Arrrrr bloody fly tippers!

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While I’ve been out of the saddle I decided to get back into one at least… of the push rod variety! :D

Because it was a nice day on Saturday I thought I’d try and be a bit green, save some fuel and pennies, burn some calories off and catch some raise, so I’d biked up to the livery yard and had for most of it a pleasant 16 mile round trip.

BTW do they make Heather Mofftt seat savers for bicycle seats? :eek: … I think they need to!!

Anyway once I got there I thought I’d do something useful, bit of poo picking, but then realised I had my nice trainers on, so it took me twice as long because I couldn’t use my foot to scrape it on to the shovel.:rolleyes:

There is a point to this post honest, on my way back, I decided to take the scenic route rather than the main roads.

What used to be many many years ago an old cart track/bridle way (but then they closed it off as an ‘official bridle way’ as they kept getting dear poachers etc) now the track is just a public footbath/cycle path as well as farming access to fields but it is numbered route and is part of the Trans Pennine Way. If the gates are open you can still ride down on your horse, cuts all the traffic out and you have a lovely long quiet peaceful ride in the countryside. My YO told me a while ago that the gates had been open for a while now (he’s a farm contractor) which probably explained why I was horrified to discover this!:mad:

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I’d already passed 3 piles that were behind me before I took the photo of the rest of the piles you can see and in the distance!, either a builder or travellers have driven down the track and load by load fly tipped all this building rubble and junk, there was tiles, huge lumps of concrete, bags, breeze blocks, bricks, parts of walls, glass, wood…all sorts just dumped right in the middle and right over the track, I had to go into the field to get round it all, just so happens there is a bit of set aside next to the track.

How could someone do this? have they no respect, have they no feelings or sense of guilt what so ever?

I was sick to the stomach seeing this, who will be responsible for shifting it all? I feel really sorry for the farmers too, it's people like this that spoil it for others because now the gates will be shut all the time (usually leave open for the tractors).

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Beggars belief doesn't it?!!
Have you (can you) reported it to anyone - council etc?
And would it make any difference?
 
Makes me so mad :mad::mad::mad:

We get it quite a bit on the byway we have to hack down to get anywhere, it was no fun coming round the corner on my spooky horse and coming face to face with a couple of hundred tyres, which was the latest thing :rolleyes:
 
Flicker said:
Beggars belief doesn't it?!!
Have you (can you) reported it to anyone - council etc?
And would it make any difference?
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I've not reported although I could ring but I can only presume it's already been reported as when I told my dad, he told me it's been there since last Wednesday, farmers are knocking about around there all the time so it's very likely that it's hopefully being dealt with, not seen my YO since Saturday so if I see him tonight I'll ask him as he'll know what is going on.

At first I thought perhaps it could be rubble to fill in the odd rut on the track but the track is actually very flat and is quite acceptable ground for even driving a car up so no holes or big dips/ruts, in the past when there has been times if the farmers have need to fill the odd dip it's been filled with very small stone/rubble which gets squashed down very easily by the tractors, certainly nothing like that! and I can't see why they would dump it like that in piles all the way up the track and block the track.
 
Disgusting. Makes my blood boil.
My parents have been victims of flytipping on their farm. When it's dumped on private property it's usually up to the land owner to deal with it. What we can't get our head around, is why they bother to dump it on my parents land, when there there is a council recycling centre about half a mile from my parents farm!!!
We did once get someone prosecuted. The idiots had left bags of rubbish which included envelopes with their names and address on!
 
Misinterpreted said:
Disgusting. Makes my blood boil.
My parents have been victims of flytipping on their farm. When it's dumped on private property it's usually up to the land owner to deal with it. What's worse is there is a council recycling centre about half a mile from my parents farm!!!
We did once get someone prosecuted. The idiots had left bags of rubbish which included envelopes with their names and address on!
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Well I did have a route about to see if I could find anything that could lead to who it might be (if it was a cowboy builder etc), but it was a bit iffy standing on it all to be fair as I nearly lost my foot at once point.
 
I hate fly tipping, even if I am on a bike. I find that I feel the bike is going to spook at it :o

Near a friends house there is a lot of accidents, and cars end up in their hedge/field and the police won't move them as its on private property. His solution is to get his tractor and move them back onto the verge ;)
 
This kind of thing drives me nuts.

The reason it happens is simple; if it's commercial waste, then there is a hefty charge for tipping and a limited number of places where you can tip. So, the cheap option is to go dump it on some unfortunates land, or around here, at the side of the road, usually in the passing places down little lanes.
 
SO annoying:mad: Some of the passing places round here are minging!

I remember doing some work on this once upon a time, and hearing about a magistrate being caught red handed on CCTV fly-tipping - it can be all sorts of people, all as bad as each other:mad: I don't know what makes people think it acceptable!
 
No garbage bags with what could be household waste there is there? Always a possibility that there are personal letters in there with addresses! We caught flytippers that way once. Oddly enough, after a visit from some locals they came and collected it all up again :D

Note, I am not advising that you rifle through garbage sacks you never know what sort of waste is in there, but if there was some paper sticking out....
 
We live in a road that ends as a footpath, and one day the favoured lay-by for flytipping had a car parked in it (there's a public park next to it). So the tipper van driver up-ended a load of turf and footings - obviously a builder starting a new job that Monday - and left it blocking the whole road. Took me 20 mins to clear enough to drive through in a 4 x 4 and the council turned up by then to clear it completely.
 
That's terrible! I had someone elses rubbish left by my bin a while ago, strange as I have only one neighbour and that's my inlaws!!!! Since then we've had stuff left on the verges and in the ditches. Why when recycling centre is about 2 miles from here?? To be fair I phoned the council and they have removed it.
 
I've since seen my YO and although he's not aware of it (he is going to find out) he thinks it could be the farmers that will break it down to improve the track for the spray machines as they have a machine to break it down.

So hopefully that's the case

...phew!
 
I caught a flytipper in action oneday whilst out walking my dogs, I challenged him, he gave me some back chat then jumped in his car and sped off.Not before I had his number!
The council secured a successful prosecution against him, he got £1,000 fine, lost his job as he now had a criminal record and I got a reward. I didn't know about the reward when I reported him and I would have done it for nothing anyway as fly tippers make my blood boil and he only had himself to blame for his loss.
Oz
 
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