There are some complete morons about

thorpe

Member
our council are very good generaly acontractor does all there work . afew years ago he replaced astile with a swing gate , we had endless trouble , motorbikes horse riders stock tresspassing etc . he phoned for acess for some other work told him of the problem and told him we wanted a kissing gate , it was replaced next day.
 

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
I can't begin to tell you just how happy I am to have moved to a farm with no footpaths, I would not entertain the idea of buying one with a footpath in it.
Selling a farm at the moment and I insisted they rewrote the brochure to say there are no known footpaths rather than just saying sold subject to any footpaths. If I was buying and the details mentioned a footpath I'd just stop reading.
Surely there must be a point where compensation for a footpath is justified because they must devalue the land now they have became dog walking highways rather than the unused ancient route to the nearest church.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
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.
Mate of mine is having the metal kissing gates grinded off and thrown in the hedges. People cutting holes in netting for there dogs to walk through is a favourite around here but i think they are usually numpties who get a kick out of doing it, that and grinding locks off gates for no reason.
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Get a few letters about stiles being knackered every now and again. I just put them in the bin now. I did ring them up once and enquired as to whether they would train me or my staff to erect stiles and bridges but they refused. I asked whether they thought we would be insured for stile/bridge construction in case it failed whilst being used but they didn't know and wouldn't proffer any advice other than a stile kit would cost £80. I said that seeing as they didn't help me then I wouldn't help them....simples.
 

Forkdriver

Member
Livestock Farmer
I can't begin to tell you just how happy I am to have moved to a farm with no footpaths, I would not entertain the idea of buying one with a footpath in it.
Selling a farm at the moment and I insisted they rewrote the brochure to say there are no known footpaths rather than just saying sold subject to any footpaths. If I was buying and the details mentioned a footpath I'd just stop reading.
Surely there must be a point where compensation for a footpath is justified because they must devalue the land now they have became dog walking highways rather than the unused ancient route to the nearest church.
Same here. Unfortunately we have discovered that the Ramblers have marked up their lost footpaths map with an internal track that goes to the next door farm, now disused as the farms haven't been in the same ownership for many years. It's shown on a turn of the last century Bartholomew's map, but not on another map. Going back to the national archives we find that it didn't exist in the 1846 Tithes map, so it proves it hasn't been there forever and we hope will allow us to get it thrown out when the time comes for all these claimed lost rights to be investigated.
If you dare to be disappointed or to thank your lucky stars, log into the Ramblers site.
 
Location
southwest
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. ;)
I'd write to the PC formally complaining about the Councillor/neighbour
 

Kidds

Member
Horticulture
If you dare to be disappointed or to thank your lucky stars, log into the Ramblers site.
I have already looked and none here, there is one claimed that used to go through the farm yard but that was officially closed some decades ago and registered and paid for. Doesn't cross any land I still own and the owners of the barn conversions can fight that one.
 
Got to be local walkers or something, cutting off the rails means stock will easily escape, no?? I'd repair them but put some rebar in them or bore a hole down the middle and put in a load of concrete? I see the OP photo shows the rails have been cut at an angle to make them even more difficult to join back together?
 

Andy12345

Member
Location
Somerset
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. ;)
I used box section with a high tensile round bar inside on my garage, not sure if its effective tho no one tried to break in again.
 

sahara

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Somerset
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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Many years ago, sat having a post demo lunch with a dealer, in the mountains of southwest France, several characters like those came into the restaurant.
"Look, he's lost his skis "
Don't for a minute think that French men have no sense of humour!
 

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