Landowner chasing us for excessive reimbursement

goonarmy

fivetide wrote: »

And how much postcrete does he need?

A bag per post but if hes gonna muck away a large volume of contam its gonna be well over a bag of sand;)

fivetide

goonarmy wrote: »

A bag per post but if hes gonna muck away a large volume of contam its gonna be well over a bag of sand;)

English. Do you speak it?

:rotfl:

vaio

goonarmy wrote: »

So whats that in m cubed?

the same

Meanwhile, back in the real world, a cubic metre of earth weighs about 1500 kg, tipping rates for land fill are about £100 a ton so that's 900 x 1.5 x 100 = £135,000 and that's before you dig it out, transport it and buy in new stuff to replace it.

Suddenly £1k looks like a bargain

What will actually have happened is the farmer just hammered a couple of new posts into the ground (or even reused the old ones) and the £1k is a figure pulled out of the air intended to teach you not to go crashing into fields again

goonarmy

fivetide wrote: »

English. Do you speak it?

:rotfl:

Nope, just cockney so "google me biatch":p

goonarmy

vaio wrote: »

the same

Meanwhile, back in the real world, a cubic metre of earth weighs about 1500 kg, tipping rates for land fill are about £100 a ton so that's 900 x 1.5 x 100 = £135,000 and that's before you dig it out, transport it and buy in new stuff to replace it.

Suddenly £1k looks like a bargain

What will actually have happened is the farmer just hammered a couple of new posts into the ground (or even reused the old ones) and the £1k is a figure pulled out of the air intended to teach you not to go crashing into fields again

Thats a large scale excavation and far and away too much for a small contam issue from one vehicle. Id guess if any went away you could fill a 6yard skip.

neil_msd

Cost of lost crops to farmer if ordinairy wheat or barley approx 20 pence per square meter ( 10 tonnes yield/hectare sold at £200/tonne - both very generous figures. Farmer may not be trying to stiff you as once an insurance company gets involved all costs seem to spiral out of control

Herzlos

vaio wrote: »

the same

Meanwhile, back in the real world, a cubic metre of earth weighs about 1500 kg, tipping rates for land fill are about £100 a ton so that's 900 x 1.5 x 100 = £135,000 and that's before you dig it out, transport it and buy in new stuff to replace it.

Suddenly £1k looks like a bargain

What will actually have happened is the farmer just hammered a couple of new posts into the ground (or even reused the old ones) and the £1k is a figure pulled out of the air intended to teach you not to go crashing into fields again

I doubt a farmer would landfill it commercially, most would use it to fill in elsewhere that's not being used for crops i.e. under where they keep the plant. Or if it's no use to them they'll probably know someone that needs the filling material.

Even without the cost of dumping it, you're talking about digging and shifting 1500 tons of soil, which would be at least 50 full trailers and probably weeks of work.

OddballJamie

vaio wrote: »

the same

Meanwhile, back in the real world, a cubic metre of earth weighs about 1500 kg, tipping rates for land fill are about £100 a ton so that's 900 x 1.5 x 100 = £135,000 and that's before you dig it out, transport it and buy in new stuff to replace it.

Suddenly £1k looks like a bargain

What will actually have happened is the farmer just hammered a couple of new posts into the ground (or even reused the old ones) and the £1k is a figure pulled out of the air intended to teach you not to go crashing into fields again

£135,000 :eek:

Even Kwikfit can fit four winter tyres for less than that. :rotfl:

Mr_Mink

vaio wrote: »

Anything useful like wheat, corn, potatoes, spaghetti etc have to be replanted every year

Spaghetti??? :rotfl:

spacey2012

Most just fence the area off, it is cheaper.
Or get it fixed before "the man" from the EA comes poking and notices it.
The other method is a ditch filled with water, tends to stop skidding cars quite effectively .