What can we do if blocked in or out?

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
Following on from the thread about the farmer who "moved" a car out of his drive with a telehandler just what can we do if blocked in or out of our land or on a road blocked by poor parking?
In an ideal world police would come out and sort the situation very quickly but in the real world they just havn't the manpower.
So what can we legally do?
 

Campbell

Member
Location
Herefordshire
Let's be careful out there.
299178901.gallery.jpgHereford Police will use every resource when rounding up illegal vehicles.
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
I have told this story before. I came out the pub at chucking out time to find my car blocked in. The offending car was unlocked, so I got in, rolled it down the slope and parked it in someone's driveway. I got back to my own car and waited. The car driver came out to find his car moved down the road. He arrived to collect it just as the house owner realised someone had parked in his drive. The ensuing row was "interesting".

As teenagers, one of the members of our little group was a farmer's son. They had a lane on their farm, privately owned, that joined county roads at each end. It was a small lane, seldom used and quite over grown, so very attractive to camper vans parking over night. My mate's favourite sport after the pub was to drive down the lane and wake the occupant of the camper van and get him to move his vehicle. Watching the van owner clambering into the driver's seat in his undies in the head lights was quite comical. He would then go around the block, back into the lane, by which time the camper van would be back in the lane. I still feel for the van owner. Sometimes this would be repeated several times. The poor sod was not doing any harm and his holiday was being spoilt. On the other hand, it was rather funny -- if cruel!
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
I wonder if " Them pesky kids did it " would wash, if the steering / suspension geometry got damaged which caused an accident later at 70mph on the motorway resulting in the deaths of the family in said car, and also a major pile up resulting in another dozen fatalities ?

You know me, always thinking of the elf n safety angle......:whistle:
They do bend quite easily.

Eg on the old Mazda 323 rallycar we could "adjust" the rear toe by hand, foot against the inside of the wheelarch and pull, (some clown used to have a hard time keeping it within the scenery)

We regularly need to tirfor cars around by passing a strap around a wheel, and the flex is quite incredible
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
They do bend quite easily.

Eg on the old Mazda 323 rallycar we could "adjust" the rear toe by hand, foot against the inside of the wheelarch and pull, (some clown used to have a hard time keeping it within the scenery)

We regularly need to tirfor cars around by passing a strap around a wheel, and the flex is quite incredible
Yes, as said in posts above I think you've either got to do what the OP did, and prepare to be sued, or leave the car alone. Easier said than done when you can't access your field to combine on the only dry day of the year. This ain't the 1960's anymore where common sense prevails, and you could just drag cars sideways any old how. I'm sure telehandler forks would surely do some sort of damage to the underneath of the car too. I'd love to know if any action is taken against the farmer in the video. I hope not. I think he's done us all a favour, bit like the Tony Martin scenario. How many scrotes thought twice about burglaring farm houses after that.............
 
There are plenty of parking places with gates that need access sometimes but not always. Surely in these cases it's just a case of a sign asking the owner to leave a phone number. Most people don't want to cause an issue. Obviously blocking lanes and yard entrances is just wilful ignorance.
 

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
jumped a few pages, we used to get problems with a narrow street, and combine access, despite signs, phone calls, and knocking on doors, days before, usually not to bad, 1 year, 1 chap point blank refused to be helpful, car duly blocked access, 6 of us manhandled it into his narrow drive gateway, sideways, never heard how he got it out, seeing as there was only about 4ins leeway, both ends of his car, no problems next harvest.
We have a dead end road, that has had a few cars burnt out, in our fields along it, tele handler, pallet forks, car on council road, their problem.
 

MRT

Member
Livestock Farmer
Yes, as said in posts above I think you've either got to do what the OP did, and prepare to be sued, or leave the car alone. Easier said than done when you can't access your field to combine on the only dry day of the year. This ain't the 1960's anymore where common sense prevails, and you could just drag cars sideways any old how. I'm sure telehandler forks would surely do some sort of damage to the underneath of the car too. I'd love to know if any action is taken against the farmer in the video. I hope not. I think he's done us all a favour, bit like the Tony Martin scenario. How many scrotes thought twice about burglaring farm houses after that.............
Well maybe farmers need to sue for the lost crop, diesel, time more. Value of all that is more than the car sometimes.
 

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
Interesting reading the replies. Seems their isn't anything "lawful" we can do about moving a car blocking us in or out.
So we just grin and bare it or risk damages claim for moving a vehicle.
However if that's the case then the car owner has no claim against us If we block the car in! So looks like keeping a couple of heavy objects handy and block the car 8n and charge them a fee to move them👍😀
 

MRT

Member
Livestock Farmer
Maybe its better in this day and age to get your phone out, record the car plate and situation, all your losses (whatever they may be) and then block them in plus your phone number so they can contact you to escape, involve plod at this point and claim on thier insurance/sue them etc etc
 

thesilentone

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Cumbria
Why not embrace and welcome the public to park on your land for a fee and a parking charge, in a high traffic area this could well be a money spinner,


I don't know why the Councils don't have emergency parking plans and agreements with farmers for the popular areas that are clearly not suited to the deluges of visitors they are getting.
 

D14

Member
Following on from the thread about the farmer who "moved" a car out of his drive with a telehandler just what can we do if blocked in or out of our land or on a road blocked by poor parking?
In an ideal world police would come out and sort the situation very quickly but in the real world they just havn't the manpower.
So what can we legally do?

Moved a few now over the years from gateways onto roadside verges. Just make sure theres nobody around and they don't have a dash cam inside the vehicle. Always used pallet tine extensions wrapped in fertiliser bags or similar so reduce potential damage. The problem is those people won't do it again but for every one who's learnt a lesson theirs another 100 who will do it because they don't have any common sense.
 

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