River Lugg, Herefordshire

[Sharpy]

If only they could cart all that lovely silt up here. I'd take a foot spread nicely over my farm.

That's basically what @warplandfarmer has is it not?

 

[teslacoils]

It's what they did at Armholme near Doncaster. Carted all the silt there and spread it 18" deep. Suppose in those days they didn't have all the water industry's crap in it then.....

 

[Steevo]

That's basically what @warplandfarmer has is it not?

@Warp Land Farmer

 

[Werzle]

Not when you have some bullpoo degree that gets you a job in the ea.

On a slightly different subject a mate of mine had a site meeting before commencing a timber extraction job in the local forestry. There were 18, yes 18, yes you did read that right 18 nrw officers !!!! At this site meeting so they could decide whether the job would go ahead !!!!! The amount of tax payers money wasted employing these idiots is unbelievable !

Would of been 19 if they hadnt laid poor old dave off

 

[Exfarmer]

It's what they did at Armholme near Doncaster. Carted all the silt there and spread it 18" deep. Suppose in those days they didn't have all the water industry's crap in it then.....

No it would have been full of the crap the industrial revolution bought such as lead , mercury, want more?
My father used to say that a winter flood was like a bag of nitrogen ( the old fashioned blue plastic hundredweight ones ) with the local towns sewage works upstream. In those days they used to release all the crap out of the tanks in flood conditions.

 

[TheTallGuy]

No it would have been full of the crap the industrial revolution bought such as lead , mercury, want more?
My father used to say that a winter flood was like a bag of nitrogen ( the old fashioned blue plastic hundredweight ones ) with the local towns sewage works upstream. In those days they used to release all the crap out of the tanks in flood conditions.

Now they just do it whenever they feel like it!

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Who are the local MPs and are they interested.

We have a Labour MP who is a local person & to be fair he does his job properly, despite the fact farmers probably don't vote for him.
The other end of the village has a Tory MP who is a complete waste of space, parachuted in to a safe seat & now has a cabinet position.

 

[yellowbelly]

you, and others need to stop applying logic, this thread is full of it!

the EA don’t work like us, this thread is an embarrassment to the government, I really hope someone of power reads this and acts.

From what I can see, the current government is woefully short on logical thinking too, so best not hold your hopes up too high.

 

[Werzle]

Friend of mine yesterday had three EA chaps turn up in three seperate trucks, they said an EA audit had found a rotted gate post on a 3ft gate which is used to inspect an old flood relief valve. Fair enough the gate and post had been put in 8-10 yrs ago by the EA and was dug in about a ft at most and crap from day one, latch didnt catch after the first winter flood etc etc. He directed them all to said gate and moaned it was rubbish from day 1 etc etc. To his amazement they thanked him for the info and said we have only come to look at it today , we will be back in a few weeks to fix it! It just beggars belief at what one gate post will cost to renew with all these visits etc, one decent chap in one truck with the willingness to use a spade and the job would be done. Its bloody shamefull.

 

[Pilatus]

Friend of mine yesterday had three EA chaps turn up in three seperate trucks, they said an EA audit had found a rotted gate post on a 3ft gate which is used to inspect an old flood relief valve. Fair enough the gate and post had been put in 8-10 yrs ago by the EA and was dug in about a ft at most and crap from day one, latch didnt catch after the first winter flood etc etc. He directed them all to said gate and moaned it was rubbish from day 1 etc etc. To his amazement they thanked him for the info and said we have only come to look at it today , we will be back in a few weeks to fix it! It just beggars belief at what one gate post will cost to renew with all these visits etc, one decent chap in one truck with the willingness to use a spade and the job would be done. Its bloody shamefull.

Now what type of degree does one need to be a gate/gate post inspector

 

[Nearly]

a 90 Degree?

 

[Ramrod]

a 90 Degree?
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Looks well used.

 

[ollie989898]

Friend of mine yesterday had three EA chaps turn up in three seperate trucks, they said an EA audit had found a rotted gate post on a 3ft gate which is used to inspect an old flood relief valve. Fair enough the gate and post had been put in 8-10 yrs ago by the EA and was dug in about a ft at most and crap from day one, latch didnt catch after the first winter flood etc etc. He directed them all to said gate and moaned it was rubbish from day 1 etc etc. To his amazement they thanked him for the info and said we have only come to look at it today , we will be back in a few weeks to fix it! It just beggars belief at what one gate post will cost to renew with all these visits etc, one decent chap in one truck with the willingness to use a spade and the job would be done. Its bloody shamefull.

These guys must be out making a site audit- it doesn't take three guys in a car each to do this. They are making work and fudging around in the process. Probably on near 30K a year salary plus their pension all taking the time and diesel to look at a fudging gatepost.

 

[teslacoils]

Given the length of time and number of visits it took two Cadent contractors to put up 16*3m runs of fence (turning down the offer of the tractor mounted post knocker, or taking all their gear there with the loader) I'd say three chaps doing two visits to change a gate post was pretty good value.

 

[texelburger]

It's frightening that we have people employed by the EA who are utterly and I mean totally,utterly clueless. They are the very same people telling us we can't apply poultry manure in the autumn when the water companies can discharge neat sewage into our watercourses in periods of high rainfall.

 

[Steevo]

It's frightening that we have people employed by the EA who are utterly and I mean totally,utterly clueless. They are the very same people telling us we can't apply poultry manure in the autumn when the water companies can discharge neat sewage into our watercourses in periods of high rainfall.

That's the madness of the world today. Only two things seem to matter:

1) Do you have the right piece of paper?
2) In order to get the above piece of paper you have paid a fee (and/or have to pay an ongoing fee) to the organisation that is responsible for dishing out those pieces of paper.

 

[Werzle]

Tbf railway maintainance companies and highways are all the same too, makes me mad when people blame budget cuts on these groups and yet a blind man can see where they could save millions. If farmers went about jobs like they do the world would have starved by now. I dont know how staff can go to work everyday and just go through the motions pretending to work , it would drive me mad and make the days drag. Mind numbing.

 

[br jones]

Tbf railway maintainance companies and highways are all the same too, makes me mad when people blame budget cuts on these groups and yet a blind man can see where they could save millions. If farmers went about jobs like they do the world would have starved by now. I dont know how staff can go to work everyday and just go through the motions pretending to work , it would drive me mad and make the days drag. Mind numbing.

But a lot of them think they aare doing important work ,and have been taught how to do it that way

 

[pycoed]

a 90 Degree?
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Is your name Lepetomane?

 

[yellowbelly]

Is your name Lepetomane?

That's my favourite bit of Blazing Saddles