People driving round fields at night

[Right-arm fast]

At the moment round here we are regularly having people driving round the fields at night. They gain access by driving through locked field gates. An eye witness about 2 months ago said that the vehicle hit the gate at 50-60 mph. The police do nothing apart from dish out crime reference numbers. My son looked out of the kitchen window at about 11.30 and saw 4 men on a quad bike about 30m away on the farm drive shining torches around, including into my pickup. Spoke to our neighbours and they are having the same issues. If the police aren’t interested what do you do?

 

[Farmer_Joe]

put lumps of concrete in gate holes or rows of spikes

 

[Willie adie]

Bury old sets of harrows in the gates they use

 

[Chae1]

2.2 and night vision scope.

If there hitting gates at 50-60mph and airbags not going off or causing them serious injury. I'd beef up the gates a bit.

 

[Right-arm fast]

They will drive through the hedges if I block the gates.

 

[Right-arm fast]

2.2 and night vision scope.

The police would be interested then!

 

[Lincs Lass]

Dirty great tree trunk across the gatehole ,,Concrete lego blocks ,a few manky silage bales in hedge gaps or dig deap trenches

 

[Chae1]

The police would be interested then!

I'm not suggesting you kill people. Could you shoot out there radiators?

For quads a farmer I know put up some high tensile wires at head height.

 

[Right-arm fast]

I'm not suggesting you kill people. Could you shoot out there radiators?

For quads a farmer I know put up some high tensile wires at head height.

I’m not that good with a rifle. If I aimed at the radiator the bullet would hit anything but the radiator!

 

[Chae1]

I’m not that good with a rifle. If I aimed at the radiator the bullet would hit anything but the radiator!

Neither am I! Just what they do in the movies.

 

[melted welly]

Slurry? Nice big water splash filled with shyte.

 

[Flat 10]

Complain to MP, police and crime commissioner and everyone you can think of. Totally unacceptable. You need to take the practical measures outlined above though

 

[teslacoils]

When you report them, you need to say certain magic keywords to get them logged as crimes that look bad in the official figures.

I'll pose the question though, if they didn't get back home who would miss them?

But in reality plod will take the easy option. What you want is to get them logged using the "magic words" then after a "police figures calendar year" use a foi request to identify the "shocking rise in crime X / dreadful clearup rate" and splash it all over the local press. Ideally around local election time.

 

[solo]

They have cut the lock off my gates about three weeks ago after hare coursing on a stubble field, but this time they haven't driven over the planted fields. Haven't been back since, but my neighbour has just had her padlock cut off the field gate Thursday night. Police have shown more interest and patrols recently, but partly because there are plenty of garden shed and sheep thefts ongoing around here. I haven't got the magic answer you're looking for. Last year was quieter due to field conditions I think.

 

[PSQ]

If you have a suitable gateway that isn’t used by you but is affected by ram raiders: old steel 5 bar gate, replace the 2nd bar and with a piece of 40mm solid steel, bar bolted *solidly* into the straining post at each end.

They only target farmers because they see us as easy targets, soon as they meet serious resistance they visit someone else.
In the case of a ‘dead stop’ against your gate, it will be multiple visits to the dentist; good enough for them, dirty barstewards.

 

[Werzle]

Chase after them and if a good bollocking doesnt deter them ring the police and say you have been threatened with what looks like a gun.

 

[Dry Rot]

Cars in fields will equal trespass, so a civil crime to plod. You need some imagination to make it definitely appear criminal. Theft? Threats to life or limb? Guns?

 

[theboytheboy]

Sure i saw on here a picture with plastic tree guards used to hide scaffold bars driven into the ground. Ideal to "gap up" a hole in a hedge that has been used as a regular access for unwanted visits

 

[Kidds]

Sure i saw on here a picture with plastic tree guards used to hide scaffold bars driven into the ground. Ideal to "gap up" a hole in a hedge that has been used as a regular access for unwanted visits

Post knocker and railway line would be better.

 

[puppet]

I think if you drive onto a length of scaffolding pole reversing is going to be tricky. Sounds quite effective