The JCB made its moves. Waiting for the John Deere to counter.

@hayleyburrows

4 ай бұрын

😂

The road wasn’t too much of a problem until KZread came along. All about ‘content’.

@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002

7 ай бұрын

… But here you are watching it

@sallywatton2580

7 ай бұрын

I agree

@richardbaxter2057

7 ай бұрын

@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002Indeed and that’s the point....No KZread, No Social Media, No Videos, No Crowds, No Disturbance, No Fannying Around and therefore No Problems.....You’re absolutely right, we’re here watching it all but if there wasn’t a KZread, or if KZread censored this content, then nobody would know about this Ford and none of this would have been going on...... .....Yes, I know that’s “sad” but it’s how it is.....

@TachyonDriver

7 ай бұрын

The road wasn't too much of a problem until people with low intelligence thought they could drive at speeds in excess of enough to create a small bow wave because they were on someone's KZread film.. Most of us have more common sense and know our vehicle's limitations.. 😉

@PandaJ

7 ай бұрын

​​​@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002so are you and I wondering why they are bothering? I await my KZread comment abuse...

Well I think this could turn out to be a competition who can break the barriers,,,, Next Up Mr Hews in one of His Tanks 🤣

@MrSongwriter2

7 ай бұрын

Nah it’s got to be Eddy Hall for entertainment value

It's just as well that the tractor dragged those slabs out because they were completely submerged; a car or van hitting those while they were submerged would have been a disaster,

@earthman6700

7 ай бұрын

I thought the tractor driver may have saved lives. The submerged concrete blocks were a catastrophe waiting to happen.

It’s like moving in next to a farm and then moaning about the smell. The Ford was there long before the residents.

@simonshotter8960

7 ай бұрын

Most of them were probably there before KZread videos encouraged people to drive like dickheads and loads of vloggers turning up thus encouraging even more people to drive like dickheads

@grasub1

7 ай бұрын

That is what people are all about.

@fanfeck2844

7 ай бұрын

Not sure what that got to do with all the dangerous drivers going through it

@markstanton2180

7 ай бұрын

It will stop the idiots writing off their cars, if common sense was in fashion it wouldn’t be needed.

@geek9642

7 ай бұрын

I think the issue was the idiots driving through at 80mph+ while kids stand in the river

I would have thought that permanently fixed "traffic calming" concrete barriers at both sides of the ford was the answer. Measure a HGV and tractor width , leave a foot either side, and allow traffic through VERY slowly. Just make it a "single lane entrance and exit", nobody would be able to approach it at great speed without risking pranging their car into the blocks .....

Instead of using the digger to mess about why not use it to dig a culvert to take the majority of the water and then put a metal grid over for the vehicles- it would surely reduce the depth of the ford substantially.

@Laser2120

7 ай бұрын

If you have watched any of the latest video's (before the storm) you can pretty much walk over it in wearing shoes and not get wet but its still shut. No one wants to live next to a busy road and the locals are clearly taking every advantage to make it less busy

@MrSongwriter2

7 ай бұрын

@@Laser2120not true it was hydrolocking cars way before any floods. You definitely can’t walk through the middle without getting your shoes wet. Yes on the pedestrian access but not in the Ford even in summer

@Laser2120

7 ай бұрын

@@MrSongwriter2 it hasn’t been hydrolocking cars for months because it’s been closed!! There’s literally a video of a person walking across it in their shoes 🤦‍♂️ They cleared the river out past the bridge although that may have changed now because of the recent storm the water didn’t look like it was flowing much

@user-mm9jq6xz8l

7 ай бұрын

A culvert can't lower the water level downstream.

@jimmeer

7 ай бұрын

@@user-mm9jq6xz8l No and it can't make candy floss either, but it can take the bulk of the water under the road at the ford

There has to be a good comedy film out of this ! ( I can hear Sid James laughing) 😂

Why is it whenever the council are doing work there is always a couple of guys in high Vis stood around doing nothing 😂 This whole rufford thing is a pantomime now . A simple chicane would have sorted this in the first place And it's non of the neighbours concern They moved in next to a ford so what do they expect

I bet the old gran gets through. She`s not stopping for nothing.

Speed ramps . . .gotta be doing 55mph minimum . . jump the water , land on the down ramp , traffic from Mill side get priority , nobody gets wet . . . . . sorted .

@TachyonDriver

7 ай бұрын

I like it, except most people including me, don't have the skillset tocontrol a car in mid air.😅 Oh, I can imagine all the wannabe rally drivers trashing their car's suspension and monocoque. Mind you at least they won't hydrolock the engine.. 😂 ( I'd reckon you need about 60 mph just to be on the safe side!)

