Farmer has cut my mains supply pipe!!!

[DIYedboy]

Yeah, fair comment

 

[Nige F]

Best to bury it 6 foot under like this thread should be .Just ask the farmer if in all the generations of his who`ve leased the land .there has ever been a need to chisel plough/ bust the hardpan ...and if so go under that depth . Keep going . O wise Countryfile watchers, and give us all a laugh

 

[oilman]

You will never recover from the farmer because you would have to prove that it is your pipe in the first place and that he has been negligent in cutting it. As a tenant he can hardly be negligent in damaging a pipe that he could not have been aware existed.
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The second thing...get some legal advice

Incidentally, there are only two cottages on this mains supply. Also, the tenant farmer has been renting this field for generations....suffice to say and based on discussions with neighbours it was the farmer who ran the pipework under the watchful gaze of the landowner. In other words both landowner and farmer has their "eyes open" on this one.

However, I spoke with the landowner today and on further questioning he thinks that the pipework was laid about 50 years ago....he knows when it was laid and always has done cos he did it.

FT you should read the posts before posting