Farmers about

[classic33]

🤪

Offer to sweep it up for them.
You'll be there long after the hedge cutter has given up for the day.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

A bit off slant i know but those conker casings from the horse chestnut tree you see on the road at this time of year always look like a puncture awaiting.
Anyone had a puncture from one of them?

 

[classic33]

Farmers are cutting the hedges leaving the road covered in hedge cuttings ,they never brush it up after themselves .How is this allowed.

Why is this in General Cycling?

 

[Biker man]

Why is this in General Cycling?

Work it out cyclist run over the cuttings and get punctures it's not rocket science.

 

[classic33]

Work it out cyclist run over the cuttings and get punctures it's not rocket science.

I've never been punctured by what's on the road!

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

How is this allowed.

It isn't in a formal sense. Such things are required to be tidied up.

I came across a couple of hedgecutter types using those reversed vacuum cleaner things blowing the hedge cuttings off the road into the gutter/verge a couple of years ago. I gave them a cheery thank you.

There is a bit of road near here which trucks use to take approved waste to landfill over a muddy field. They drag a lot of mud out onto the tarmac but being a responsible outfit they have a brush sweeper thing going up and down the road during the times they make a mess.

So some good practice out there but I fear it's rare.

 

[Biker man]

It isn't in a formal sense. Such things are required to be tidied up.

I came across a couple of hedgecutter types using those reversed vacuum cleaner things blowing the hedge cuttings off the road into the gutter/verge a couple of years ago. I gave them a cheery thank you.

There is a bit of road near here which trucks use to take approved waste to landfill over a muddy field. They drag a lot of mud out onto the tarmac but being a responsible outfit they have a brush sweeper thing going up and down the road during the times they make a mess.

So some good practice out there but I fear it's rare.

I agree with you.

 

[Biker man]

I've never been punctured by what's on the road!

Well good for you.

 

[winjim]

I'm alright, it's all dry stone walls round here.

 

[Bianchi boy]

i thought farmers had a legal obligation to clean up the highway when cutting hedges, and the council should enforce it if they fail to do so, they are a menace the way they drive around the country lanes with their illegal trailers in tow,

 

[Milzy]

Given that farmers are working all hours to keep us fed, I tend to cut them a little slack. Besides, running tubeless I don't have puncture issues with thorns (that is to say that the punctures still happen - they must do because I can see the witness marks on the tyres - but they seal themselves without me even knowing anything had happened).

Do you also cut them a little slack for all the spilled diesel on the roads?

 

[winjim]

J'accuse @mudsticks!

Actual footage of @mudsticks working hard to make the crops grow:

View: https://youtu.be/C5axST4hGMo

 

[Deleted User]

I've never been punctured by what's on the road!

How the fook did you ever get a puncture then?

 

[Deleted User]

i thought farmers had a legal obligation to clean up the highway when cutting hedges, and the council should enforce it if they fail to do so, they are a menace the way they drive around the country lanes with their illegal trailers in tow,

Just like cleaning all the mud they leave on the road when leaving a field, and no it's hardly an inconvenience to cyclists but I also ride a Motorcycle and it is a hazard then.

 

[alex_cycles]

How the fook did you ever get a puncture then?

To understand the answer, you need to take the post (and what it was a reply to) a bit more literally. If you do, it's actually quite amusing.