- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Those of you that are taking number plates down, you do realise that most of them are false anyway?
My cunning plan is to never have anything worth nicking.
My cunning plan is to never have anything worth nicking.
What do you do when a Pikey drives on the yard?
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YorkshireAndrew
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- Location
- West / North Yorks border
Those of you that are taking number plates down, you do realise that most of them are false anyway?
My cunning plan is to never have anything worth nicking.
We had some on the yard one day , I reported the vehicle & reg number which all matched up . A few months later I got a call from South Yorkshire Police to say it had been on false plates & would I try & identify the driver in an identity parade . Rightly or wrongly I politely declined their offer .
It never surprises me on how much of the local area and people they know. We have the "Would you be interested in a diesel generator" brigade turn up around here around the same time every year, "I can be doing you a good deal as we're backon the boat tonight and I don't want to be taking them home". This year they spotted my motor and followed me into Aldi carpark, last year they called round at my house, that's the second year as they pulled up the year before saying that I might be interested as a mate of mine had said where I lived, I know damned well that he hadn't.
Nearly all of my contacts in the local Land Rover Club were called upon as well which by far was too much of a coincidence and it wasn't as if all of these people are linked by any one thing such as Farcebook as I'd suspected as there's the odd ones not on there. Give them their due, they do know where to find their "target audience"
Nearly all of my contacts in the local Land Rover Club were called upon as well which by far was too much of a coincidence and it wasn't as if all of these people are linked by any one thing such as Farcebook as I'd suspected as there's the odd ones not on there. Give them their due, they do know where to find their "target audience"
Putting locked gates accross the drive when you have a public footpath going though the middle of your yard is for some reason frowned upon
Guy near us has these on his access track which has a bridlepath.
His are IAE however I can’t find them on their website.
http://secure-a-field.co.uk/product/horse-friendly-vehicle-barrier-gate-2/
- Location
- Portsmouth
We've just got some from centre wire.
Not fitted yet but helps get around the footpath through the yard and bridleway through the farm problem.
https://centrewire.com/product-category/2-in-1-combination-gates/
Not fitted yet but helps get around the footpath through the yard and bridleway through the farm problem.
https://centrewire.com/product-category/2-in-1-combination-gates/
- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
Pikey toolsalesman once pulled up next to my pickup at a t junction in local small town and tried to sell me goods through the window .
Paddington
Member
- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
The last white Transit pick up that called here left his business card which had the name of a genuine auctioneer based a few miles away. They were doing a special auction for used batteries, oh and any old metal gates if they were cluttering the place up. When questioned about his bona fides, chap reckoned he had worked with several of the experts from "Bargain Hunt".
Netherfield
Member
- Location
- West Yorkshire
More than likely he just either said or spelt the last word wronglyThe last white Transit pick up that called here left his business card which had the name of a genuine auctioneer based a few miles away. They were doing a special auction for used batteries, oh and any old metal gates if they were cluttering the place up. When questioned about his bona fides, chap reckoned he had worked with several of the experts from "Bargain Hunt".
Davey
Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
We've just got a normal set of gates with a throw over catch, no locks or anything but an obvious cctv camera pointing at the gate.
They don't seem to like to get out of the car/van to open the gate or walk up the drive past the camera.
Just make sure you put an ir flood light next to the camera as they have been known to drive round at night with night vision scope or similar looking for soft targets.
They don't seem to like to get out of the car/van to open the gate or walk up the drive past the camera.
Just make sure you put an ir flood light next to the camera as they have been known to drive round at night with night vision scope or similar looking for soft targets.
- Location
- South Wales UK
1 legal taxed and mot'ed white transit van but trouble is they got numerous on the same allegedly!
76masseyman
Member
- Location
- Lincolncestershire
Mates farm gate has a picture of his German Shepard and Rottweiler on it.
Underneath it says.........
'We can get to this gate in 6 seconds, you have to be back here in 5, and use the sixth to get back over it'.
Underneath it says.........
'We can get to this gate in 6 seconds, you have to be back here in 5, and use the sixth to get back over it'.
holywell farmer
Member
- Location
- holywell, north wales
Tell them to get off your yard !
When I first got my cctv cameras on my yard I mentioned it to the NFU rep hoping I might get a discount.
His response was “we might need to increase the police to cover the cameras”!!!!
They don’t insure us anymore.
Policy
itsalwaysme
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- Location
- Cheshire
Many years ago working at a Bedford main dealer, they would come in and pay cash for a new wagon, in those days you had a free service at 500 miles which included an oil change. One day one turned up for a first service (not bought from us) foreman was a bit suspicious as the wagon looked as though it had done more than 500 miles, he checked up with Bedford and after checking chassis numbers etc, it had already had more than 1 first service. Turned out they had a spare speedo head with about 500 miles on it which they were using for free services.
- Location
- flintshire
he passed here yesterday as was on the muck and had to reverse for him, had a lightbar on roof and flurecent waistcoat on, can trace him on my cctv !
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Yes, but in the past , farm yards actually had a farmer, some workers and a wife to keep an eye out.
itsalwaysme
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- Location
- Cheshire
Sorry you won't get a reply their away skiing for the winter
marco
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- Location
- tipperary, ireland
we have a decent enough lad around here, calls once a year and might buy a few small bits off him. if anyone else calls in, " sorry lads do all my dealings with blackie connors" not much they can say to that. it's a good way of doing things especially if he's a big lad, the others won't dare stand on his toes.