Poacher Block

[Chris F]

These look like a great idea - I've not seen them before but looks like they have been at a few of the shows.

Can anyone see any faults in this?

As a rule, tractors over 120 hp plus should be able to have the clearance over the block. Please ask for more details if unsure.
All self-propelled sprayers will have clearance and quad bikes are able to fit in between the gaps.
We see the block being removed before harvest and put back in place after sowing and rolling has been completed. Block can be lifted or dragged by the towing eye facilities at each end.
£250 per Block or 5 for £1000

http://poacherblock.co.uk/poacher-block-2/

 

[7610 super q]

If these were placed in a gateway with road frontage, and some numpty reversed into one trying a 3 point turn, and damaged his car, would you be liable ?

 

[bobk]

Good idea that , will the baler get over ?

 

[bobk]

If these were placed in a gateway with road frontage, and some numpty reversed into one trying a 3 point turn, and damaged his car, would you be liable ?

Not if it's your land .

 

[Grassman]

Good idea that , will the baler get over ?

It will but might leave the bottom string tensioner behind!

 

[7610 super q]

Not if it's your land .

I wonder. Common sense ended in 1995.

 

[bobk]

I wonder. Common sense ended in 1995.

So did mine ....

 

[Bluetooth]

Quad bikes can get through them and they can be dragged, 2 ways past them already.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Some decent gates will be cheaper and look a lot better

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Tow bar, rope, chain or strap and pull it out the way?

 

[Still Farming]

As stated else where allsorts got hiabs these days if no one noticed???

 

[Tarw Coch]

Tow bar, rope, chain or strap and pull it out the way?

As with most forms of security, it does more to discourage the casual opportunist than those more intent on gaining access.

 

[ARW]

Few bits of wood as a ramp over the humps

 

[Farmer Roy]

FFS - seriously, is crime that big an issue in the UK ?

 

[Andrew]

FFS - seriously, is crime that big an issue in the UK ?

Yes.

Personally I’m not sure about them, you’d have to have them set back from the road a fair bit so you were crossing them dead square otherwise trailer wheels would catch.
Can fire engines / ambulances get over them if the worst happens?

 

[Dry Rot]

Well, at only £250 (+VAT?) each, they've got to be a snip!

 

[icanshootwell]

I don,t get this, what are we trying to achieve? Keep the farm truck safe but not quad that just happens to be the number one theft item on British farms. The farm truck is worth a few grand but you can drive the three figure fendt down the road. Or is it to keep the baddies from driving into the farm yard that most would walk in anyway.

 

[Andrew]

I don,t get this, what are we trying to achieve? Keep the farm truck safe but not quad that just happens to be the number one theft item on British farms. The farm truck is worth a few grand but you can drive the three figure fendt down the road. Or is it to keep the baddies from driving into the farm yard that most would walk in anyway.

To keep hare coursers from driving over the fields........

 

[Shutesy]

I don,t get this, what are we trying to achieve? Keep the farm truck safe but not quad that just happens to be the number one theft item on British farms. The farm truck is worth a few grand but you can drive the three figure fendt down the road. Or is it to keep the baddies from driving into the farm yard that most would walk in anyway.

Pretty much its just designed to stop crappy 4x4s that hare coursers use getting in through your field entrances but allowing tractors to still get in rather than stopping your stuff being taken from your yard. I'm not sure a grain trailer axle or a seed drill will get over them so i think the idea is perhaps move it for harvest. Stick it back in the gateway till cultivations and drilling, move it again, then once the fields sown plonk it back in place and leave it till harvest again as the sprayer and spreader should get over it ok throughout the year.

Tow bar, rope, chain or strap and pull it out the way?

Few bits of angle hammered into the ground on the corners should stop it being dragged away but allow it to be lifted and the metal sticking out the ground should be wide enough apart to not cause an issue with anything then driving through?

Few bits of wood as a ramp over the humps

Think it would need a dedicated set of hair coursers to start bringing lumps of wood and sturdy planks in there cars to get over these things. As with a lot of these things I think its a case of discourage enough so they go elsewhere.

I quite like the idea and may try a couple here.

 

[Still Farming]

Flytippers withJust tip their crap on top of it.