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What's your issue, NN? I read your post several times and decided you were way off beam is associating site rules/etiquette with the information a hire company gives out. I gave my view and you agreed with me so why are you now getting upset?
Agreed, you did not say hire companies should give out site info but the implication was clearly there, otherwise why drag that aspect into the equation? Maybe you simply didn't express yourself well.
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We were on Top Lodge site and the same thing happens with a motor caravan who was told Not to go to the rear of the site as it was very soft after a wet few days, but he knew best and got well stuck, and was very upset when he got charged by a local recovery company to extrIcate him
So I can quite understand the situation when CL owners quite often are not on site when those not just newbies either have no idea of how to check the ground conditions or think they know best
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We once got stuck on a small Campsite in France in January en route to Spain. It was snowing and I dropped a wheel off the track while trying to get onto a gravel pitch.
"My man won't be back till 4", the lady said when we asked for help. Fortunately, grand-père turned up and towed us out of trouble with his little 'Kangoo'!
"Et maintenant, une tasse de the", I said and we all laughed
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... I think that is what he was inferring
I know
... It was a1960 p4
That pre-dates me then (just)! But I'm sure that if you were drive one again you'd realise how much modern cars have progressed ... power steering, disc brakes and the power of a modern car
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And how about those new M/H owners who haven't bothered to join a rescue service, as it was another expense they hadn't budgeted for, along with mud mats?
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A similar thing occurred on the Bromyard Downs site, where a campervan drove straight onto one of the grass pitches without checking the ground first, and became well and truly stuck.
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Wettest place we have ever pitched up was a Forestry Commission Site. Spiers House, Cropton Forest up above Levisham station on North York Moors. Everyone was axle deep. We had kept two wheels of our LR Defender on hard road, but others were yanked out by a chain and a tractor😱
Its not a camp site any more, notoriously wet. Now luxury log cabins around a bit of a holiday centre, you still don’t venture a wheel off the roads and tracks😂
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Sensible option, well thought out👍🏻
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My Van based camper has a different steel wheel as a spare, no problem, just make sure you have the correct wheel bolts, for it, and put them with your wheel change gear, Jack, wheelbrace.
Agree, there are many first timers out here, also many Europe tourers (ie folk who normally only tour in Europe). So have seen lots of Motorhomers filling up at normal water points instead of the M/H service points, blocking the road etc.,
And lots setting up dinner tables to eat formally outside !! In late September ! Bit chilly folks.
Interesting to watch though.
Us,? We are still touring Wales/Lakes/Highlands/Dunfries & Galloway, 5 weeks away trying to put off being locked down at Home.
For soft grass pitches I carry 4 cut down old plastic bread crates, which I park on, stops the van sinking in overnight. ALWAYS check a pitch BEFORE driving onto it ! Simple really.
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I've got four mud mats and it is surprising how much the wheels will sink into even a fairly firm grass pitch. Park up for four or five nights and there will be quite an indentation that your wheels have to climb out of.
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Worth having CY. We always carry some of those little Aldi mats, surprising what a help they can be. We have full on waffle boards for Winter touring, or if we know conditions are going to be testing (Wales features regular under “testing”😂) That said, we do use more HS pitches in Winter.
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