Trip wires
We are currently enjoying a week at Commons Wood and are experiencing an unusually large amount of foot traffic across our pitch on route to the facilities. i know this subject has been done to death, so I am wondering if the club frowns upon the use of trip wires?
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I guess you are on the grass pitches before the toilet block,but when we visited the was a plastic chain link and posts behind the first row on the road and the middle section.
Has the chain link been removed or are they just stepping over it?
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machine gun turrets?
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On a site we stay at in France two large motorhomes turned up and the owners promptly set about erecting portable fences around each of their pitches. The fences were about 0.75 meters high and extended to the edge of their pitch. Turned out it was to keep the dogs in but maybe the OP could look out for something similar?
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Perhaps a strategically positioned rotary washing line with guy ropes? No one could object to that!
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How about getting a large fierce dog, on a maximum allowable lead of course !!
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I think we've been on the same pitch but how about just speaking to them and pointing out your dislike of their actions and asking them to walk round.
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"so I am wondering if the club frowns upon the use of trip wires?"
Irrespective of what the club's attitude could be and I am certain it would not approve, it is best to ensure your insurance covers you from any form of deliberately presenting a hazard to other site users!
Could lead to a life changing magnitude claim otherwise.
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Try an uzi from the perimeter then.
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At Moreton once and this women kept going across our pitch, squeezing between some trees and our van, and within inches of our caravan, a few more feet and there was a path, so just lazy. OH lifted the electric cable and put it across a bucket, she stepped over it! Maybe there should be a sign in Wardens office. 'Please respect other people's privacy on their pitches'
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Follow the offenders back to their pitch with a folding chair and cup of tea. When they ask what your up to just explain you thought you were sharing pitches with them
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On the Great Malvern site a previous camper had left two pegs in the hardstanding towards the rear of the pitch. 3 people crossing our pitch after walking down a grass battered slope behind our caravan tripped over them. Given we were off site for 7 hours a day of our 5 night stay I wonder how many more they claimed?
I removed them when we left site
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We are on a grass pitch in the centre on the far side from the amenities. There is still plastic chain link, but it has sagged. The pitches nearest the toilets are also getting the same traffic. It is not such a huge deal that I want to go out of my way to have a ruck about it. For the sake of walking a few extra yards, I do find it amazing that some people do not consider others. I guess I should have booked a pitch and not a footpath. 😆
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Why the need to add to club rules? Why not just have respect for your fellow member??
JK
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You know you want something else to police, JK 😆
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Indeed, but it seems many do not.
Not limited to the CAMC however, we had the same problem while pitched on a hardstanding near the facilities on the Cambridge C&CC site last year.
Not having our awning up, the lazy bunch were crunching their way over the HS within feet of our door.
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Looking at the site plan in question, it is easy to understand why those pitched on the centre grass pitches, 7, 9,10 &12 would access the toilet block by passing close to between other pitches. Certainly if time was of the essence. The layout is rather designed to "encourage" it in those cases making pitches 3,4,5 & 6 naturally unsuitable for some.
https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/globalassets/pdfs/sites/a-e/commons-wood/commons-wood-site-plan
Whilst crunching over a HS or passing an arms length from ones unit is clearly not "on", I suspect some have an extended concept of what constitutes "their" pitch?
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Some may have an extended concept ocsid but at Great Malvern I have certainly experienced people walking through the centre of the hardstand comprising what would have been the awning area and stepping around table and chairs even when I was sat out.
I have twice had somebody walk into an open window edge when passing between car and caravan offside. One of those was at Great Malvern and he seemed upset when I burst out laughing as he swore. I was sat on the front bench seat with the window open.
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