Tool to cut a 2" pipe close to a surface?

[Onoff]

If you cut that flush it'll leave a hole with a potentially sharp edge. You do not want a fox, small dog etc putting it's paw down it and breaking it's leg. It needs filling properly afterwards. 

[G and J]

If I had to remove a vertical metal pipe safely (from my own land, naturally!) leaving it safe but with the minimum work I’d probably cut it off PDQ with a battery angle grinder, a bit proud of the ground, thence cutting four vertical cuts, thence two more horizontal cuts at ground level to leave two opposing bits sticking up that I’d then quickly hammer over.  Might work best if the bits left standing for hammering were each a bit less than a quarter the circumference.  A quick ‘polish’ with a grind wheel on said grinder would help make it safer. 
 

Maybe have an older, hi vis clad, overweight chap with a clipboard standing by to prove that it’s official.  
 

Oh and close the nearby road for 3 days, that really will make it look official.   😉 
 

 

[Onoff]

You might find, if you could get a bfo pair of Stilsons on those uprights, they might twist right out. You could try with everything in place. All the fittings should loosen with an Allen key tapped with a hammer. Maybe a squirt of WD40 esque stuff on the grub screws a couple of days before. 

 

Maybe have a wheelchair bound or otherwise disabled friend there, a copy of your correspondence & the relevant paperwork showing the install is illegal / discriminatory and someone to film it. 

 

When it's nice and accessible to all the little scrotes on their dirt bikes and the police simply aren't interested, you can think "I did that!" 😂

 

[scottishjohn]

On 17/10/2024 at 20:07, Ferdinand said:

 

Yes.

However we are dealing with emotions, and things like evidence tend not to register.

From the point of view of the Council, putting a big stonking barrier "blocking off" a path is a cheap intervention that looks like something is being done. So it counts as a virtue signal. People shut in their own homes for want of nowhere to go don't count in that set of scales compared to a shouty voter.

Videos don't make a difference. This is from when I first tumbled to these issues in a way, and then I got radicalised when I couldn't wheel my mum to the Doctor a few years later.

One of the lessons I've learnt is to talk from the viewpoint of a disabled pedestrian.
 

 

I think you will find thats to stop electric cyclists etc 

 

 

they could be even more of a hazard if you are met by one on your excursion 

and lets not forget all the takeaway delvery bikes ,both electric and powered and young neds on those  little moto bikes 

 

  an openable gate with a self closing spring would be the correct solution 

 It could turn into a "rat run" and have 10times the traffic it has now 

Edited October 20 by scottishjohn

[Onoff]

I live next to a 33 hectare, ex golf course. Been taken over by a wildlife trust and they are "re-wilding". Various cattle breeds on there at the moment including longhorns. There's talk of iron age pigs in the future. It's been well fenced with galvanised kissing gates. I don't think you'd get a wheelchair or mobility scooter through them. Tbh, nor should it be a requirement. It could be very dangerous. Plus there are no real paths. You are allowed to walk over the area, with dogs on a lead. 

 

There's a few small timber fence sections based on telegraph pole diameter wooden posts. Hasn't stopped the lowlifes, often en mass turning up, breaking the fences down and tearing the place up on dirt bikes, quads and 4x4s. The police are generally simply not interested and or haven't the resources. A couple of them were rocking up and revving up next to the closest house. Just long enough to let the house owner phone the police. Then they'd race off before the police got there. In the village next to me kids race around on little 2-strokes with no number plates, helmets etc. often 2 or 3 up on the bike. They go to the shops etc then tear through the estate. Police presence? 😂

 

A mate has a footpath across his land. Caught two lads on dirt bikes and had words. They were most indignant at his attitude saying "But mate, they're electric!" 

 

 

Edited October 20 by Onoff

[SteamyTea]

24 minutes ago, Onoff said:

You are allowed to walk over the area, with dogs on a lead

I often read about ramblers/walkers getting killed by cows. Nearly always the 'victim' was a dog walker.

There was a case, in this week's news, of a woman that got attacked by a longhorn, no mention of a dog. Made a change.

 

As for electric bikes and scooters. Just yesterday, a teenage girl was wobbling down the middle of the street on an electric scooter. I pulled to the left, and then stopped. Stupid youth then scooted between me and the parked cars on my left.  I should not have left a gap.

