Not sure I'd get my more "traditionally sized" tractors over these barriers either!
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Not sure I'd get my more "traditionally sized" tractors over these barriers either!
Electric?Which is best, high tensile or standard, 2 strand of 3??
I don't know how recent this was but I just put that VRN onto the MOT checker and it expired on the 5th! That would give plod an easy box tick.We’ve never had much trouble touch wood , but the last couple of weeks there’s been folks driving over most farms locally , over drilled crops and stubble turnips etc. Locked our gates now as they’d been left open for muck spreading etc.
Early hours Monday morning they got stuck in a rut on neighbours field and abandoned ship . View attachment 989500View attachment 989502
Dad has had alot of dealings with them he has always said they will respect you more if you that your problems to them rather then the police.All quiet at the moment. We have got on well with the locals in the past, I even went and pulled out a caravan with the tractor once for them and we cut the hedge round their little area every year and Mrs. comes out and pays for it. The children went to the primary school long enough to read, write and add up although big sister was always at the gate to hurry the small ones away.
So it might be visitors or even people from the town. We know they have been riding round in the fields for years as we can see the tracks. And we mutter about it but never done much to stop it. However, letting 40 cattle out was too much, and then the broken locks and then the following night coming up the field right next to the house.
Needless to say, the Police haven't been even though one was supposed to, but it is logged on the system.
So many logs in gateways now and keep our fingers crossed things don't get nasty.
I've got to dispute this. There was a bit of muck fell off a trailer on the outskirts of our town. There were three policemen there in a very short space of time and the driver got fined several hundred pounds.You can watch drug dealers at work from the barber shop in town while having a haircut. Why oh why can't the police do this? Why are they so chronically unimaginative and unenthusiastic in their approach to solving crime? I honestly think they just aren't interested in cleaning the place up. Car boot sales again would net a significant haul of miscreants as would a proper investigation of ebay. Where are the VAT receipts for starters? Truth is the powers that be aren't interested. They see such losses to ordinary folk as a price worth paying, to be picked up by our insurance premiums rather than actually getting off their arses and doing something proactive. A bit like the NHS the Police have become a kind of self serving institution. It's all about pensions and early retirement now and a few easy pickings for the speed camera van.
I f it was me I would go and see the local travellers, ask for the top man and have a chat. I am not from traveller heritage nor do I have any link to them but I have had interaction and dealings with them. In my opinion if you show them the same level of courtesy and respect that you would expect yourself you will get on all right. Just don't go in wanting conflict or you will get it. If you can get a local 'head' on your side his word will be bankable and will be obeyed by all. Even if it means showing them where some of your stubble ground is to exercise their dogs as a trade off. Underneath it all they are old fashioned and actually honourable in their own way and yes rough around the edges.
What are you basing this on? Have you had this happen to you? Have you ever dealt with them?Do that and you’ll be a victim for ever more:
“For £1000 I’m sure the boys could be persuaded to do a bit ‘security work’ for you. Cash only, and have the money ready every September…”
What are you basing this on? Have you had this happen to you? Have you ever dealt with them?
I don’t care if you agree. We haven’t had a ‘visit’ in 2 years, unlike my neighbours. There is a way that works, and it isn’t ‘appeasement’ or laying yourself open to extortion or ‘protection’.Have to say I disagree with you on this one. The fact that you have had to 'deal' with 30+ hare coursers over the years maybe shows your approach didn't work that well.
I can't see any drawbacks to at least trying to have a discussion with the local travellers, as has been said on this thread the locals up to now have been amicable and they if so inclined would have the power to stop it.I don’t care if you agree. We haven’t had a ‘visit’ in 2 years, unlike my neighbours. There is a way that works, and it isn’t ‘appeasement’ or laying yourself open to extortion or ‘protection’.
Also, it sort of gives away your attitude to the whole situation when you are comparing travellers to Nazi's.
I remember being told on a health and safety course, about a factory, where children broke in, started riding round on the forklifts and had an accident. The owner was guilty, because they left the keys in the ignition (in the locked factory!), so, I think the law says we have a duty of care even to trespassers !How is it malicious if I’ve left an implement in the field?!
Osama Shumungus is an unusual name thoughSuppose its better than the south of England middle class city dwelling people we meet on family holidays in Spain, with our accents and my first name they just think I am a terrorist.
So yes @PSQ I'll 'do me' and 'you do you' and we'll be none the worse for it. Just trying to offer another option.
And if you phone the police they always have to "come from Gainsborough". Why aren't they out an about at night patrolling? What good is it sat in fudgin Gainsborough?