Unofficial : Norfolk

Absoblumenlutely bloody fantastic!

Come back a day early due to the Bank holiday and work so most of the possie are still there.

Bill is providing entertainment in his usual manner ;-) (and reports as we left the site were he was at it again!) .... we've done some lane clearance and debated the use of the particular lane with the local Nimby as we really upset the applecart by clearing t fallen [1] tree. My wadders and saw from lidl came in very handy. Mark snapped Niges chopper clean in half too after Nige told Mark to hit it like a man....lol! (You had to be there!)

We did three fords which according to Si were half a wheel depth..... we quickly established they were half way up the door which proved too much temptation for such intreped adventures, fueled by peer pressure and testosterone.

Bill decided that the V8 was getting a little thirsty and came to a controlled halt in the middle of a ford (really?) and procedded to test the water resistance of the seats.... inverter.... walkie talkies and maps. Mark quickly came to the resuce whislt Si stood up to his waist in the stream , Mark reversed in and Si spent a good couple of minutes trying to attach a rope to an nonexistant under water towball....funny as hell! All the cars safely on dry land and Bill turned the Disco in to a jet wash to ensure all silt remained in the stream and not on the road..... when I stop grinning so much I'll upload some piccys.

Lee D

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Yeah that was great! My disco has collected some nice scratches (ouch) and a bit of the rear bumper is hanging loosely. Here are some of my pics:

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Im just uploading my pics now.

What a superb weekend. Best camping trip of my life.

Lee, you missed a cracker at the Off Road site on Sunday.....

Simon I went through a bombhole, full of muddy silt, and just made it though. Bill followed in the V8, but just couldnt manage to get over the crest... Reversed back hard to get a good run. The engine died, and a massive hissssssss was heard.. Terminal? We all thought so for a bit..

The water was well over the rear step, so we volunteered Bills lad to wade in and try and attach a rope to the tow bar - But it wasnt there. The silt was so - silty? that it had solidified and could take Christopher's weight so it only looked a few inches deep!

Tried to pull it from the front, and both mine and Paulxxx's disco would not shift it an inch. Sommat aint right here we all thought..

Turned out that during the reverse back, the rear backbox had filled to the top of mud and was solid. The hiss was from the gasses in the exhaust seeping out from the joins.

After about an hour and a half, we got it back to the top had a brew, bent the exhaust back into shape and modified the rear hanger a bit with a big bar.

The V8 still had the last laugh though. After it was up to the bonnet in water, and stuck fast in a mud hole, the gearbox oil cooler decided to start leaking... Which we tried to fix using hose from Nige's caravan - But it beat us in the end... I left just as the AA man arrived on Monday morning.

The weekend was absolutly superb. Big thanks to Si for sorting it out, and to everyone else that was there for making it memorable.

Bec has taken loads of pics, which are uploading now - But there is one that I think summs up the weekend perfectly.

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The rest will be here, if my laptop battery lasts long enough :)

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Typical init!

Cracking pictures there!

Nige should be rolling again now.. probably on a low loader, got a text from him. He's doing an impression of a gypo on the A1 with a broken water pump pulley. Claimed a few victims this one though nowt serious thus far.

Lee D

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A most excellent weekend. We've been home a while now, but un-loaded, then needed to get stuff sorted, then fed and watered ... then fell asleep!

Gotta say a big thanks to Simon for arranging it.

Cracking days laneing, Bill was really up for it and good value for money. ;) Brilliant little 'play' area, very technical, nicely muddy and again Bill got in the action straight away. ;)

Nice to put faces to names and will most definitely be up for more meets.

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Yup, such an eventful weekend it's hard to take in just how much happened, for some even before the weekend really started. Hope Nige's brakes were OK on the way home... and that Bills AA man really was a nice man ... ;)

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Jeez, I should have read all this thread before I posted ... hopefully Nige's brakes are OK ... ;)

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Couple of pics (Me cross-axled and stuck) from Play day and three from Yorkshire Dales earlier this year with Nige and Andy.

