‘What is going on with England?' Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper victim of £7,000 tool theft as fans share their fury

Scottish Sun

30-07-2025

The powerful tool was nabbed on Tuesday night
TOOLED UP 'What is going on with England?' Clarkson's Farm star Kaleb Cooper victim of £7,000 tool theft as fans share their fury
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CLARKSON'S Farm star Kaleb Cooper was the victim of soaring tool theft after robbers nicked his £7,000 farm tool.
The farmer turned TV hero, 27, told fans his pricey post knocker, used for hammering in fences, had been stolen from Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, on Tuesday night.
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Clarkson's Farm star, Kaleb Cooper, 27, was the victim of soaring tool theft
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Robbers nicked his £7,000 farm tool on Tuesday night
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Another firm's £70k tractor was also taken with a burnt-out SUV found down the road
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Another firm's £70k John Deere tractor was also taken, with a burnt-out SUV car found down the road.
Cooper fumed on Instagram: 'My post knocker was stolen last night.
'As well as the John Deere tractor.
'Can we please make this as hot as possible!
'What is going on with England at the moment!'
Home & Country Fencing, the company whose tractor was also stolen, said on social media: 'Unfortunately, we have had one of our tractors and post knockers stolen overnight.
'There has been a silver 4 x 4 burnt out just down the road which is possibly related.'
Kaleb, who joined Sun columnist Jeremy, 65, as his farm hand on the Amazon Prime smash hit, is thought to have loaned his post knocker to a fencing company which was robbed.
The powerful tool uses a massive hydraulic hammer to drive fence posts into hard surfaces to keep them safe and stable.
Clarkson had bought the ProtechP200S and branded it one of his 'maddest' bits of kit on his Diddly Squat Farm, in Chadlington, Oxfordshire.
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Last year, he wrote of the device's 240kg hammer: 'Until these hydraulic post-knockers came along you had to use a manual one, nicknamed a 'man killer'.
'There's nothing that wears you out more than manually knocking in a fencepost, particularly around here where the ground is 90 per cent stone.
'So the hydraulic machine is a very good invention, although it's also a scary-looking thing.
'It could be used in Gangs of Chipping Norton. This really would break you in half.
'But we got all the fences done — not terribly well, but we did a pretty good job.'
Farm thefts have rocketed in the last decade, with many rural businesses bringing in anti-robbery measures.
Gangs of organised thugs on quad bikes have also spent years targeting farms with little or no security measures.
Rural crime on farms, including machinery and livestock theft, costs the UK economy at least £50million a year.
NFU Mutual, the insurance company used by many farmers, reported the total cost of vehicle and GPS theft amounted to more than £7million in 2024 alone.
Kaleb's representative and Thames Valley Police were asked to comment.
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Farm thefts have skyrocketed in the last decade costing the UK economy at least £50 million a year
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