Grass cutting on CC sites

iansoady
iansoady Club Member Posts: 419 ✭✭✭
edited March 2012 in UK Campsites & Touring #1

I'm probably alone in this view but I'm afraid I find the constant grass cutting on most CC sites to be quite intrusive. I appreciate the sites need to be kept tidy but once a day seems overkill to me, especially with the racket emitted by the machinery
favoured by the Club.

Most years we spend 3 weeks or so in France and I can hardly remember ever seeing anybody cutting the grass at all there - yet most sites, even the municipals, look reasonably well kept.

 I'd be interested in other views, especially whether it might be possible to have parts of some sites left in a "wilder" condition.

This view probably gfoes along with our preference for grass pitches rather than hard standing. Maybe we're still tent campers at heart! 

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  • Cycling Plumber
    Cycling Plumber Forum Participant Posts: 2
    edited June 2021 #2

    We have just returned from a site that we’re using petrol strimmers all day on the wettest day of the week. We also watched on the hottest day a sit on mower take 30 minutes to cut a vacant space, it would take me 10 minutes with a hand mower.

    I know the sites have got to be kept tidy, but please think about your paying customers.

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,644 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2021 #3

     The OP is over 9 years old, and CP's follow up post today the only response.....Is this a record?

  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,860 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2021 #4

    Nellie

    Because its so old all the previous posts, which I am sure were many, have been Deleted User after one of the forum changes/upgrades just leaving the original post. 

    David

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,644 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2021 #5

    I knew you'd come back with that response, David.wink

  • SeasideBill
    SeasideBill Forum Participant Posts: 2,112
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    edited June 2021 #6

    The sooner the Club converts all the grass pitches to Astro Turf the better! 😎

  • young thomas
    young thomas Forum Participant Posts: 11,356
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    edited June 2021 #7

    the sooner the Club converts to a decent forum software, the better!cool

  • Unknown
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    edited June 2021 #8
    The user and all related content has been Deleted User
  • HarryTheHymer
    HarryTheHymer Forum Participant Posts: 153
    edited June 2021 #9

    Ah the little orange tractors never ending and relentless war with grass!

  • HarryTheHymer
    HarryTheHymer Forum Participant Posts: 153
    edited June 2021 #10

    Maybe the club should tarmac over the sites in green tarmac?

    I see nothing wrong with grass that hasn’t been relentlessly shorn into an huge bowling green.

  • HarryTheHymer
    HarryTheHymer Forum Participant Posts: 153
    edited June 2021 #11

    Is the website served by a dial up modem?

  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,303 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2021 #12

    They were green at Bridlington and much quieter than there orange counterparts.😀

  • TimboC
    TimboC Club Member Posts: 422
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    edited June 2021 #13

    Looks like a typo to me...

  • TimboC
    TimboC Club Member Posts: 422
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    edited June 2021 #14

     No, its not that modern