Joke???

[east sussex]

Hi Joe. I don’t suppose there’s any chance that you could check the field next to our house later in your rounds? It’s just that the quad bike is very loud outside our bedroom windows and wakes us up. I totally understand if this is not possible. You may already do this field last. We live in the country and lambs have to be checked in the morning!

 

[shbangsteve]

Very common I'm afraid. I used to farm in the middle of a village. Had all sorts of complaints about tractor noises, milk tanker vacuum pumps, dirty water irrigator tinging but the best was someone complaining about the cows mooing too loudly.

 

[old keeper]

Commonplace these days, I'm afraid. People move into the countryside and then complain about it. I could fill a book about the various moans and groans from "newcomers" in my village

 

[75]

I have to say, that's quite a polite message and quite respectful. It suggests some thought went into typing it and they didn't want to upset you.

For me it very much depends on specific circumstances. If you're driving a quad under someone's window at 5am and they have been on nightshift as an A&E doctor until the early hours and they are otherwise great neighbours, then I'd try and recognise their circumstances as much as you can. A bit of give and take goes a loooooooong way!

If you're driving hundreds of yards away at 830am and they are otherwise difficult arseholes then I'd be setting my alarm earlier and driving closer

Context is everything...

 

[Smellydog]

Gets on my bossoms it does. **** of back to town where they belong.

 

[Dunwaters]

Gets on my bossoms it does. **** of back to town where they belong.

As an ex shift worker….getting the head down before or after work could be a bit of an issue, the hours farmers work and run heavy machinery could really grind my gears.
Then there was shite spreading over half the county, usually when there was no wind and the whole place stank for days.
I often had to hose the dogs down and wash me boots after a ramble.
Let’s not mention the risks associated with walking through recently sprayed fields.
Townies are right, the countryside is a dangerous place, farmers should show a bit more consideration for the rest of us on our day out….just like they do on “ Countryfile”

 

[Smellydog]

As an ex shift worker….getting the head down before or after work could be a bit of an issue, the hours farmers work and run heavy machinery could really grind my gears.
Then there was shite spreading over half the county, usually when there was no wind and the whole place stank for days.
I often had to hose the dogs down and wash me boots after a ramble.
Let’s not mention the risks associated with walking through recently sprayed fields.
Townies are right, the countryside is a dangerous place, farmers should show a bit more consideration for the rest of us on our day out….just like they do on “ Countryfile”

I don't mind them, apart from agre chemical spraying.

 

[Cootmeurer]

The tract of land behind our place is currently being developed into 1/4 acre lots with new homes. So far have had to put signs up as citiots think horses need petted (one of my daughters retired show horses is quite the biter)

Awaiting more new neighbors with multiple options in mind - anything from being a very good neighbor to moving the muck pile right to the fence and getting a dozen extra roosters and perhaps a few beehives to go with the existing menagerie

It does remind me of my younger years. New subdivision built directly downwind of a hog confinement system -
Then they started complaining about the smell. That farmer had been raising livestock for 40+ years in that location

 

[Dunwaters]

The tract of land behind our place is currently being developed into 1/4 acre lots with new homes. So far have had to put signs up as citiots think horses need petted (one of my daughters retired show horses is quite the biter)

Awaiting more new neighbors with multiple options in mind - anything from being a very good neighbor to moving the muck pile right to the fence and getting a dozen extra roosters and perhaps a few beehives to go with the existing menagerie

It does remind me of my younger years. New subdivision built directly downwind of a hog confinement system -
Then they started complaining about the smell. That farmer had been raising livestock for 40+ years in that location

Not the farmers fault, but you can’t continue to behave as if you’re not affecting the neighbours just because you’ve always done things this way when you clearly are causing problems for the whole neighbourhood.
Why should we tolerate the stench and flies associated with your intensive stock raising enterprise? It’s not my shite, they’re not my flies, I get nothing but aggravation from the enterprise. I also get no breaks, it goes on 24x7x365.
Damn right I’ll agitate to close down the hog farm.

 

[opticron1]

I believe the rural residents of France are having similar problems at the moment - one of the commonest being complaints about Cockerels crowing in the morning.....who knew!? Closely followed by complaints of ...err.....smells of the country and church bells......... sacre bleu ......as they might say!

 

[old keeper]

As an ex shift worker….getting the head down before or after work could be a bit of an issue, the hours farmers work and run heavy machinery could really grind my gears.
Then there was shite spreading over half the county, usually when there was no wind and the whole place stank for days.
I often had to hose the dogs down and wash me boots after a ramble.
Let’s not mention the risks associated with walking through recently sprayed fields.
Townies are right, the countryside is a dangerous place, farmers should show a bit more consideration for the rest of us on our day out….just like they do on “ Countryfile”

I'm assuming you have permission to walk through the farmer's fields; if so, you obviously know him. So why not ask him to delay his dung spreading till the wind's not blowing in your direction, and at the same time get him to let you know when he's spraying his fields. I'm sure he will be only too happy to cooperate.!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Dunwaters]

I'm assuming you have permission to walk through the farmer's fields; if so, you obviously know him. So why not ask him to delay his dung spreading till the wind's not blowing in your direction, and at the same time get him to let you know when he's spraying his fields. I'm sure he will be only too happy to cooperate.!!!!!!!!!!!

