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Private land and horses

  • 30-05-2018 3:09pm
    #1
    FaithNoMore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭


    Neighbours horses keep rubbing and scratching against the wooden electric pole in their field. The wires come to our house and theirs. If the two wires touch and blow the transformer, is the neighbour or their landlord responsible for the repairs? Will I be partly responsible?!


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  • #2
    bertsmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 539 ✭✭✭bertsmom


    Are you actually serious?


  • #3
    FaithNoMore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭FaithNoMore


    bertsmom wrote: »
    Are you actually serious?

    Unfortunately, yes... The same thing apparently happened two years ago a few miles away. I overheard two farmers were talking about it... Probably Chinese Whispers... Just curious!
    BTW, the pole wasn't shaking, swaying or squeaking when the three fully grown horses first started scratching their arse on it about 6 weeks ago when they were put in the field, but it is now. The neighbours have the three of them dressed in those fitted horse blankets that go right up the necks and over the tails because "they're black horses, the sun makes them too hot"!!!! They've been driven mad with itching this past week cos of it...


  • #4
    fits
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    It sounds like they are wearing fly rugs to help prevent them scratching. Nothing to do with them being black.


  • #5
    pleas advice
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    Is it not cos they are black?


  • #6
    DBB
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    It's possible they have sweet itch, caused by midge bites. If they're wearing full-body rugs, and they're scratching, and it's summer, there's a fair chance this is what it is.
    As for the ESB pole... I'd be contacting ESB. Let them deal with it. They take reports of dodgy infrastructure very seriously, in fairness to them.


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  • #7
    sillysmiles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭sillysmiles


    FaithNoMore wrote: »
    Neighbours horses keep rubbing and scratching against the wooden electric pole in their field. The wires come to our house and theirs. If the two wires touch and blow the transformer, is the neighbour or their landlord responsible for the repairs? Will I be partly responsible?!




    It's not your land or your horses so I'm not sure how you could be in the slightest bit responsible, so I wouldn't worry about it. At the distance the wires are apart on the pole I think they'd have to knock the pole for them to touch.


  • #8
    FaithNoMore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭FaithNoMore


    fits wrote: »
    It sounds like they are wearing fly rugs to help prevent them scratching. Nothing to do with them being black.

    If that's what the rugs are for, they're not working much, poor things. The owner said its because they are black, that's why they've the rugs on... No shelter for them either, but that's besides the point...


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