Residential Neighbour spraying weed killer into field

Farmer9 · May 6, 2022

neilo said:
I assume it was all fired back over into his garden? That usually stops them ime, or leads to a situation where you can explain why their cr*p has been carefully returned to source…

Oh yes all fired back over. The glass was the last straw it got left on their door step with a letter then a huge argument happened over the garden fence lol but hey their not farmers they didn’t know weed killer could make cattle sick

Farmer9 · May 6, 2022

kiwi pom said:
Pictures?
You say "his bank" ?
If he's spraying your property just tell him its criminal damage and you'll report him to the police if he does it again.

There’s a barbed wire fence then he has a stone bank on his side. I’ve taken pictures. The wife is a bin lid and not in mood for another shouting match with her and him stand there denying he sprayed weed killer

David. · May 6, 2022

A bin lid

ollie989898 · May 6, 2022

Put letter through the door. Tell them any more instances and solicitors will be involved.

Bongodog · May 6, 2022

Don't you have a scruffy cattle float you can park against the boundary for a few weeks ?

Farmer_Joe · May 6, 2022

Shipping container that would focus minds

Cab-over Pete · May 6, 2022

Drive a few lengths of steel Into the ground and then bolt, or even better weld, a few lengths of motorway crash barrier across the back of his property, a few inches inside your boundary.

f**k ‘em.

I see it nearly every day wherever I’m spreading. I would estimate half of people who have a garden bordering a field have a gate into that field.

One customer could easily grab another 10 furrows of ground from his neighbours. I was spreading there when someone came out complaining about the dust. I usually knock on doors before I start but I didn’t for this row of vermin huts. It would be a fallout before I even started. Told the benefit scrounger a bit of lime dust was nothing to worry about compared to the shite he was smoking.

But the big posh houses are the worst. Pristine gardens and all their waste in the field. If they were my neighbours the whole lot would be scooped up and dumped back over.

Sharpy · May 6, 2022

Cab-over Pete said:
Drive a few lengths of steel Into the ground and then bolt, or even better weld, a few lengths of motorway crash barrier across the back of his property, a few inches inside your boundary.

f**k ‘em.

I see it nearly every day wherever I’m spreading. I would estimate half of people who have a garden bordering a field have a gate into that field.

One customer could easily grab another 10 furrows of ground from his neighbours. I was spreading there when someone came out complaining about the dust. I usually knock on doors before I start but I didn’t for this row of vermin huts. It would be a fallout before I even started. Told the benefit scrounger a bit of lime dust was nothing to worry about compared to the shite he was smoking.

But the big posh houses are the worst. Pristine gardens and all their waste in the field. If they were my neighbours the whole lot would be scooped up and dumped back over.

I worked as a harvest student at a farm just outside Chelmsford, the farmer was a decent bloke but took no sh!t. We turned up to combine one field bordering houses to discover quite a few had dumped grass clippings, rubble, knackered garden shed etc on his field. As soon as the field was combined he got the teleporter and returned every bit of it to its owners! Police were called and said he was within his rights, was over thirty years ago though.

nails · May 6, 2022

warksfarmer said:
Criminal damage so report it to the police. At the very least he’ll get a visit from plod if you choose your words wisely !

You will be very lucky to get the police to take any notice of a minor crime like that nowadays. Unless someone is out on a killing spree they will stay at home eating Donuts .

nails · May 6, 2022

Hjcarter said:
Have you been and spoken and explained what the risks are to the cattle? Ask them to make sure it doesn't drift onto your land.

Sometimes just explaining and asking is all it takes.

I have a row of houses down the edge of my land and that is what i do , talk to them and explain. If they repeat offend i bury them.

Hjcarter · May 6, 2022

nails said:
I have a row of houses down the edge of my land and that is what i do , talk to them and explain. If they repeat offend i bury them.

Seems like a fair approach...

melted welly · May 6, 2022

Sharpy said:
I worked as a harvest student at a farm just outside Chelmsford, the farmer was a decent bloke but took no sh!t. We turned up to combine one field bordering houses to discover quite a few had dumped grass clippings, rubble, knackered garden shed etc on his field. As soon as the field was combined he got the teleporter and returned every bit of it to its owners! Police were called and said he was within his rights, was over thirty years ago though.

Wasn’t Boyton Hall was it?

kiwi pom · May 6, 2022

Farmer9 said:
There’s a barbed wire fence then he has a stone bank on his side. I’ve taken pictures. The wife is a bin lid and not in mood for another shouting match with her and him stand there denying he sprayed weed killer

He can spray his bank on his property though surely?
Just to be clear, he's spraying his property AND coming into your field and spraying it? Which of course is a big no no. Or is he spraying the base of the fence to stop grass growing on to his side?
Not taking sides, I just like to know what's actually happening. It seems strange that he would just wander into your field and spray random strips.

Still Farming · May 6, 2022

nails said:
You will be very lucky to get the police to take any notice of a minor crime like that nowadays. Unless someone is out on a killing spree they will stay at home eating Donuts .

They just say civil matter and F off.

Vader · May 6, 2022

neilo said:
I assume it was all fired back over into his garden? That usually stops them ime, or leads to a situation where you can explain why their cr*p has been carefully returned to source…

Yeah.
Had some ppl putting rubbish over fence onto arable field. Asked 1 to move it twice, mainly branches from tree they cut down. Did not move them so stopped on headland run and threw all back over.
Was also 2 lumps of waste cement they dumped over.
2 doors down same field, had new fence put in. All old concrete fence footings on my side. All went back over...

BBC · May 6, 2022

Years ago had a city banker type buy a weekend cottage alongside a field. Porche, personalised number plate, interior designers, garden designer, you name it, he employed them to help ruin his four bedroom ‘castle’, which he obviously assumed also came with ‘Lord of the Manor’ rights over the village and right to roam wherever he wanted.

Having spent a fortune ruining the garden, I felt the least I could do as a good neighbour when he wasn’t there was to ‘Nitram bomb’ the garden, so would occasionally forget to turn the spreader off having backed up to the fence, or throw a few handfuls over the fence for good measure (certainly wouldn’t do it now!)

Anyway the results were pretty spectacular, the lawn growth was impressive and the one border in range was luxuriant, as were the weeds. Unfortunately any thoughts he had of relaxing in the garden supping a pimms or three were ruined by the constant need to mow the grass, especially when they had not been for a couple of weeks and eventually got too much and they ended up moving.

serf · May 6, 2022

Cab-over Pete said:
this row of vermin huts

warksfarmer · May 6, 2022

nails said:
You will be very lucky to get the police to take any notice of a minor crime like that nowadays. Unless someone is out on a killing spree they will stay at home eating Donuts .

Which is why I said for him to choose his words wisely. Trigger words and the police will visit.

Kidds · May 6, 2022

pansies have built their f**king greenhouse in my field. Not impressed but no less impressed than they will be if they don't put it right and a shagged 40' scrap trailer appears on their boundary.

Sharpy · May 6, 2022

melted welly said:
Wasn’t Boyton Hall was it?

No. Have pmd you.

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