 

As much as I dislike too much police enforcement (have lived in countries where it is a bit OTT), I really think that some things need to be enforced a bit more.

[Onoff]

1 hour ago, SteamyTea said:

As much as I dislike too much police enforcement (have lived in countries where it is a bit OTT), I really think that some things need to be enforced a bit more.

 

Yep, ignore the small stuff and it escalates. 

[scottishjohn]

32 minutes ago, Onoff said:

Yep, ignore the small stuff and it escalates. 

been saying that for 30 years 

who in thier mind would allow kids to throw petrol bombs at police  in NI

should have been shot dead  

and we would not have the problem now

 too much tolerance of bad behaviour 

same oges for all the  foregin rioters 

 

sure it would not be tolerated where they came from 

they just taking the piss  all the time ,then cliaming human rights violations 

simple change inthe law 

,which will never happen 

anything that happens to you AFTER you break the law is on you

how can it be right htat asomeone breaking can sue you for an unsafe roof ,o having glass on top of your boundary wallwhich caused them hurt 

should not have been on it in the first place 

Edited October 20 by scottishjohn

[Ferdinand]

 

7 hours ago, Onoff said:

I live next to a 33 hectare, ex golf course. Been taken over by a wildlife trust and they are "re-wilding". Various cattle breeds on there at the moment including longhorns. There's talk of iron age pigs in the future. It's been well fenced with galvanised kissing gates. I don't think you'd get a wheelchair or mobility scooter through them. Tbh, nor should it be a requirement. It could be very dangerous. Plus there are no real paths. You are allowed to walk over the area, with dogs on a lead.

(I'll give a fuller reply to @scottishjohn on the motorcycle thing.)

On this, I'm quite uncompromising - 30-50 years of excuses for discrimination is too much, and cannot be tolerated. I'm interested if there are believed to be good reasons - basically, what are the fairy stories they have told themselves?

On this one, in this situation kissing gates are not lawful. You may not discriminate against disabled or elderly people in provision of a service including eg a public park or nature reserve. That's the legal duty of the service provider, and the organisation discriminating can be sued under the Equality Act 2010.

I'm not clear where the "dangerous" idea comes from. Do you mean dangerous to let a person on a mobility scooter or a wheelchair into a nature reserve, or if the cattle somehow escape, or are the cattle inherently dangerous? I don't see why it should be dangerous for a person using a wheelchair, but safe for a pensioner walking into the reserve, or a person walking their pooch. It's horribly backward thinking, left over perhaps from the 1970s..

The legal requirement is couched in terms of "making reasonable adjustments", and since here an appropriate cattle grid can be installed (as used in the meadows in Cambridge City Centre, for example) there is no lawful excuse for excluding pedestrians using mobility aids.

A decision about entering the nature reserve is their decision to make, not anybody else's wanting to impose their opinions.

If the cattle breeds chosen to be put in an area accessible to the public are a danger to the public, then they need to change their breed, or perhaps have sheep instead.

A further question is whether the nature reserve should be required to provide accessible routes. If they are a charity it is likely to be part of their constitution to do so. If it is there to "benefit the public" or similar, it is no more legal than if they chose to exclude women, or men, or black people. They would not do that - why do they do this?

F

[Ferdinand]

On 17/10/2024 at 17:56, Mr Punter said:

 

Sometimes they have the opposite effect as miscreants on electric motorbikes can evade police cars by zigzagging through the barriers.

The answer to that one is appropriate regulation, and policing.

There are places in the UK this stuff is addressed by the police force whilst mine pretends they don't have the powers they need. And we have a completely open supply of e-mopeds bought under "for use on private land*. There was a  case in Cardiff last year where an idiot parent gave their 16 year old iirc teenager a Sur-Ron, and he killed himself and  a 15 year old friend on it running at 40mph or so with no training or safety gear.

This is about intelligence lead policing, a properly regulated supply chain for e-mopeds sold as "e-bikes", and properly funded police on motorbikes and e-mopeds themselves, rather than numbers slashed and many of the experienced officers gone as happened in 2010-2017.

It can be done.