Member of the general public splattered with mud on bridle/public footpath.??

Pilatus

Member
Location
cotswolds
It could start a new fashion, coats with mud splatters on them for that been in the country look:rolleyes:

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You say that in jest , “a lovely slim woman walking in town wearing tight white, look a like jodhpurs, with printed/embroided brown mud splats on them”,has to be better than the same woman wearing jeans with holes in the knees.
Of course some may have genuinely worn the jeans knees in to holes due to being on all fours so much!!!!!!
doing gardening;);):D
 

roscoe erf

Member
Livestock Farmer
All hell broke loose at the Parish Council the other night.....

Children caught riding their toy quad bikes on the well surfaced Bridleway on the edge of the village. Parents reported, police called, councillors informed, agenda item for the Parish Council Meeting.....

Turns out that they had asked the farmer owner of the RoW for permission, which had been freely given because he felt sorry that the kids had nothing to do in the village of an evening.

Now, most of the village has turned their wrath on the farmer.....
Ffs :banghead:
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
All hell broke loose at the Parish Council the other night.....

Children caught riding their toy quad bikes on the well surfaced Bridleway on the edge of the village. Parents reported, police called, councillors informed, agenda item for the Parish Council Meeting.....

Turns out that they had asked the farmer owner of the RoW for permission, which had been freely given because he felt sorry that the kids had nothing to do in the village of an evening.

Now, most of the village has turned their wrath on the farmer.....
So typical!!!! We have a bridleway, all nice, tarmac which we also use as a farm track, we dont tend to get any problems except for when I allowed a friend to run his Manx Norton up and down it a few times one w-end, we have also had no end of race cars use it up to a Lola Hart machine which we reckoned was the quickest thing to use the bridleway but on the whole we get off lightly.
 

wr.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Breconshire
Two bridleways on our land and nobody, including the Brecon Beacons National Park who regularly drive motor vehicles on them, has ever told us we have no right to drive along the/our tracks. One of these tracks also provides access to two dwellings.
 

Simon Chiles

DD Moderator
It depends on whether the bridleway is subject to the Highway Code. If it is, then the the driver could be reported to the Police for driving without reasonable care and could potentially get up to 9 pts and £5000 fine, particularly if it was done deliberately.

How exactly! Don’t get me wrong I’m all for driving sensibly around people and definitely would like to give the right impression of farmers but for there to be any case at all they’d have to have proper witnesses ( not their mate ) otherwise how could they prove that it was your mud and even more importantly that it was actually thrown up by your telehandler. Anyone walking in the countryside could get dirt on them.
 
All hell broke loose at the Parish Council the other night.....

Children caught riding their toy quad bikes on the well surfaced Bridleway on the edge of the village. Parents reported, police called, councillors informed, agenda item for the Parish Council Meeting.....

Turns out that they had asked the farmer owner of the RoW for permission, which had been freely given because he felt sorry that the kids had nothing to do in the village of an evening.

Now, most of the village has turned their wrath on the farmer.....
Ffs, you just couldn't make this up, you sure its not from the script from Emmerdale?:rolleyes:
 

DrWazzock

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
We had a bridle way near to us, used mainly by walkers and horse riders and the occasional tractor. Then somebody on the council had a public enquiry and got it turned into a bye way open to all traffic on the basis that some old codger remembered a bakers van driving up it in 1926, taking a short cut to the big house.

Since that time it's become an off road race track for every vehicle known to mankind. Being untarmacced it gets huge potholes in it and the council gave up trying to repair it. Then came the claims for busted sump pans of which there were many so the council put up a sign saying "unsuitable for motor vehicles".

So there we have it. A once nice tranquil bridle way which was an asset and an amenity now turned into an impassable pot holed track. Well done Lincolnshire County Council.
 

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