Video: Motorist fuming with farmers dirtying rural roads

Written by Agriland Team

A member of the public has taken to Facebook to voice their frustration at mud on a rural road in the UK saying it was “an absolute joke”.

The man – who told AgriLand he wished to remain unnamed – said he was driving on a rural road near Penzance in west Cornwall, when he came across the dirty road.

He outlined one road user on a motorbike had to dismount and push their bike through the mud and that he had to drive very slowly through it.


He outlined that the road was cleaned an hour after he first came across the mud on it.

I know the farmers do a good job but at the end of the day, that could have caused an accident.

He believes farmers “should have a hosepipe at the field entrance” to clean wheels and prevent this clay from getting out on the road.

He said: “The mud was lethal on the road and was probably about 3in deep.”



The man who works in property maintenance said his van “could just about pull through the mud” from the farmers.

M7 incident


Meanwhile, in Ireland, the M7 Dublin-Limerick motorway was closed for a short while earlier today, Thursday, October 24, following an incident where a trailer being towed by a 4X4 overturned.

The incident took place on the southbound route on the Kildare/Laois border between junction 14, Monasterevin and junction 15 Ballybrittas.

In a statement to AgriLand, a spokesperson for An Garda Síochána said:

Gardaí are currently dealing with a road traffic collision on the M7 between J14 and J15 which occurred at approximately 11:00am.

“No injuries reported at this time,” the Garda representative added.

In additional information on social media, the Garda Twitter account noted:

“Due to a road traffic collision the M7 southbound is closed between J14 and J15. Expect delays.”

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[farmerm]

Farmers are equally frustrated this Autumn! As farmers we have a duty of care to other road users but all road users also have a duty of care towards themselves and other road users and need to make appropriate allowances when driving on rural roads. Mud on roads does not only come from vehicles leaving fields but also where the verges get chewed up because rural roads are not built or maintained wide enough and with enough passing spaces to adequately cater for the volume and size of traffic that now need to use them.

 

[ridger]

Aye have a hosepipe at the gate lol

 

[Canada Farmer]

Aye have a hosepipe at the gate lol

Eh, hosepipe?

 

[ridger]

Eh, hosepipe?

Sarcasm

 

[Still Farming]

That looks like normal road conditions?

 

[flatliner]

3 inches my arse.

 

[primmiemoo]

It's an unusually wide road for rural South West, and, although the angle could be misleading, the tractor tracks don't look over wide. I've seen muddier, tbh, and the road in the photo was swept within the hour, apparently.

Reads as though the farmer has acted responsibly, actually, but is harvesting in soggy conditions - and that maize isn't an appropriate crop for the type of ground, maybe?

Some arrogant types buy tractors and machinery that are far too big and wide for the locality, and do damage roads, verges, and their drainage points. They cause damage to the fabric of the highway as well as causing the occasional muddy road hazard.

 

[Still Farming]

It's an unusually wide road for rural South West, and, although the angle could be misleading, the tractor tracks don't look over wide. I've seen muddier, tbh, and the road in the photo was swept within the hour, apparently.

Reads as though the farmer has acted responsibly, actually, but is harvesting in soggy conditions - and that maize isn't an appropriate crop for the type of ground, maybe?

Some arrogant types buy tractors and machinery that are far too big and wide for the locality, and do damage roads, verges, and their drainage points. They cause damage to the fabric of the highway as well as causing the occasional muddy road hazard.

And some don't help themselves with putting warnings up and brush or scraper on?
Pigs about.

 

[kiwi pom]

You're going to get mud on the road in a wet year no matter what you do, although some try harder than others to avoid it.
The annoying bit is when the paddocks finished and everyone's gone but there has been no attempt to clean up, especially if its really bad.
That's just laziness.

 

[An Gof]

It's an unusually wide road for rural South West, and, although the angle could be misleading, the tractor tracks don't look over wide. I've seen muddier, tbh, and the road in the photo was swept within the hour, apparently.

Reads as though the farmer has acted responsibly, actually, but is harvesting in soggy conditions - and that maize isn't an appropriate crop for the type of ground, maybe?

Some arrogant types buy tractors and machinery that are far too big and wide for the locality, and do damage roads, verges, and their drainage points. They cause damage to the fabric of the highway as well as causing the occasional muddy road hazard.

In the video it said it was around St Erth. Pretty intensive around there with potatoes, cauliflower etc etc and no doubt Maize for dairy herds and poss AD plant.
At the end of the video there is a road sign placed on the road on the RHS by an entrance. That might be a “mud on road” sign put out by a responsible farmer.
it’s been a dreadful autumn and people need a bit of slack. Methinks it’s “Much ado about nothing”

 

[bluegreen]

We have four big maize gangs at work in my locality presently hauling to big AD plants and all of them have a working road brush constantly sweeping up behind the haulage tractors. They are doing all they can too assist road safety. People want to use renewable energies, so a certain amount of tolerance and patience is required by them.