Fly tipping. . .

weedkiller

Member
Location
rugby
This is what i found whilst hedgecutting this morning. Gates locked and concrete blocks in front of them yet they still manage to dump s#*t. Anyone else finding this a real problem at the moment?

P.s part worn tyres free to collect [emoji23]View attachment 738566

A couple of years ago when spraying aspargras in hartlebury I had the local transit drivers and there lovely offspring racing around the field and then dumping tree waste on the headlands and on the road , it got that bad you had to lock the gates when you were in the field .
 

Agriimark

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
A couple of years ago when spraying aspargras in hartlebury I had the local transit drivers and there lovely offspring racing around the field and then dumping tree waste on the headlands and on the road , it got that bad you had to lock the gates when you were in the field .
Did you work for sandfields? That is what we have to do now. If the gates left open then it will soon be blocked off with sh!t
 

weedkiller

Member
Location
rugby
Did you work for sandfields? That is what we have to do now. If the gates left open then it will soon be blocked off with sh!t

Yep, I was there for 7 long years, had 1 field next to there camp and there horses were grazing the aspagrass , if you said anything you got threatened and abused, the field by the primary school was bad as they used to wonder around it with guns after the rabbits- I even rang the police 1 day after I was threatened with a gun and they said I was pretty much on my own as they weren’t getting involved.
 

Lincoln75

Member
Yep, I was there for 7 long years, had 1 field next to there camp and there horses were grazing the aspagrass , if you said anything you got threatened and abused, the field by the primary school was bad as they used to wonder around it with guns after the rabbits- I even rang the police 1 day after I was threatened with a gun and they said I was pretty much on my own as they weren’t getting involved.
My response would have been "I`ll get a shot in first then" and put the phone down , I bet they`d have soon turned up then.
 

Agriimark

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Worcestershire
Yep, I was there for 7 long years, had 1 field next to there camp and there horses were grazing the aspagrass , if you said anything you got threatened and abused, the field by the primary school was bad as they used to wonder around it with guns after the rabbits- I even rang the police 1 day after I was threatened with a gun and they said I was pretty much on my own as they weren’t getting involved.
The photo i uploaded is from the field by the junction. Seems the worst one for fly tipping. The tyres will be moved this week and put on the roadside for somebody else to worry about [emoji16]
 

MissSteak

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
We get a lot of fly tipping at work. Mostly tyres and asbestos sheeting. It is costly to clean up, a total waste of tax payers money due to lazy barstewards shirking their responsibility.

I'd set up some wildlife trail cameras near fly tipping hot spots. Maybe a camera watching the original camera. You don't need CCTV signs for wildlife trail cameras. I think you can't remove personal letters, but need to leave them in situ until authorities see them. It won't stop you taking photies of the names and addresses.

Someone dumped rubbish on work land. They left a invoice with it. Unfortunately it was for a large quantity of "adult goods" purchased online.
 

Lincoln75

Member
If gateways were modified to have the gate right on the edge of the road then the pikey twits will have no off road parking , add some CCTV signs and it will reduce the risk of it happening to you .
Some home made bollards will also stop vehicle entry and can be placed with a telehandler.
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weedkiller

Member
Location
rugby
A few of the fields up near the main problem area the gates are right on the hedge line to stop them tipping waste in them but the problem then is you have to block the single track road to open the gates and it’s a bit of a rat run road but it seams it’s the only way of stopping them. They took the gates one day by cutting the hinges off as the top one was upside down so that they could tip rubbish in the field
 

uztrac

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
fakenham-norfolk
It is a very serious problem here in Norfolk as the council now charge for nearly everything disposed of at their sites,so fly tipping has quadrupled in the past 12 months since the charges were introduced.
 

Enfoff

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
East
Councils can't charge householders for domestic waste disposal only businesses. Council sites have to licenced by the EA and most will not have a licence for commercial waste. That is why they are usually hot on kicking out people they think are traders.
 

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