Gatepost and delivery lorry.

[Skimmer]

Why send them the Bill?

They did damage the old one regardless of condition and will probably expect to pay for it.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

could we have a better picture

 

[An Gof]

Ok thanks all. So hundreds of lorries and machinery been through that gateway over the decades and have turned and been back through - without damage. It was careless driving. It can't be widened.
If it was a car, tractor, barn, house, person, pet, cow etc instead of the gatepost, "one" wouldn't just let it go.

Think you’ve answered your own question Good luck with the claim

 

[Cowabunga]

I suppose you bend over and take it all the time do you? Didn't strike me as that sort of person to be honest!

You could give some a 30 ft gateway and the div would still prang something somehow!

That's hardly the point here though is it. Should he actually put in a nice new 16ft or even 30ft gate and then someone hit it, fair enough he would have grounds to be upset.
As it is, it looks from his second post as if he's just looking for justification for making a tit of himself with the haulier. I mean, just look at the thing! It's a bloody shambles. I'm not even denying that I've got plenty of similar shambles of my own, but I would welcome an excuse or a nudge to get them sorted, nice and neat and tidy and fit for purpose. Indeed I've just put a drain and shale in an uneven field gateway that was widened with new posts and gate about three years ago. It's generally called 'Improvement' and/or 'maintenance'.

 

[Cowabunga]

They did damage the old one regardless of condition and will probably expect to pay for it.

If I was them I'd send some more baler twine.

 

[caveman]

Looks good and rustic to me and matches the surroundings.
Think of all the wildlife that will benifit from that split.

 

[sawdust]

Easier to widen it than dig out the 2 barrowfulls of concrete around the base?

Shovel fulls

 

[sawdust]

Ok thanks all. So hundreds of lorries and machinery been through that gateway over the decades and have turned and been back through - without damage. It was careless driving. It can't be widened.
If it was a car, tractor, barn, house, person, pet, cow etc instead of the gatepost, "one" wouldn't just let it go.

If you were that bothered about it you'd have been for a look when the honest driver reported to you about the accident In the first place!

 

[ARW]

A bunch of farmers debating the fate of a knackered old sleeper!

 

[sawdust]

A bunch of farmers debating the fate of a knackered old sleeper!

It's worth about £1.25 in kindling terms

 

[caveman]

It's worth about £1.25 in kindling terms

Is that split and bundled into pimps?

 

[sawdust]

Is that split and bundled into pimps?

I'm afraid not, would need to be sold as a job lot, as half will end up as stoor before the hatchet ever sees it

 

[Bobthebuilder]

It's worth about £1.25 in kindling terms

not even good for kindling as it's full of knots

 

[Y Fan Wen]

We had an entrance with a pair of 16 ft gates, some drivers could still manage to hit the posts.

My shepherd managed that with a pair of twelves using a LR and IW!!

 

[glasshouse]

Last Thurs delivery lorry delivered something and on turning hit and broke the gatepost.
As I unloaded the item the driver did say that he hit the post but I admit I didn't go and look at it with him and didn't give it another thought until seeing it Friday.
Still standing but is broken, must have done some damage to his curtain.
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(The string is holding up the stake not the post) This was how I found it. I know it has seen better days but it was concreted in so isn't a 5 min job replacing. Can I seek compensation of some kind, and have I left it too late?

Just put a new one in and say nowt. The driver might lose his job if you go off, at least he was honest.
Same has happened to me many times, but they were nearly new posts and no confession.
How wide is the gateway, the sleeper has seen better days i think

 

[kiwi pom]

Ok thanks all. So hundreds of lorries and machinery been through that gateway over the decades and have turned and been back through - without damage. It was careless driving. It can't be widened.
If it was a car, tractor, barn, house, person, pet, cow etc instead of the gatepost, "one" wouldn't just let it go.

Fair point. So how wide is the current gate and the road you drive in off? Trucks and machinery have got bigger over the decades its been there, maybe take the opportunity to make it big enough for several more decades.
If you send the bill in the driver will tell his boss he told you about it, so you could sort something out and you didn't even look at it.

 

[bobajob]

The sleeper was probably new about 100 years ago!, I think it’s seen better days!

 

[Bobthebuilder]

judging by the pic i think everyone would benefit from a new post, possibly wider gates, a new fence and some of the undergrowth cut back

 

[paddy1001]

The driver was honest enough to tell you about hitting a knackered old sleeper at the gateway even if it likely could have landed him in a pile of bother with you and/or his employer, as you said he likely damaged the curtain sider too so had to go back and report that to the employer also.
Take it on the chin and replace it with a nice new tidy post and hope that you get the same time out of it as you did that one and save the driver more agro.
Also have you any pictures of the entrance as a whole?

 

[michael N123]

It looks like it already needed changed anyway... The driver was honest with you and you chose to ignore it at the time ringing up complaining now will just cause bother for him and risk his job