He doesn’t ask me when I’m working, I don’t ask him what he has planned and he doesn’t tell me.
I take the fields as I find them, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Its the price I pay for the privilege of living where we do.
Love it.

 

[Cootmeurer]

Not the farmers fault, but you can’t continue to behave as if you’re not affecting the neighbours just because you’ve always done things this way when you clearly are causing problems for the whole neighbourhood.
Why should we tolerate the stench and flies associated with your intensive stock raising enterprise? It’s not my shite, they’re not my flies, I get nothing but aggravation from the enterprise. I also get no breaks, it goes on 24x7x365.
Damn right I’ll agitate to close down the hog farm.

I disagree. They went into their new home purchase eyes wide open. There was due diligence and they failed to practice it.

On my first posting in the Air Force I saw something similar. A large airport, home to a full squadron of jet fighters. Built in the 50s, when the land was open and 5 miles away from the city.

Fast forward to the 1980s, at the literal end of a 9000 foot runway, with the necessary landing lights, a developer put in a cluster of houses. One individual in particular had his back porch built in direct line of sight (and flight) of the runway. He called and complained daily.

 

[Jackal8]

That was polite compared to what I’ve been served with- don’t spray the trees close to my house or I’ll drench them in herbicide, don’t fertilise the fields close to my villa or I’ll report you to the agricultural inspection and on and on. Everybody wants to live in the aesthetics of the countryside, rarely somebody understands what it all implies. Breathe….

 

[Tim.243]

 

[Dunwaters]

I disagree. They went into their new home purchase eyes wide open. There was due diligence and they failed to practice it.

Follow that viewpoint to its logical conclusion and we would still be keeping pigs, poultry and cattle in New York City.
Its been banned, because it was recognised that keeping livestock in urban areas negatively affected a lot of residents.
As the area morphs from rural to urban in character the urban residents will campaign for changes to zoning and land use, and they’ll get it. It may take a while, but they’ll get the change.

On my first posting in the Air Force I saw something similar. A large airport, home to a full squadron of jet fighters. Built in the 50s, when the land was open and 5 miles away from the city.

Fast forward to the 1980s, at the literal end of a 9000 foot runway, with the necessary landing lights, a developer put in a cluster of houses. One individual in particular had his back porch built in direct line of sight (and flight) of the runway. He called and complained daily.

That’s an awkward one, I would blame the authorities who approved housing developments within the 80 -120Db noise contour.
That area should be zoned for sterilisation or industrial development only. It’s also not usual to develop the area immediately under or adjacent to the arrival and departure paths for high density residential use.
We are far more cognisant of the environmental impact of developments like airports and pig farms now than we were in the 70’s - 80’s, thats one reason why we have zoning regulations.
In the 50’s no one cared, you could do what like, you could even get on an aircraft with a gun in your hand luggage and a knife in your pocket.
Try that now.

 

[Tim.243]

Follow that viewpoint to its logical conclusion and we would still be keeping pigs, poultry and cattle in New York City.
Its been banned, because it was recognised that keeping livestock in urban areas negatively affected a lot of residents.
As the area morphs from rural to urban in character the urban residents will campaign for changes to zoning and land use, and they’ll get it. It may take a while, but they’ll get the change.

That’s an awkward one, I would blame the authorities who approved housing developments within the 80 -120Db noise contour.
That area should be zoned for sterilisation or industrial development only. It’s also not usual to develop the area immediately under or adjacent to the arrival and departure paths for high density residential use.
We are far more cognisant of the environmental impact of developments like airports and pig farms now than we were in the 70’s - 80’s, thats one reason why we have zoning regulations.
In the 50’s no one cared, you could do what like, you could even get on an aircraft with a gun in your hand luggage and a knife in your pocket.
Try that now.

They stole 4 planes in the US and look what happened when the US security was dunking their doughnuts while on break.

 

[old keeper]

It's the same attitude as those who buy property near a clay shooting ground and then try to get it closed.

 

[old keeper]

I live in a village and have known the farmers there all their lives. The hours they work are ridiculous. Only this week, when the weather has allowed ploughing to be done following the rain, one of them started work at 7.30 am and finally got to bed at 3 am. this went on for three days! i wonder how many of the moaners work those sort of hours for an uncertain income?

 

[Dunwaters]

It's the same attitude as those who buy property near a clay shooting ground and then try to get it closed.

Following your logic, if I own the game shooting rights to an area of land, I can’t be stopped from doing what I always have despite the fact that the land now hosts an adventure park.
Development and changes of use change the character of the neighbourhood and may dictate that what was once acceptable is not now.