesel. Not a good day.

Landy Nick · Oct 16, 2015

JACK F said:
Enjoyed going around farm yesterday looking at pretty recently emerged wheat fields. Not so pretty this morning with tyre tracks all over them. Really makes your blood boil. Gone to another farm to find field gates pulled down and left in a bent twisted pile and tractor left there overnight drained of diesel. Not a good day.

Not good to hear. What rough area of Essex are you.

JACK F · Oct 16, 2015

Landy Nick said:
Not good to hear. What rough area of Essex are you.

Not far from Chelmsford. Pikey camps near each block of land we farm. Know the people who do most the coursing but as the main one has unfortunately pointed out, he can do us a lot more harm than I can do him. Nasty piece of work but won't be long before he is in prison again.
Diesel will have ended up in other camp near that land. They are reknowned for diesel, kerosene thefts with loads pinched from local villages. Police raid occasionally and confiscate their pumps and ibc's etc but make no arrests and soon back at it.
On a plus note they had taken the cover off the battery but left it on tractor, also gps, sprayer box not touched in cab.

Shutesy · Oct 16, 2015

JACK F said:
Not far from Chelmsford. Pikey camps near each block of land we farm. Know the people who do most the coursing but as the main one has unfortunately pointed out, he can do us a lot more harm than I can do him. Nasty piece of work but won't be long before he is in prison again.
Diesel will have ended up in other camp near that land. They are reknowned for diesel, kerosene thefts with loads pinched from local villages. Police raid occasionally and confiscate their pumps and ibc's etc but make no arrests and soon back at it.
On a plus note they had taken the cover off the battery but left it on tractor, also gps, sprayer box not touched in cab.

Do you not take boxes out of the cab at night if the tractor is left in an area like that overnight? I know its a pain in the arse but I would be taking them out and the radio or they'll be gone as well one night!

JACK F · Oct 16, 2015

First time we have had a problem with tractor left in field, but from now on will be more aware and remove valuable items. When over there we always park near a house (about 60 yards away) and only one long driveway in and out and fields gated off this driveway, but obviously not a deterrent to them. To make it worse spray man only told me this morning that one of the door locks was playing up so he had left it unlocked. May have actually worked in our favour as at least they did not break the door to check inside the cab and nothing was taken. Concern for next harvest when the combine needs to stay over there though.

IH 684 · Oct 16, 2015

Do you lads not dig ditches around field edges, install box section out opening gates, fill in unofficial pull ins, the idiots soon get fed up when they end up in a newly dug ditch, or find they cant drive through 4" box steel gates

JACK F · Oct 16, 2015

Only so much you can do. Would cost a lot to ditch all open areas of our fields. Have gates in certain areas but others I can not be doing with the cost of installing them and hassle of having to keep unlocking them. We have a lot of main road frontage with our fields and byways that cross our land. Our farm tracks which are byways are where we have most coursing issues. There are a couple of large outfits locally that appear to have a gate in every opening of every field over thousands of acres so some make the effort. We should do the same really but it would not be a small task.

Badshot · Oct 16, 2015

JACK F said:
Only so much you can do. Would cost a lot to ditch all open areas of our fields. Have gates in certain areas but others I can not be doing with the cost of installing them and hassle of having to keep unlocking them. We have a lot of main road frontage with our fields and byways that cross our land. Our farm tracks which are byways are where we have most coursing issues. There are a couple of large outfits locally that appear to have a gate in every opening of every field over thousands of acres so some make the effort. We should do the same really but it would not be a small task.

Not forgetting once you dig a ditch you then have to not spray/fert/cultivate close to it either

Landy Nick · Oct 16, 2015

JACK F said:
Not far from Chelmsford. Pikey camps near each block of land we farm. Know the people who do most the coursing but as the main one has unfortunately pointed out, he can do us a lot more harm than I can do him. Nasty piece of work but won't be long before he is in prison again.
Diesel will have ended up in other camp near that land. They are reknowned for diesel, kerosene thefts with loads pinched from local villages. Police raid occasionally and confiscate their pumps and ibc's etc but make no arrests and soon back at it.
On a plus note they had taken the cover off the battery but left it on tractor, also gps, sprayer box not touched in cab.

Sounds like you are in the thick of it over in your direction with sites near your blocks of land.
I'm not far from bishops stortford. There is the odd small site about here. Although I don't think they are as bad as in other areas.
The coursers seemed to had died off a bit now that all the stubble has gone. I'm almost certain these ain't from local sites and are from further afield.

db9go · Oct 17, 2015

Badshot said:
Not forgetting once you dig a ditch you then have to not spray/fert/cultivate close to it either

i think you can have a dry ditch

Badshot · Oct 17, 2015

db9go said:
i think you can have a dry ditch

Wet or dry it's still a minimum of two meters from the centre, and one from the top of the bank for all sprays, fert, and cultivations.
A dry ditch allows LERAPS to be reduced for some chems.

bovrill · Oct 23, 2015

New vehicle out this evening, a white Transit dropside, sign written for a block paving firm, Brett something, reg no SF64UTV.
Irish bloke driving, and two youngsters out in the field working two lurchers.
I presume the younger of the two boys is just under the required 14 years of age, so everything can be blamed on him if caught, and of course he's under age to be prosecuted. He was the one squealing that they were his 'dags' that had got away when I caught up with them!

jade35 · Oct 26, 2015

Looking at the Government website it gives the following details -

Registration number: SF64 UTV
✗ Untaxed
Tax due: 01 September 2015

MOT
No details held by DVLA

New keepers must get tax before using the vehicle.
If you have taxed, made a SORN or had a MOT it can take up to 5 days for these details to be shown above. If you have a valid paper MoT certificate this is proof that the vehicle has been tested.

Vehicle details

Vehicle make FORD
Date of first registration 18 September 2014
Year of manufacture 2014
Cylinder capacity (cc) 2198cc
CO₂Emissions 234 g/km
Fuel type DIESEL
Vehicle status Not taxed
Vehicle colour WHITE
Vehicle type approval N1
Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY
Revenue weight 3500kg

Heathland · Oct 31, 2015

Had the courses around me this week all over my rape on the Heath and all over my neighbours winter barley,anyway spotted some courses on my neighbours wheat/rape on the way home from the supermarket and I stop to film them on my phone they drove straight at me,didn't fancy my RRS getting side rammed so let them go,good film tho,just exercising dogs,can hear it now.
V 205 JNO Vauxhall Frontera slate blue black rim wheels,informed boys in blue

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Badshot · Oct 31, 2015

They are that light fingered they nicked a ratchet strap I had holding a dual wheel up against a pole.

Heathland · Oct 31, 2015

Well Police have just got back in touch,what a surprise false plates,bar stewards.

essexpete · Oct 31, 2015

Landy Nick said:
Not good to hear. What rough area of Essex are you.

Oh the irony!

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