Well ive made a copper smile
 

Just coming home from work, (i live in a village in the country) and get flagged down by a car to slow down, ok-usually means theres a horse rider about-come round bend and.....
Theres SHEEP in the middle of the road!, no ones stopping to try and round them up/move them off the road so i pull over, chuck gloves etc on floor and go to call the police when i cop car turns up.
poor guy hadnt a clue what to do, so theres me, in my leathers, running up and down this road after these sheep, directing the officer where to stand etc.
Half an hour later and lots of amused car drivers we mananged to get them back in a field, needless to say said officer left with a grin on his face. :oops:
good job i live on farm lol.

I'll bet he was relieved you were there :lol:

he was bless him, couldnt stop thanking me! lol.

:D They're tricky to catch aren't they ?

I was marshalling at a car sprint event last year when a couple of sheep escaped from a nearby field and ran onto the track :lol:

There was nothing about how to deal with sheep in the BMMC handbook either :wink:

ValleyBoy has his own "special" technique :thumbsup:

I've heard that they are a bit more amenable if you put new wellies on and blow in their ear!! :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol:






....Or so a Welshman once told me........ :shock: :roll:

Re: Well ive made a copper smile
 

:shock:

Wopuldnt be surprised if those sheep dont 'find their way' out into the road again another evening soon :lol:

:wink:

You should be ashamed of yourself...A proud Forester taking sheep 'handling' advice from a Welshman :shock:

Another name for a lumberjack, isn't it? :wink:


"He's a lumberjack and he's okay......"

He puts on womens clothing and hangs around in bars. :shock:
He's a forester and hes ok.

Sheep?!?! Pah!

Imagine my supprise at lunch time after nipping over to the next town. Came back via the back roads, rounded a corner pretty fast, and saw some cows roaming across the road. Nothing unusual about that. So I pulled up & waited for them to pass.

The worrying thing was when a bull from the next field must of been feeling frisky, breaks the fence down & decides to charge flat out in the general direction of the cows. Me, on the SV, seperating the bull from a potential good time :shock:

Needless to say, I made sure I got the SV out of it's way quick sharpish, and left the farmers to deal with the consequential mahem that insued!

Well you've got polite coppers I have to say:

I was going down to a Wildlife Trust reserve to carry out some coppicing for them when I found a line of cars stopped infront. A bloke told me that I'd have to turn round as there was a huge fallen limb blocking the road...
me + chainsaw = solution

All the car drivers were very thankful, but the coppers were moaning about having to life these branches out of the way (I say branches - more twigs, muggins here did the hard work), then they got in their car and sodded off!!

Yes, you def have a better class of copper than here in Essex!!!

Ah, the amount of times I've thought "I wish I had a chainsaw" :D

I made a copper smile today too.

Gave him £1450! I got a yellow SV in return :D

Matt

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Sounds like a country and western song!

**strums some chords out to the words**

Matt

Thats a nice country tale. We dont have animals on the road around here. They are mainly in the cars. Went for a ride on Thursday came around a big sweeping corner and there was half a bottle of wine on my lane. Jagged side up. Did a Uey and stopped to pick it up. Ran about and deodged some more animals in the process as the weaved and braked to avoid the shards.