You'd think a chicane would appease everyone, the road remains open but everyone has to slow down. How about a bit of common sense? No thanks, this is England.

He's not showing off at all...totally useless machine driver. If any of my machine drivers took that long to do anything, they'd be collecting their cards at the end of the day.

@gazza4230

7 ай бұрын

😂 I said the same 😂😂

@markh5433

7 ай бұрын

And me😳

Don't see what the problem is?? If people want to risk ruining their cars that's their business!! Typical council wanting to interfere because a few "do-gooders" think it's a health and safety risk probably. Council should spend the money on fixing genuine problems (pot holes ???)

@user-kc1tf7zm3b

7 ай бұрын

What a driver does on his own property with his car is his personal business. As you stated. However, all bets are off with public roads as the public is directly, or indirectly, paying a price with stupid drivers writing off their cars with risk of injury or death with stranded drivers, increased insurance premiums, risk to emergency personnel in rescuing drivers and environmental damage with cars stranded in the ford until the car is retrieved. As your lawyer will attest, you do not have an absolute right to use public roads at any time.

@BigBanana55

7 ай бұрын

@@user-kc1tf7zm3b Just like having a driving license is a privilege, not a right. Even though many believe driving/car ownership is some kind of human right.

@user-kc1tf7zm3b

7 ай бұрын

@@BigBanana55 Driving is a right? Driver’s licence test, medical reviews when the driver has conditions or is older, car purchase price, car inspection, registration, insurance, petrol, general maintenance and repairs. Sounds like a very expensive privilege to me. As when a driver does not meet any of these requirements or fails to pays any of these costs, the ability to drive is one way or another, promptly taken away.

@KevinD_33x150

7 ай бұрын

​​​@@user-kc1tf7zm3bAnyone can own a motor vehicle & all that comes with it. That would be a right. Not everyone can (or should) have a driver's licence. That is a privilege. They aren't one & the same. Thankfully!

@user-kc1tf7zm3b

7 ай бұрын

@@KevinD_33x150 No, not everyone can own a motor vehicle. A judge can prohibit an offender from owning a vehicle. A child cannot obviously own and register their own vehicle. Owning a vehicle and holding a driver’s licence are both privileges.

Love rufford. And all the videos 🥰🥰

Yesterday a YT vid of tractor and trailer driving through here and dragging the concrete across the river and out the other side...

could be wrong, but isn't deliberately blocking a public road illegal, whoever does it ?

@Northerner_Transport_Hub

7 ай бұрын

That's the thing the council is doing it because they thought it was an unsafe road

@ericchapman399

7 ай бұрын

@georgekalamarski5240 Now it is two Cull De Sacs and still are public roads. You can not remove stupid but you can restrict access to where people go to be stupid.

@christianweller4288

7 ай бұрын

Not if you have a road closure order.

@fanfeck2844

7 ай бұрын

No

@thegreat_I_am

7 ай бұрын

Why are they using an excavator to do a job that a telehandler could do in seconds?

Irony is it's people like yourself that have caused the closer. If I lived there I wouldnt want undesirables running round causing a nuisance either.

@ascgazz7347

7 ай бұрын

How can you spell nuisance, but not closure? Irony is also denigrating strangers IQ, while demonstrating difficulties with your own. 👍🏻 (Like most of your other comments)

@ascgazz7347

7 ай бұрын

It’s also funny how much ‘education’ you dish out to the masses, while only accruing one subscriber in eleven years. People just aren’t interested mate.

Looks illegal to me ! And submerged ones just down right dangerous !

It would be nice to think a bridge and deepening the ford. However, the bridge would be unsightly to the hotel. And deepening just the ford and a bit either side, would do little for overall drainage. Water will find its over level. Plus local farmer/s would want a sizeable wad for the land they’d initially lose/sell.

How is the solution not to just put a 360 cam above the ford to catch people not listening to road close sign and let the farmers be has they have being crossing for generations i bet!

wasn’t too much of a problem until KZread came along...maybe we all should go round to there's............😣😣😣😣

Bye bye entertainment. What a shame that they closed down this road. Such a unique thing in the western world and of course they have to mess it up.

@midlifecrisis101x

4 ай бұрын

Don’t worry, plenty more content in the channel and some amazing road trips and motoring content coming up 😎

C'mon local farmer, get the road open again - tis the flood season after all, and we want to see content

just put up plenty of warning signs about the deep water, If motorists ignore them that's on them...

So how are they going to get a large vehicle or tractor around that

Typical of petty jobsworths always wanting to spoil people’s fun! Wait until someone hits the concrete barriers and sues the council!

