Farming feuds

deise toffee

I think most farmers have had trouble with neighbours over issues over the years.

We have been cursed with the worst bunch of neighbouring farmers over the years.I believe us to be reasonable people,fair and helpful,alas certain neighbours take the piss regarding never doing any fencing on their side,a list of other things which I don't want to list here.

I hate been on bad terms with people,but these bunch are impossible to reason with!!Thick as ****e.Anybody else have similar issues?

bob charles

I have a neighbor thats constantly informing on me, I really should spot waving, beeping the horn and flashing the lights at them pretending to be there friend as I dont think they appreciate it. Im too busy to give a crap about them and they are farmer and all, well theyre SFP claimants more like it

delaval

bob charles wrote: »

I have a neighbor thats constantly informing on me, I really should spot waving, beeping the horn and flashing the lights at them pretending to be there friend as I dont think they appreciate it. Im too busy to give a crap about them and they are farmer and all, well theyre SFP claimants more like it

Exact same here with one guy. He is always looking to get something to hold over us. Has reported us to Dept and council, I just pull up a chat him at every chance and I know it's driving him bulling!!!

freedominacup

delaval wrote: »

Exact same here with one guy. He is always looking to get something to hold over us. Has reported us to Dept and council, I just pull up a chat him at every chance and I know it's driving him bulling!!!

That works much better than looking for fight. He wants a row and you just won't give it to him but don't hesitate when the chance arises to report him.

delaval

freedominacup wrote: »

That works much better than looking for fight. He wants a row and you just won't give it to him but don't hesitate when the chance arises to report him.

I will never report him but have an ace up my sleeve. It's a long road yet

sea12

delaval wrote: »

I will never report him but have an ace up my sleeve. It's a long road yet

Have a prcik of a neighbour beside me too. I think there every where.

freedominacup

delaval wrote: »

I will never report him but have an ace up my sleeve. It's a long road yet

Well if it's an ace then it's probably worth holding on to.

bob charles

freedominacup wrote: »

That works much better than looking for fight. He wants a row and you just won't give it to him but don't hesitate when the chance arises to report him.

I would never report either, have a word if you have a problem, informing is the lowest of the low

freedominacup

bob charles wrote: »

I would never report either, have a word if you have a problem, informing is the lowest of the low

Sometimes to deal with a prick like that you have to climb down in the **** where he hangs out to deal with him. Needs must.

Markcheese

bob charles wrote: »

I would never report either, have a word if you have a problem, informing is the lowest of the low

Depends on what it is, if someone is putting everyone else's livelyhood at risk( disease , pollution ect ) report it quick ... If the're risking they're own( life and limb , finances ect ) let em on ,( till they get at you )

moy83

A feud is no harm at all , sure it keeps everyone on their toes . The father and his cousin didnt talk for about fifteen years over a bit of land . Last year at a funeral they started back talking I suppose because they are old now and land wont put them up or down .
But lo and behold there is 7 acres going up for sale near us now and I can see two cousins beginning to butt heads already over who deserves it more , they will end up going against each other at auction and probably fall out after if one of them manages to buy it .

grazeaway

Lucky enough we get on alright with the lads bouncing us. Related to some of them. In total we have 7 different farms bouncing us and we on fine with them all. 3 are rented out now so have had a few different tenants. One neighbour is a bit of an arsehole but sure they are everywhere, I can only imagine what they say about me.

Manoffeeling

bob charles wrote: »

informing is low

but forgery is lower

Mulumpy

My brother in law had a bitter twisted aul wan living beside him constantly ringing guards and council. She died a few months ago and only ten people turned up to her funeral

bob charles

Mulumpy wrote: »

My brother in law had a bitter twisted aul wan living beside him constantly ringing guards and council. She died a few months ago and only ten people turned up to her funeral

I bet your brother in law went to it to make sure the auld hag was dead. I would

Mulumpy

bob charles wrote: »

I bet your brother in law went to it to make sure the auld hag was dead. I would

Ya with a smile on his face

redzerologhlen

Bounding 22 different people here and pull away with all of them. Have had one or 2 small rows with one lad in particular and a few wouldn't be the best farmers or have the best fencing but we are all still talking. Nobody sneaking around reporting each other thank god. I'd be known for being a bit fiery anyway so maybe they are afraid to tackle me.

1chippy

I would like to say lifes too short; but i always find theres one arse beside every holding. they usually suffer from not enough to do syndrome.

pakalasa

Good neighbours are everything. Patience can be a virtue at times though.
Old people were gas for 'falling out' and not talking. A lot of it going back to the civil war. Heard a story of two brothers who would try to kill each other. Their mother would hide the shotgun whenever they were in the house together. Still, they'd attack anyone who said anything bad about the other brother.;)

Muckit

Manoffeeling wrote: »

but forgery is lower

You really need to build a bridge. Life's too short to be carrying that sh*t around

Conmaicne Mara

Have neighbour went to jail for cutting fences (needless to say he won't put up a bit of wire or a stake). Had neighbour (deceased) tried to drown stock. Have neighbours who will steal stock/anything else given the chance.

I'm surrounded and outnumbered but well armed (Joke@Gardai)

Username John

Muckit wrote: »

You really need to build a bridge. Life's too short to be carrying that sh*t around

+1

Won't do anyone any good holding onto it...

funny man

Can't beat a good row, just to make life interesting.

Manoffeeling

Muckit wrote: »

You really need to build a bridge. Life's too short to be carrying that sh*t around

I was responding to a comment that informing is the lowest and I just commented that forging is lower. I think it's a valid point.

