Mud in road......complaint!

Netherfield

Member
Location
West Yorkshire
Not playing golf at the moment though, well not round here anyway.

We use to get them climbing over dry stone walls, inevitably the wall toppings get knocked and then the wall falls. After numerous warnings to the secretary nothing changed, until one day I lathered the wall with Pig slurry.

Brother in Law plays there sometimes, and now there's a warning to all players that any ball going over in to the field must not be retrieved, could easy find a couple of hundred balls after mowing.

And someone else rents it now.
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
Not playing golf at the moment though, well not round here anyway.

We use to get them climbing over dry stone walls, inevitably the wall toppings get knocked and then the wall falls. After numerous warnings to the secretary nothing changed, until one day I lathered the wall with Pig slurry.

Brother in Law plays there sometimes, and now there's a warning to all players that any ball going over in to the field must not be retrieved, could easy find a couple of hundred balls after mowing.

And someone else rents it now.

And they are a bloody nuisance through a mower!! Used to have a neighbour who "practiced his swing" on one of our grazing fields until I caught him and gave him a bollocking about the risks to our cattle from his lost golf balls! Gobshite!!
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
Had APHA out to do a welfare check on my maternals last weekend. Someone had reported to the RSPCA “100s of sheep locked in a tiny field with no water, mostly lame and carcasses scattered everywhere”.

The ewes are in 3ha paddocks moved every 2 days, along with a drag trough of mains water. There’s some earlies lambing and a bit of scald as the grass is long (they’ve been wintered on cover crops). Said to the inspector I’d be gathering a foot bathing at the end of the month when this batch finishes lambing. She was an ex shearer and more than happy with stock and set up.

Obviously complaint was “anonymous“. I’d bet a lot of money is a neighbour who’s upset that my electric fence paddocks have put an end to their freestyle trespassing with numerous off lead dogs.

I have followed the advice here from you and a.n.other Member, re dog walkers and sheep, and I now have a high power battery energiser, soon to be mains, triple steel wire electric fences, 3m from the footpath. I was pleased to see one particular individual who Herself has had a run-in with in the past, is now keeping his spaniel on a lead... :sneaky:

Our Tenants said they heard a dog howl last weekend who had they reckon had caught the wire, in spite of numerous signs...
 
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Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Good for you @Jerry for trying to appease the complainant.

I had a gentleman getting all shouty at me about some mud on the road near by.
He was threatening to call the police as it was on a sharp bend blah blah blah
So I went and had a look and saw the contractor creating the mess and conveyed what was said to me. Anyway road was cleared before police came. 6 months later I was in the pub and the occupier of said land came up pi$$ed as and was having a right go about me calling the police on him. Bloody Chinese whispers and alcohol!
 
Had our Parrish Council Secretary (A retired Oxford lecturer) bollock me for having a electric fence arround a pheasant pen that his dog had been shocked by.
He said that I needed to put a sign up warning everyone about it.

I told him to let me know when his dog had learned to read, then I would!
Nah , just tell him if his dog comes on to your property that it will be leaving in a box....🤔😉
 

ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
We were fencing one of my own fields just outside a small village, it was winter and we were parking the pickup and trailer on a large verge opposite the gateway, it wasn’t making much mess but clearly leaving marks.
We were sat on the end door having bait and the local village idiot pulls up and shouts at us for a good 2 minutes about the mess we are making on the verge and the mud on the road and it was making his car dirty that he has to have it washed everyday because of our mess, I should be locked up for ruining the village were he lives and I’m devaluing his property. I bit my tongue and didn’t say much, I told him it could be a lot worse and we had been scraping the road if needs be and you could only just see wheel marks on the verge. We got the job done and left not making much of a mark, a day later the hedgecutter man comes and runs all over the verge making ruts 1ft deep on every pass squirting muck all over the road and chewing up every inch of grass for half a mile before the village!
 

Paddington

Member
Location
Soggy Shropshire
I’ve had a call this morning from the council, some one has complained about mud on road after hauling some digestate and three spreaders went along a lane this morning at about 10:30am


Said I’d go look and report back and when there bumped into the plaintiff, the manager of the golf course next door. She had a right moan and admitted she’d called the council and also the environment agency🙄.

This is the mud in road in question..............I kid you not!

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I went back to see her and said there was nothing to worry about but she was adamant it needed clearing up.

I said I was not going g to and rang the council chap back and sent him the pictures...he burst out laughing as it had been described as “a river of sh!t”.

I told him he needed to have a word with the lady for wasting everyone’s time.
That would be listed as a B road in good condition around here.
 

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