Culvert pipes and seal the road

that'll be dark o'clock a night and the local farmer that wants to use this road when he needs to and not when someone tells him when he can, be coming along with his 'forks', be picking them there concrete blocks up and dumping them somewhere this lot cant get to them.

@fanfeck2844

7 ай бұрын

And who do you think will be paying for new blocks

@franticstorm7411

7 ай бұрын

@@fanfeck2844 why ask me? Ask the farmer!

Anyone who has had any issues in the ford can now sue the Highways for damages caused by hidden lumps of concrete placed in the roadway. Would have built a bridge in the time it took him to move three bits of concrete. Just put up a sign that says list of cars that cannot pass... BMW

I never really saw a problem in the first place lol ... love the drive throughs.

HGVs can be very long and so can agri tractors towing trailers. If the blocks were far enough apart to allow passage of either. Effectively the blocks would be making boy-racer chicanes. That JCB is very clean. You don’t suppose he got there early and was playing around in a nearby body of water.

can you show the rest of the work? or did you only film up till the missing block

its like something they would do in Edinburgh, making the rules up as they go along. and a fire engine gains access where ?

they should keep Rufford ford open especially to all the farm traffic as proven why the road block was Brocken in the first place they should implement traffic calming areas to slow the traffic but not close it permanently

I was expecting some giant haystacks

Why don’t they just bridge the darn thing?

As far as i'm aware local councils needs to apply a Temporary Traffic Regulation order (TRRO) to legalise a public road closure unless its due to emergency repairs? And even then they need to allow 24/7 access to affected properties incase emergency services are needed to attend.

so that is why the John Deere tractor got stuck, lol

@TachyonDriver

7 ай бұрын

... except it didn't 😉 it only paused for thought. Also, the JD shifted two blocks at once, that little JCB could barely manage one at a time 😂

If I lived there I would probably want it close as well. I couldn't imagine all the noise and disturbance. The sensible solution would be to do some sort of speedbump so that people can still get through but there wouldn't be the speed. A bridge is probably too expensive and would annoy the wedding venue, closing it permanently clearly isn't an option either

@garnet4846

7 ай бұрын

You'd move in next to a dump and complain about the smell.

@Rumouruk

7 ай бұрын

@@garnet4846 Bit of a silly reply! For a start, "dumps" are not allowed near housing! But more to the point, most of the people that live close to the ford have been there years, long before idiots with no consideration for others came along! Yes it is fun to watch, but speeding is not acceptable, especially where there are people standing around.

@garnet4846

7 ай бұрын

@@Rumouruk dumps aren't allowed near housing? What a stupid thing to type out. Define NEAR, you really think there aren't dumps that people can't smell from their house? I'm pretty sure that waterway existed there before any pearl clutching idiots. Nice try.

@secondchance6603

7 ай бұрын

@@Rumouruk 'Yes it is fun to watch, but speeding is not acceptable, especially where there are people standing around.' Call the police and if they don't do anything about it blame them.

I went through this when I was 18-19 in my escort van and that was 1994-95.

@user-mm9jq6xz8l

7 ай бұрын

I drove through a flood in my Mini, about 1972, It was only 6 inches deep but stopped just after because the Mini had an electric fuel pump on the rear subframe that had got waterlogged. Dries it and continued rejoicing that it hadn't stopped in the flood.

@cedriclynch

7 ай бұрын

​@@user-mm9jq6xz8lThe fuel pump probably did stop in the flood. The carburettor bowl holds enough petrol for another minute of running.

There is couse for action there.a breach of acts of union to start. Then a breach of more primary legislation and rules of procedure. Inta-alia

We get this on the canal all the time, Noddy housing estates popping up everywhere,then signs saying 'no engine's running area'but this is how alot of poor boaties get there power,we here over 200 year's

The answer is easy. Fine those who get stuck. Long and short of it. If you Hydrolock.. Your insurance should be void and repairs on your own head. I mean you get fined for speeding and general Hoon behaviour Hydrolocking at a Ford should be no different.

Why don’t they raise the road and put some water culverts beneath it?

What's so difficult about building an elevated arch-shaped passage over the body of water?

Simple gated system would be sufficient

Yes it is a public road maintained by the council who can close it..

People power will win over the establishment all ways.

them concrete stop blocks are about 1.5 / 2 ton

Imagine if some van or car had it's sump ripped off by those blocks under water and the oil etc dumped into the river.....

i hope they did a locate

Surely a big sign stating the water level & the danger of driving through it would be fsr simpler !! If you drive yourvehicle through it, its your fault, and expensive.