Muckit

Manoffeeling wrote: »

I was responding to a comment that informing is the lowest and I just commented that forging is lower. I think it's a valid point.

Just let it go man. Put it behind you and move on.

bob charles

Muckit wrote: »

Just let it go man. Put it behind you and move on.

be very slow on forgetting history as its important In how we go about the future. My neighbor will be a c, till the day he dies. until then I will do everything in my power to annoy the hell out of him in simple childish ways

knotknowbody

bob charles wrote: »

be very slow on forgetting history as its important In how we go about the future. My neighbor will be a c, till the day he dies. until then I will do everything in my power to annoy the hell out of him in simple childish ways

Ah here, you shouldn't be annoying the poor man, that only generates bad feeling, I have a **** of a neighbour who has done some ****ty things to me and others, everyone knows what he is like, but I do be as nice as pie to him.

He is forever trying to get a row out of me but it will never happen, the nicer I am the more he tries and the more he tries the nicer I am, he's just dying for a bust up, it does be funny watching him trying to start a row and getting pissed of when it doesn't work.

kevthegaff

i have lads with horses breaking in, suckers breaking in. Last year bloody suckers broke in, got them into the holding yard one drove me ten yards with a kick. anyways nxt morning yer man gets them back and doesnt repair the fence. This seems a common occurence, couldnt be arsed falling out with them tho, im too cool for that!

John_Rambo

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Have neighbour went to jail for cutting fences (needless to say he won't put up a bit of wire or a stake). Had neighbour (deceased) tried to drown stock. Have neighbours who will steal stock/anything else given the chance.

Bloody hell. Would they steal your stuff?

jp6470

No feuds always wave,but most around here theres no good in at all.wouldnt help ya out and would love to see you in a jam or bankrupt.had few handlings with a shared lane.
And the townie blow ins, i wouldn't give time off day till. Seen them driving my cattle which got out, away on down the road,out closing there gates to protect there flowers and going back in house.hada phone for help.

braveheart1

I was bringing in the cows one evening along a rural country road. I had the road blocked at the entrance to the yard and was herding the cattle from a field about 30 metres away. My mother was herding the cows from the field and i was standing on the road guiding the cows down the hill towards the parlour. I also had a large traffic cone in the middle of the road. As cows were heading towards the gap I heard a car approaching. It was travelling fairly lively. I signalled for him to stop but he kept coming at speed. I thought this guy isint going to stop and moved out of the way. He swerved around the cone heading down the hill and had to stop because of the jeep. I waited for him to reverse.back up but nothing happened. I closed the gate , walked diwn the hill and approached the car. I kind of recognised him as a neighbour who had moved to the area.a number of years previous. I had never met the man before but knew he was a guard. I inquired why he failed to obey my direction to stop and asked him to reverse. He asked me to move the jeep i refused and there was a standoff. Eventually he reversed i opened the gate and let in the cows for milking. Nice neighbour? Was i right?

Floody Boreland

Good to see some court action even if the sentence is extremely lenient..

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/farmer-admits-to-spitting-at-his-grandnephews-over-land-dispute-29387449.html

quadboy

braveheart1 wrote: »

I was bringing in the cows one evening along a rural country road. I had the road blocked at the entrance to the yard and was herding the cattle from a field about 30 metres away. My mother was herding the cows from the field and i was standing on the road guiding the cows down the hill towards the parlour. I also had a large traffic cone in the middle of the road. As cows were heading towards the gap I heard a car approaching. It was travelling fairly lively. I signalled for him to stop but he kept coming at speed. I thought this guy isint going to stop and moved out of the way. He swerved around the cone heading down the hill and had to stop because of the jeep. I waited for him to reverse.back up but nothing happened. I closed the gate , walked diwn the hill and approached the car. I kind of recognised him as a neighbour who had moved to the area.a number of years previous. I had never met the man before but knew he was a guard. I inquired why he failed to obey my direction to stop and asked him to reverse. He asked me to move the jeep i refused and there was a standoff. Eventually he reversed i opened the gate and let in the cows for milking. Nice neighbour? Was i right?

Prick should have stopped seeing as your legally allowed direct traffic when moving animals on road.

Zoo4m8

Chap up the road got a phone call from a big mouth well off townie neighbour complaining about a cattle feeder spoiling his view, needless to say in half an hour the original feeder was quickly joined by four more..:)

Fermec

Are You Not Drawing Them on you Then? But I Suppose he would S##t down on you if You Gave in.

reilig

When I was a young buck, we had an elderly neighbour and his wife try to claim land that we were after buying. They were claiming squatters rights - even though everyone for miles around knew that they had just moved in for 2 years and cut grass off it after the owner died and it was in probate.

They came knocking and we told them to show us their paperwork. They spent several grand on solicitors letters from a number of different solicitors. They tried to bring it to court and no solicitor would take it on. They locked gates on us and we had to cut the locks off to get access. They left gates open and ran our cattle onto the road. As kids, they knew we were vulnerable and they would stop whenever they saw us alone and give out to us and threaten to beat us with a stick.

In the end, they fell out with every neighbour around them because of the way they treated us - as they got older, they needed extra help but nobody would go near them. They both ended up in a home and both died sad lonely lives. Up to the day they died, they believed in their own minds that we had stolen land off them by not allowing them to continue to squat on land that we had bought!

We have good neighbours now. Every one of them would go out of their way to help you if you needed it. We share machines with some, we help others with silage and vise versa. It;s how it should be.

mf240

Most if not all the farmers around here are sound. nothing other than the usual digs and gossip but all harmless.

Theres a couple of non farmers that are a bit awkward but I just tell them whatever crap that will smooth things over and then continue on about my business as usual.