There are some complete morons about

[Grassman]

Isn't it down to the council to replace damaged Stiles

It depends on the local council.
Ours offer something like 50% of materials cost. Not sure how it's supposed to miraculously fit itself

I had a warning letter a couple of weeks ago about a stile that was in a poor state. (I knew it wanted sorting but was going to do it after harvest).
Saw a high vis man with clipboard on Monday who had come to check I had complied which I hadn't. So I got the chainsaw and removed it. Will install new one when I get chance.
Pity the council don't respond to problems as quickly as they expect us to do

 

[renewablejohn]

Mid September, and I was hoping it would quieten down on the moron front.
Spotted these clowns wandering round the garden last evening. Off you f**k, back to the road please...

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Have the same here. Has a map in hand but cannot be bothered to use it. I then get abused because the map they have not looked at says its the public footpath not my garden.

 

[DRC]

Isn't it down to the council to replace damaged Stiles

No I think it’s the landowner . There are waking groups locally that will install the metal kissing gates free of charge . We have allowed one of those , but resisted the rest as it allows easy access for dogs. They don’t like lifting them over stiles

 

[Wombat]

No I think it’s the landowner . There are waking groups locally that will install the metal kissing gates free of charge . We have allowed one of those , but resisted the rest as it allows easy access for dogs. They don’t like lifting them over stiles

Correct hardware on the path is the landowners responsibility and liability, the surface is the councils.

 

[Henarar]

Council do the Stiles round here

 

[Wombat]

Council do the Stiles round here

Consider your self lucky, as they are the landowners responsibility they often won’t

 

[Henarar]

Consider your self lucky, as they are the landowners responsibility they often won’t

Oh I do in so many ways

 

[Al R]

No I think it’s the landowner . There are waking groups locally that will install the metal kissing gates free of charge . We have allowed one of those , but resisted the rest as it allows easy access for dogs. They don’t like lifting them over stiles

Some of mine the top rail lifts up, others have a piece alongside where you lift a pole up and a dog can fit through..
why do stiles have gaps enough that lambs fit through? Some of mine are netted now…

 

[Nearly]

Re-educated one dog emptier last night. New to village, next door neighbour( on parish council ) had told him he could walk the field edge.
They've both been told the error of their ways.
We've a lot fewer of these to deal with than @snipe and they generally aren't sneaky up here.
Good luck.
Box section with steel rope inside is a nice suprise for such folk.
Nasty version for workshop windows is box section with threaded bungs in end full of petrol.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Replace with wood and trail cam…

a lot of work, but wouldn't it be better to weld on up from scaffold poles? Mind you the cost of steel now, just bought some from Dyfed Steels and they said it had doubled in cost!

 

[essexpete]

Might the OP, in the long run, be better fitting a steel kissing gate?

 

[neilo]

Ah yes, had a few of those last year during Lockdown, where a stile had been in place donkeys years, to loose a mutt through was the reason I guess. Pretty sure I know who the individual was, but proving it...

I now have to leave a dog pophole, which is also a lamb pop hole... Next models will have a small bar that can be lifted to loose dogs through!

At least when you do find the individual responsible, there’s a handy 3’ length of timber nearby for re-education purposes.

 

[Netherfield]

KIrklees Council's take on stiles.

Landowners and occupiers must make sure that formally
recorded and authorised stiles and gates are kept in a
good state of repair. The council’s duty is to make sure
landowners and occupiers meet this obligation and we
may offer a grant of 25% towards repairing such stiles
and gates.
Highways Act 1980 section 146

 

[Grassman]

Consider your self lucky, as they are the landowners responsibility they often won’t

Oh I do in so many ways

Good looks, wit and wealth?

 

[Wombat]

KIrklees Council's take on stiles.

Landowners and occupiers must make sure that formally
recorded and authorised stiles and gates are kept in a
good state of repair. The council’s duty is to make sure
landowners and occupiers meet this obligation and we
may offer a grant of 25% towards repairing such stiles
and gates.
Highways Act 1980 section 146

Here they won't help on stiles as they want rid for accessability but will swap to a kissing gate FOC.

 

[ShooTa]

just make sure the feckless idiot the council gets to put in the gates actually understand how kissing gates function.
ours have the scoop INSIDE the field... which is where (when the sheep are in there) the sheep esp lambs go and camp.

 

[bobk]

Isn't it down to the council to replace damaged Stiles

T'is here , I'm not touching them

 

[warksfarmer]

Someone has chop the rails off two of our stlies. They have been on the footpath since the 60s and no one has had a problem with them. I’m use to dealing with d!ckheads farming on the urban fringe but this has p!ssed me right of for some reason.

I had an idiot a couple of weeks ago saying that the straw swath had blocked the footpath. He reported it and the phone call I got from the officer was along the lines of why have you deliberately blocked off the footpath with hundreds of thousands tonnes of bales. Told them to bore off and get off their arse and take a look. Heard nothing since.

 

[bobk]

No I think it’s the landowner . There are waking groups locally that will install the metal kissing gates free of charge . We have allowed one of those , but resisted the rest as it allows easy access for dogs. They don’t like lifting them over stiles

We have extra high stiles

 

[holywell farmer]

Someone has chop the rails off two of our stlies. They have been on the footpath since the 60s and no one has had a problem with them. I’m use to dealing with d!ckheads farming on the urban fringe but this has p!ssed me right of for some reason.

There is a woodland on the mold Denbigh road,
this summer it had two branches stolen from it people don't careful for the countryside anymore sadly.