The public shouldn't have any say in the matter if its a public road the only people that can close the road permanently are the local council.

It seems like a military surplus, two part folding bridge would do the trick.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

7 ай бұрын

Probably gone to Ukraine

So what are they planning to do then because that is a quicker way to by pass everything in the erea

If I lived on that council estate , I think I would complain. NIMBY,s

If only there was an idiot with a tractor to drag the barriers through the water.

Haven’t they blocked access to one of the residents driveway?

As an experienced Digger driver, I can vouch that that driver is crap and not fit to drive a nail

Where did you get the operator for digger old timers are us lol

@childofthe60s100

7 ай бұрын

???????????????????????????????????????????????// Do you speak English?

Wozu diese schweren Betonböcke?? Eine Abschrankung reicht doch völlig aus!!

The tractordriver is not very experienced….😂😂

Why closing? That was a cash cow for car repair shops, so instead of meh meh all the noise bla bla - open a shop at the Mill

There are ford's like this all around the country and they operate without any issues, why? I'll tell you why, Because they haven't the social media attention this ford has. The people with cameras are the cause of all the issues here, they made it famous they put it in the spotlight the drivers act for the cameras. The people with the cameras caused all this! Want your ford back? Stop filming it !!!

@TomSunderland

7 ай бұрын

That’s what the idiots come up with to say

@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002

7 ай бұрын

You blame people for filming it, And yet here you are watching it

@AK.2425

7 ай бұрын

@@EATSLEEPDRIVE2002it’s not the filming it’s the idiots that the filming attracted.

As Council Tax paying Neighbours want the road closed, and the blocks plus signage is there to stop people who should have more sense and not try to drive through deep water and then having to rely on maybe emergency services who are better deployed helping genuine sensible people to get them out of trouble, conclusion sod the ruddy motorist.🧐

Stupid is as stupid does. Fording a river can be done, at the correct speed in an appropriate vehicle (ie not at speed in yer average car…)

Could you not just make a chicane with those blocks to slow traffic, but leave access.

Sad to see it closed again. Surely putting in measures to reduce speed is the best option to reopen this? A couple of speed bumps either side?

Fix the problem. Dig a drainage channel or dredge the river!

Some body needs to get a grip on that before there's BIG trouble, because at the moment it's typical Council C***ery

The muppet talking about "PUBLIC ROAD" is just upset he is losing his youtube video income.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

7 ай бұрын

They were ghouls I've stopped people from crossing a ford and flooded road having hydrolocked my car in high water it's about what kind of person you are really

Speed bumps each side = problem solved

It would be a better idea for that JCB to take the concrete away and put it somewhere that actually needs it... such as the Hemsby sea defenses (or lack of)... I know what I'd be doing if I had access to a different JCB (with the same picking up mechanisms)... Open the road again!!!

This "solution" is a little absurd. Why not use gates? When the water level is above a certain (realistic) level, the gates are shut. When the level drops, the gates are open. A much simpler solution, as used around the world, far better than knee-jerking with concrete blocks.

@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH

5 ай бұрын

Why all this fuss over what is a mere puddle compared to the likes of Lindersfarm & Mersea island which are far more deadly & dangerous as they are TIDAL & are MILES across & have claimed lives & vehicles yet no measures have been put in place to prevent acess when it is flooded at these deadly locations.The best & simplest solution for Rufford is to raise the level of the roadway via a " Ford bridge" so the river can flow underneath the roadway so only extreme high waters would flood over the bridge & then would only be a few inches deep if they got their calculations right. This has been done a many other ford locations in the UK so why not here? those who are trying to close it down should move their efforts to Lindersfarm & The Strood which are far more deadly & dangerous to vehicles & people as action is Needed at these deadly locations to BAN VEHICLES & PEOPLE COMPLETELY when the water covers ANY part of the causeway which like Rufford is full of videos on youtube of idiots crossing in vehicles in what are DEADLY TIDAL WATERS.By comparison Rufford is Non Tidal & is not considered Dangerous to people &vehicles as it is only a few yards across & no one has ever lost their life here.

@KevinD_33x150

5 ай бұрын

@@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH That would be a permanent solution to a temporary problem, but worthwhile. If nothing else, it would stop the knee jerking with concrete blocks. As you'd said, time & efforts would be better spent sorting much more dangerous locations. I'm not familiar with Lindersfarm, Mersea Island & The Stroud, as I'm in Australia. I am, however, very familiar with similar issues here, with Muppets trying it on when it's flooded & the equally ridiculous filming for "likes" on social media. You've given me a few things to look up. 👍 Happy New Year.

