Goweresque
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- North Wilts
The farm, because footpaths exist to allow labourers to walk to work. Its why so many footpaths end up going through farm yards, thats where people who lived in the countryside worked.
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HSE to clamp down on farms this 2019
- Thread starter carltoncole
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The farm, because footpaths exist to allow labourers to walk to work. Its why so many footpaths end up going through farm yards, thats where people who lived in the countryside worked.
But that was 300 years ago. Use seems to have changed from functional to recreational. There wasn't the danger of modern machinery back then, and folks had more respect & common sense.
To use a much over used phrase, these paths aren't fit for purpose.
- Location
- Cumbria
Perhaps there should be a high, medium and low risk category for humans, as there is no doubt some are more accident prone than others.
So, farms could be categorized as say a red risk area and any human in the x,y.z ?? category of risk is not allowed to enter, and if they do, they do at there own risk. Or signs that state we only allow a,e and g ?? category humans on our site.
Having idiot proof H&S rules is not sustainable, and will be unaffordable if we carry on the way we are going.
Reproduce the Country Code with some authority and legal clout, anyone roaming must have a Country Safety Test at a cost of £100.00 before doing so, if not they have zero redress.
So, farms could be categorized as say a red risk area and any human in the x,y.z ?? category of risk is not allowed to enter, and if they do, they do at there own risk. Or signs that state we only allow a,e and g ?? category humans on our site.
Having idiot proof H&S rules is not sustainable, and will be unaffordable if we carry on the way we are going.
Reproduce the Country Code with some authority and legal clout, anyone roaming must have a Country Safety Test at a cost of £100.00 before doing so, if not they have zero redress.
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
Donkey Jacket ??
bubble wrap
- Location
- West Somerset
Cotton wool
deleted user 837354
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Straight jacket...?
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Agreed on the farm, but the farmyard has probably expanded around the footpath rather than to one side of it? I am right next to a main thoroughfare, but would never think to build on both sides of it.
Not saying what’s right or wrong, but developing a yard to envelope a pedestrian route is obviously less sensible than developing one next to it. One to consider for anyone expanding an existing facility, perhaps.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I wouldn’t know. Not my yard, or my path.
- Location
- East yorks
It may well have been the yard was expanded 50yrs ago when the footpath saw 1 person a year not the recreational use it gets now. Housing estates/factories etc seem to get them moved but when it goes through a farm it’s impossible.
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
The whole planning permission system and codified network of footpaths has largely only existed post WW2, since the Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 and the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949. Prior to that it was a bit of a free for all. So back in Victorian times and earlier, when many farmsteads were first developed, the idea of 'building next to or on a footpath' just didn't exist, as a footpath didn't have a statutory legal definition, and there was no planning system either.
Scribus
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- Location
- Central Atlantic
Oooooh, think I'll pass on that, sounds neither comfortable nor particularly watertight!
- Location
- East Sussex
Sounds like a good reason to sell the farm yard for development and build a greenfield yard away from public access.
I wish.
DRC
Member
Good question. There was a cottage on site, then my landlords put a building up in the 70s, before new landlords moved us lock stock and barrel out of the village in the early 90s onto the site. No one bothered with the path until more and more new houses were built and a retired civil servant, made it her life’s work to make sure all the paths are open .
Goweresque
Member
- Location
- North Wilts
This video turned up in my youtube recommendations, god knows why:
- Location
- East Sussex
Had our visit today, very reasonable chap, noticed all my signs and a couple of new pto guards, seemed to show we’d made an effort, he mentioned welding fumes, no problem if weld outside, other than that, went away a happy chap!
Well done. I bet that’s a weight off your mind!
- Location
- East Sussex
Yes it is, I know we all need to do more to improve this industry but it’s nice to get pass that one for a bit.
deleted user 837354
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Oh ffs. Yes welding fumes obviously presenting the incredible risk to yourself given how much welding you do compared to 10 blokes in a sealed factory all welding for 9 hours a day constantly for 48 weeks a year. I suppose he expects a fully equipped fume extractor rig for your open fronted shed and the 20 hours of welding you might do a year?
These folk must be nuts.
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