Wedge to work but may need a wash

[KKson]

It wasn't freezing, the sky was clear so Wedge to work. However the local dirty bd farmers have caked the roads in inches of mud off their fields. The joys of the countryside. Wedge washing day tomorrow then.

[eesbad]

I work in the sticks and actually threw my car off the road and through a hedge after coming around a bend to a complete caking of wet mud all over the road! When the recovery truck came, there was another car a bit further up that had done the same. And then another a few days later and another the week after that! Grrr... This was a few years ago and I am always cautious on that bend now, but you get to a certain time of year and you will see cars through hedges etc. quite regularly.

Well done on the drive to work though!

[Skyedriver]

They do that around here too.
Farmers take no responsibility for the dangers they cause, it's bad enough for a car, how do you cope on a motorbike rounding a corner to see the road covered in two inches of slime and mud.

Working in the building trade every site needs guys cleaning wheels, wheel scrubbers, brushes up and down the road, but farmers simply don't give a st.

[Wedg1e]

Skyedriver said:

... how do you cope on a motorbike rounding a corner to see the road covered in two inches of slime and mud.

Ar53-nipping territory. We were out on a blast over the Yorkshire Dales a couple of years back and just before we got there Farmer Palmer had pulled-out of his gate in a tractor towing a slurry trailer, dripping and splattering everywhere. The two guys in front of me must have reactions of a cat and did a merry dance on Ducatis to try and avoid it but on my 330Kg tourer all I could do was roll off, pick a line and batter through the cack.
I recall some hand signals being used, and I don't think it was to greet the tractor driver gaily

[KKson]

Over 200 yards of thick slippy mud on a tight bend. Two cars in the hedge on the same patch of road this morning. Likewise I've been in the construction industry all my life and the local authorities would have a hissy fit if there was a trail of mud from a construction site but farmers get away without incurring a penny cost.

[adam quantrill]

I think it's because the farms were there before paved roads, previously there would have been dirt cart tracks. So the farmers have precedence I'm afraid.

[battered]

adam quantrill said:

I think it's because the farms were there before paved roads, previously there would have been dirt cart tracks. So the farmers have precedence I'm afraid.

Nonsense. Farmers are responsible to clean the road if they cover it in mud just as construction workers are. Precedence is neither here nor there. They get away with it because the local councillors know who votes for them and they tell the Highways officer to STFU when he complains.

[TR4man]

Around here in south Cheshire, the farmers seem to think that the limit of their responsibility is to put up a hand painted "mud on road" sign on a bit of old board.

Apart from the danger, the mess on the cars is so annoying.