Why no permanent bridge over permanent water ? Certainly council can pull this up. Maybe 40 years ago this was fine amount of water less then todays more rain or flash floods now.

@nope.0.

7 ай бұрын

Takes years to get a bridge built. Councils don't have bridge money. A footbridge over the bypass near me, they had to bid for the funding just to do the survey to bid for the actual bridge.

@user-mm9jq6xz8l

7 ай бұрын

The bridge would have to be significantly higher than the current footbridge, the water was higher than that recently. That's a significant bridge and significant money for a very minor road.

local garage is not happy

let them build a bridge over the water there for cars so that no one drowns there

Why do they want it closed.?

@PJ-om2wq

7 ай бұрын

It sounds like the people who actually live there want it closed. They are probably sick of the publicity, crowds of people probably parking all over the place, noise etc etc

@gustavgans7794

7 ай бұрын

@julianchamber...too much idiots pollute the river with gasolin and oil !?

Maybe they should move.....

😂

Why should the people that live there be allowed to dictate what happens to it ? Its a "Public" road as you say and not private. We have the same with motorbikes in areas where people moan and even throw blocks on the road well the answer is move ! if you dont like the area get out.

Get the thing open, Clown Country.

open the road no reason to close it now

I can't count how many times I drove through this ford in the 80's and 90's..whats the effing problem

Eso esta bien que pongan una barrera contra tontos

Council worker a bunch of amuters

I wonder if they have done this legally? Looking forward to the compensation claims............

@roykirby5494

7 ай бұрын

Yes it has been legally closed.

What's going on are they close off the road for good ????

@roykirby5494

7 ай бұрын

The road at Rufford Ford has been officially closed to motor vehicles since December 2022

@childofthe60s100

7 ай бұрын

Unintelligible comment??????????????????????

Newby operator

typical clowncil

Yes but we all no it's to do with the way cars are speeding thou the water sp u can get it on camara if u don't film maybe it can be open again so stop filming

There was never any good reason to close the ford. To my knowledge no one has ever been hit by a car; so safety isn't a problem. M6 is much more dangerous, do the wankers want to close that down?

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

7 ай бұрын

Vehicles breaking down and having to pulled out and driving through to splash is a public nuisance

Staged events. I have never met a farmer I trusted. They are all from lineages that were gifted free land. They all have to play ball.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

7 ай бұрын

Landowners for England and Wales for sure

@GMT439

7 ай бұрын

@@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 In all Nations.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044

7 ай бұрын

@@GMT439 for England and Wales the Norman conquest of 1066 established a new clique of landowners. All land ownership is ultimately because someone declined to stake their claim to it. The invention of agriculture had a lot to do with it

I mean he could've just scooped up all the water with his bucket!! 🤷😝🤣

It is not surprising that it has been closed. Lots of brain dead 4x4 drivers acting up for the cameras, speeding through the water and on the roads. Stupid car drivers trying to get through when the water is high or thinking the car bodywork will protect the engine and air intakes. And even truck drivers, supposedly "professional" drivers! It is a shame that these idiots have got it closed. After around 1000 years! So before blaming the council, blame the idiots who have caused this, the drivers...

Surely the 🦧 in the tractor should be getting a bill/ticket for the works required? After all its pretty obvious it been closed for a while, i know hes a tractor driver, but you’d need to live under a big rock not to know.

@statementleaver8095

7 ай бұрын

Charge the Street and Wedding company. They want it closed

@dazt5831

7 ай бұрын

On that suggestion the council and highways agency should cover the costs of the farmer afterall he's the one losing out with extra fuel costs and more importantly time by taking a detour with his tractors i imagine that 8 months of extra costs to the farmer will be far higher than the cost of 3 men and a JCB for the day

@sharkeyist

7 ай бұрын

@@dazt5831 that deere was part of a potato harvesting crew, he will be there for a few days tops, zero fucks given. Its the scurge of contract growing and the hole ag is in. Farmer has made good money doing bugger all on ground that used to feed animals and people locally, now being over steralised and eroded away into the rivers/valley bottoms causing…. Yep flooding!! Why is the water in this and other ex rufford yters vids so rich in soil colour??

@user-mm9jq6xz8l

7 ай бұрын

@@dazt5831 Removing the barrier could be criminal damage. Prosecute him, and send the bill for reinstating the barrier and for the damage to the cars that drove through after the barrier was illegally removed.

Shouldn’t of been closed in the first place, put several speed cameras on that road, and little soon stop them speeding

@childofthe60s100

7 ай бұрын

"Shouldn't OF"??????????????? "little soon"??????????????????? Do you speak ANY English?

Stop paying the council tax