tinyurl.com/d2zzaf
This has some info.
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I drive regularly on back lanes. One farmer constantly had about 300yds of mud outside his gate. Bit like a skid pan. Local Community cop had words and it was cleaned up. Farmers are responsible for cleaning it up.
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Good link Old Navy, it looks like the OP's answer is "yes, you can complain", and jogs my memory - i have seen trucks being hosed down before leaving building sites to go onto the road, obviously for this very reason, presumably the farmer(s) know too - hence the sign.
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Thats helpful, Lud!
More detail, please OP, is it a main road or one of those little unclassed roads in the middle of nowhere which connects farms, fields and little else?
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It makes no differnce. Rural roads are the most dangerous in the country. Tractors Trailers
Artics. Horses Cattle Pheasants. Badgers. Walkers. Boy racers. You name it they are all looking for that 10'ft of road.
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A farmer once told me that by law they were required to clean up the cow-pats but not the mud. It is of course impossible to tell the difference once a few cars have driven over it so why bother?
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More importantly, it gives your highly polished wine gum a rakish patina suggesting it might actually be used.
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b308, its a main road id suppose , the only road between villages used by all not what youd call a little back lane or nothing
tbh im cheesed off becuase i like to keep my car clean and its impossible having to drive through this mess every time i go out , but im sure it would be pretty nasty going on a motorbike/moped on that road
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From that earlier post it seems you may have to have a quiet word with the local plod about it... I'm assuming that its dangerous rather than just dirtying your car which is what I'd expect as normal if you live in the middle of a farming area!
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madux, Was the farmer trying to avoid a possible complaint to the authorities? I would guess most farmers know the score wether they admit it or not.
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Of course he was ON, that was his get-out clause.
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We live on the edge of a town but to get anywhere after we have negotiated all the interminable speed humps, we often choose to use to use rural B roads to avoid traffic. I am absolutely convinced that my wife, who as far as I know has never washed a car, deliberately seeks out the muddiest ones when she borrows one of mine.......
:-(
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If you drive a car around it gets dirt and mud on it.
When farmers move tractors or cattle from one field to another they get mud on the road.
I don't sympathise even remotely with an attitude that wants to complain and make someone responsible for enforcing road cleanliness.
Cars, especially very clean cars, look a lot better when they have gone through a bit of mud at high speed anyway.
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Lud, I think you have your capital hat on there.
A muddy road as described by the OP presents a danger to other road users, or at the very least, deliberately leaving mud on the road is anti-social.
It is also wholly avoidable.
The farmer has a choice:
Either wash the tackle before taking it on the road.
Or clean up the mess he's made.
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I think the comment about cowpats and mud are the wrong way round. Horse riders AFAIK have no need to pick up after their animals, but muddying the road is up there with spilling diseasel for liability if you get caught.
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Before getting the law involved, it may be worth having a word with the clerk to the parish council and have it brought up as an agenda item. Generally the local farmers are well known to the parish council - in all probability, there'll be at least one farmer on it.
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You want to eat? You need farmers.
You want to live in the country you need to expect smells, tractors and shxtty roads.
It's not like those tv relocation shows you know.
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 21/02/2009 at 02:40
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I think you have your capital hat on there.
Hardly. I've driven quite a bit in four continents now, not just in capital cities...
Only in this country would a person think of complaining to the resigned, won't-do-anything-about-it-anyway-if-they-can-possibly-avoid-it authorities because a farmer had made the road muddy. Strikes me as utterly absurd, and annoying too.
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Only in this country would a person think of complaining to the resigned,
Try hitting a foot deep pile of squidgy mud on a motorbike and you would sing a different tune.
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Loskie - I suspect that many of our population haven't made the link between farmers and the food they eat. Tesco probably springs to mind for many of them.
Hmmm, country roads and mud. Bit like Gin and tonic. Makes the driving more interesting and the washing more satisfying. (No, not the G&T)
Onto my main point though: I think we've had enough Police bashing and baiting on here, so I suggest we turn our attention to farmers, subsidies, 4 wheel drive vehicles and anything else anyone can think of. And fox hunting.
I'm joking......
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..."we've had enough Police bashing and baiting on here..."
Whatever gave you that idea?? :-)
"...so I suggest we turn our attention to farmers, subsidies, 4 wheel drive vehicles and anything else anyone can think of. And fox hunting."
Only as they relate to motoring, of course.
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......... cow-pats but not the mud. It is of course impossible to tell the difference ..............
You townies might not be able to tell the difference, but us country folk will know what diet the cows have been on and which plants in our garden would benefit most from that particular sample of dung! Luvvly jubbly!
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You townies might not be able to tell the difference....
How dare you call me a townie!
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How dare you call me a townie!
Are you not? Pray, good sir, what's your pedigree?
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Are you not? Pray good sir what's your pedigree? ;-)
Bred in Darkest Devon, lived most of my life in Wildest Wiltshire, if you must know.
Now you are going to tell me you have to live in a barn your whole life to not qualify as a townie!
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Now you are going to tell me you have to live in a barn your whole life to not qualify as a townie!
No, you'll do for me.
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If you live in the real countryside where the economy depends upon farming of one sort or another you have to put up with a bit of muck and odd smells, dust etc.
The only way to live in a sterile rural environment would be to live in a country park.
Could always buy a 4x4, up out of the mud and bullets..;)
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Farmers are obliged to clean roads of muck if it poses a safety hazard. I'd ask my missus if she was about, she did the case that that defined the law on it about 20 years ago.
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Farmers should and usually do take care to avoid leaving muck in the roads, or will take the effort to warn road users of its presence (as in this case).
It's surely all part of good driving to keep your eye out for such hazards when on rural roads where people work.
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