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Whereabouts in Norfolk were you?

I'm annoyed I missed coming to watch! TonyB

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Sounds smashing, shame 'herself' decided to damage bones an all, we'd probably have made it. You need to expect a few mechanical casualties on an event like this, tis a right of passage.

What's the story with the NIMBY - and why on earth didn't anyone have a chainsaw to clear a jungle ;-)

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The Jury is still out on wether or not the tree blocking the lane had been "helped" down.

The quotes from the Nimby such as "You can't drive this lane it's going to be reclassified" key word being "going" and from I suspect her equally vile daughter / banjo playing ignoramus , "Do the estate know what you are doing" and "You have no right to remove that tree" were met by a polite factual response from those a little more educated on the matter. For some odd reason all these years of study came flooding back.... years of study of 'tinternet that is in reference lanes and abatement.

Oh how we chuckled as the silly bint walked in to a branch as she insisted in walking through the fallen tree. I hate seeing anyone suffer but this eliquent young lady would test the patients of a saint.

The fact that we watched two horse riders risk life and limb to get through the very deep mud to get around the tree (note not on the lane) and risk having a horse put down or personal injury seemed to be of no consequence to the Nimby's.

I did think at one point I might have to get the pioneers shovel out once Nige was in to the swing of the conversation.;-)

I had a chain saw but forgot my safety sandals ;-) so deployed my mighty chopper which was safe for use when wearing waders. Mrs_D assures me it's not the size that counts it's what you do with it. :-) I'd learn't from one of my trips with the 101 as Tom bears witness that it pays to have a chopper handy while out laning incase you should come across such an obstruction. I didn't expect future obstructions to be quite so big mind but between us all we got there by tugging un unison :-)

Lee D

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On a nearby overgrown UCR (and I have checked at the records office) we were accosted by a local horse rider who regarded the presence of three 4x4s on the less overgrown half of the lane as some kind of personal tradgedy and started harping on about hordes of 4x4s descending on the lane and destroying it.

Funnily enough the reason we were there was to see if we could undo the damage done by horses trudging through the bad drainage spots on the lane, which make it so hard to walk you have to take a large stick to lever yourself out of thick shin-covering mud. Forget taking a bike. Considering that, and the road hazard the local horse riders create, it's a bit rich that they try to take the moral high ground.

There's a similar tree down recently on a lane I do almost twice a week, I was going to tackle it but was running late, once home I noticed my tree-moving gear leaning up against the fence where I'd been using it to shift trees in my garden.. Must remember to stow it in the proper place!

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Stayed at Diglea camping/caravan site in Snettisham. Green-laning was part of the Peddars Way and the Play Day was in a wood that Peterborough

4x4 club rent out. Top marks to Simon for sorting it all out. ;)
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Indeed and not forgetting Dawn who I recall had a hand in the organisation too from earlier posts. Belting effort!

Lee D

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Indeed.

And for the burgers in the woods on Sunday.

Has anyone heard back from Nige at all?

Sounds like the pully/impellor has sheard of the water pump? Overtight?

Hope they all get back ok.

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And my humble effort is here :-)

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Any one wants any I'll post'em on, just shout up. That exhaust is a pisser! Poor thing.

Lee D

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Hmm... I wonder why it died!

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Mark Solesbury

Did Bill go under his own steam (literally!) or via a recovery truck?

Where art though Wild Billy Two tents?

Lee D

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Eh? You mean Nige 'engaged in conversation' with the NIMBY? Shit, I'm not sure I want to know...

You could have tried just telling her to f*ck off...

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:-) we cut the tree up for anyone who may be confused, not the Nimby. The Nimby lived to moan another day though there is a counterstike planned for the rather biased member of the Parish council once we have the necessary details :-) power of the pen and all that. After all we'd done nowt wrong, were going about our own lawful business and certainly weren't about to be bullied or intimidated by a tool with a camera.

Lee D

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