3OldPonies
Well-Known Member
OK, big rant coming up. Sorry in advance I just need to get this off my chest.
The field I rent has been sold. Fortunately I and the ponies are being allowed to stay.
But, the new owner is totally un-horsey and a total townie.
Yippee I thought, we're going to get new fencing, at last - it's needed replacing for years. Now the downside, this tw&t is insisting on barbed wire, ignoring the advice from me and my father. What on earth can I do to get plain wire at the least? The fencing contractor is no use, obviously he's just going to do what he gets paid for. Filthy little landlord couldn't even be ars*d to come back to the field after I'd stayed later to let the contractor in this morning to tell me what has been quoted for - I just overhead them saying (while I was de-ragworting his field) that it would be barbed as discussed. He just left me there mooching about in the pouring rain - not even the common courtesy to say it's OK we've finished you can lock up now. I'm thinking of telling him that if he goes ahead with barbed wire I would like an appendix to the rent agreement (yet to be sorted) stating that he will pay any vet costs incurred should one of the ponies be injured by any barbed wire fencing installed by him. (Sadly parts are already barbed fencing which I have had to electric fence off}. Do you think that might be a way to make him see sense? He didn't even know that as the landowner he has a duty to ensure my animals stay put as well as the duty that I am responsible for, or that ultimatley the ragwort is his problem not mine* - this is the type of person we are dealing with here.
*I'll deal with the ragwort - he's so numb nuts that yesterday when he came to sort some tree branches up he opened up all the internal gates at the same time and if I'd not been there the two potential laminitics (which I have tried to explain) would have ended up partying all over the really lush stuff coming through where we harrowed a couple of months ago.
I can see a whole load of hassle coming up so another question, what do you guys think of three month notice periods for each party? I'm inclined to like it that they would have to give me three months, but not sure that anywhere would stay available for that long without me needing to pay for both for the notice period to secure the new place. It's going to be really hard to find somewhere new around my area so I don't want to move, but early indications are that things are not going to run as smoothly as they used to (old landlord had horses themselves).
The field I rent has been sold. Fortunately I and the ponies are being allowed to stay.
But, the new owner is totally un-horsey and a total townie.
Yippee I thought, we're going to get new fencing, at last - it's needed replacing for years. Now the downside, this tw&t is insisting on barbed wire, ignoring the advice from me and my father. What on earth can I do to get plain wire at the least? The fencing contractor is no use, obviously he's just going to do what he gets paid for. Filthy little landlord couldn't even be ars*d to come back to the field after I'd stayed later to let the contractor in this morning to tell me what has been quoted for - I just overhead them saying (while I was de-ragworting his field) that it would be barbed as discussed. He just left me there mooching about in the pouring rain - not even the common courtesy to say it's OK we've finished you can lock up now. I'm thinking of telling him that if he goes ahead with barbed wire I would like an appendix to the rent agreement (yet to be sorted) stating that he will pay any vet costs incurred should one of the ponies be injured by any barbed wire fencing installed by him. (Sadly parts are already barbed fencing which I have had to electric fence off}. Do you think that might be a way to make him see sense? He didn't even know that as the landowner he has a duty to ensure my animals stay put as well as the duty that I am responsible for, or that ultimatley the ragwort is his problem not mine* - this is the type of person we are dealing with here.
*I'll deal with the ragwort - he's so numb nuts that yesterday when he came to sort some tree branches up he opened up all the internal gates at the same time and if I'd not been there the two potential laminitics (which I have tried to explain) would have ended up partying all over the really lush stuff coming through where we harrowed a couple of months ago.
I can see a whole load of hassle coming up so another question, what do you guys think of three month notice periods for each party? I'm inclined to like it that they would have to give me three months, but not sure that anywhere would stay available for that long without me needing to pay for both for the notice period to secure the new place. It's going to be really hard to find somewhere new around my area so I don't want to move, but early indications are that things are not going to run as smoothly as they used to (old landlord had horses themselves).