I'm getting a bit afraid now ............

[Cheesehead]

My advice would be head South.

As much as Australia sound nice I hate snakes and poisonous spiders

 

[Nearly]

Just done the annual redistribution of concrete blocks and railway sleepers back into roadside gateways.

 

[essexpete]

Need to have a few mates and catch 1 ,drop his trousers shove small length of plastic water pipe in rear end .slide similar length of barbed wire into pipe. Remove pipe leaving wire in place

WTF trained you?

 

[Cheesehead]

WTF trained you?

Sounds like personal experience

 

[Dog]

I know of a farmer/ mill owner that had a fall out with some traveler types. Ended up with him and 2 other members of his family going round to their camp site with a JCB and a shot gun. The three of them are in jail awaiting trial and two travelers are missing limbs.

 

[Barleymow]

WTF trained you?

Heard a story that it was done on London, mite be made up lol, but victim was dropped off outside casualty

 

[davidroberts30]

Heard a story that it was done on London, mite be made up lol, but victim was dropped off outside casualty

Sitting or standing

 

[flowerpot]

All quiet at the moment. We have got on well with the locals in the past, I even went and pulled out a caravan with the tractor once for them and we cut the hedge round their little area every year and Mrs. comes out and pays for it. The children went to the primary school long enough to read, write and add up although big sister was always at the gate to hurry the small ones away.

So it might be visitors or even people from the town. We know they have been riding round in the fields for years as we can see the tracks. And we mutter about it but never done much to stop it. However, letting 40 cattle out was too much, and then the broken locks and then the following night coming up the field right next to the house.

Needless to say, the Police haven't been even though one was supposed to, but it is logged on the system.
So many logs in gateways now and keep our fingers crossed things don't get nasty.

 

[Lofty1984]

All quiet at the moment. We have got on well with the locals in the past, I even went and pulled out a caravan with the tractor once for them and we cut the hedge round their little area every year and Mrs. comes out and pays for it. The children went to the primary school long enough to read, write and add up although big sister was always at the gate to hurry the small ones away.

So it might be visitors or even people from the town. We know they have been riding round in the fields for years as we can see the tracks. And we mutter about it but never done much to stop it. However, letting 40 cattle out was too much, and then the broken locks and then the following night coming up the field right next to the house.

Needless to say, the Police haven't been even though one was supposed to, but it is logged on the system.
So many logs in gateways now and keep our fingers crossed things don't get nasty.

If you get on well with the locals have a word they may be able to pull rank on whoever is doing this to you

 

[DrWazzock]

Its not necessarily travellers. Plenty of others at it.

 

[DrWazzock]

Drive round the estates in town and wonder why there is a 4wd on LGP tyres parked outside covered in mud. Detective work isn't rocket science. It didn't get in that state going to Tescos nor needed lamps on the roof to load the shopping.

 

[teslacoils]

Drive round the estates in town and wonder why there is a 4wd on LGP tyres parked outside covered in mud. Detective work isn't rocket science. It didn't get in that state going to Tescos nor needed lamps on the roof to load the shopping.

Did you knife the tyres on the way past? After making suitable checks.

 

[JohnGalway]

Dropping dogs chasing animal on your land is the most sensible thing I’ve seen good way of sorting it in my eyes they are highly unlikely to return.

I'd think they're more likely to return, but to do as much damage to whatever they could find.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I know of a farmer/ mill owner that had a fall out with some traveler types. Ended up with him and 2 other members of his family going round to their camp site with a JCB and a shot gun. The three of them are in jail awaiting trial and two travelers are missing limbs.

We're they unarmed?

 

[Farmer_Joe]

If you get on well with the locals have a word they may be able to pull rank on whoever is doing this to you

Exactly this get em on side I bet they will help out if your friendly, why have enemies when you can have friends

 

[DrWazzock]

Did you knife the tyres on the way past? After making suitable checks.

I share your frustration with this kind of thing but sadly it will only make matters worse taking the law into our own hands. If I saw a suspicious vehicle parked up in passing I'd probably inform the police. They'd laugh in my face but it might help piece something together though they seem pretty reticent on the detective work front.
We had a spate of diesel thefts here a few years back. Everybody knew and still does know who it was, a chap who lived in the town. The police even caught him with several spray drums of diesel in his vehicle but somehow couldn't pin it on him.
In reality if the police drove through some of the local estates in the early hours or parked up for a bit and watched they would probably learn a lot more than sat at HQ supping tea. A lot of the vehicles used actually stick out like sore thumbs. Subaru Foresters or whatever they call them all seem to used for nefarious purposes. Surely a quick scan of the DVLA records for who owns these vehicles would be a goldmine of information. Number plate recognition, a few all night patrols, stop and search, a network of farmers eyes on the ground and you would think we could have the job sorted but no, all we get is a visit from PCSO Dibble 24 hours after its happened if we are lucky.

 

[DrWazzock]

You can watch drug dealers at work from the barber shop in town while having a haircut. Why oh why can't the police do this? Why are they so chronically unimaginative and unenthusiastic in their approach to solving crime? I honestly think they just aren't interested in cleaning the place up. Car boot sales again would net a significant haul of miscreants as would a proper investigation of ebay. Where are the VAT receipts for starters? Truth is the powers that be aren't interested. They see such losses to ordinary folk as a price worth paying, to be picked up by our insurance premiums rather than actually getting off their arses and doing something proactive. A bit like the NHS the Police have become a kind of self serving institution. It's all about pensions and early retirement now and a few easy pickings for the speed camera van.

 

[DrWazzock]

And if you phone the police they always have to "come from Gainsborough". Why aren't they out an about at night patrolling? What good is it sat in fudgin Gainsborough?

 

[manhill]

Need to have a few mates and catch 1 ,drop his trousers shove small length of plastic water pipe in rear end .slide similar length of barbed wire into pipe. Remove pipe leaving wire in place

Which is best, high tensile or standard, 2 strand of 3??

 

[borderterribles]

I share your frustration with this kind of thing but sadly it will only make matters worse taking the law into our own hands. If I saw a suspicious vehicle parked up in passing I'd probably inform the police. They'd laugh in my face but it might help piece something together though they seem pretty reticent on the detective work front.
We had a spate of diesel thefts here a few years back. Everybody knew and still does know who it was, a chap who lived in the town. The police even caught him with several spray drums of diesel in his vehicle but somehow couldn't pin it on him.
In reality if the police drove through some of the local estates in the early hours or parked up for a bit and watched they would probably learn a lot more than sat at HQ supping tea. A lot of the vehicles used actually stick out like sore thumbs. Subaru Foresters or whatever they call them all seem to used for nefarious purposes. Surely a quick scan of the DVLA records for who owns these vehicles would be a goldmine of information. Number plate recognition, a few all night patrols, stop and search, a network of farmers eyes on the ground and you would think we could have the job sorted but no, all we get is a visit from PCSO Dibble 24 hours after its happened if we are lucky.

You may be making the mistake of assuming that they have the registration documents in their name!
There is a well known Midlands dealer whose SIL has running dogs and likes a spot of nocturnal Coursing. He reckons its a cheap hobby, as he pays his fines at a tenner a week