Giving the wrong impression
Just returned from a great weekend at the Clubs site at Troutbeck Head in the north lakes and the site was ver busy.
For sometime the pitch between ours and our neighbours remained empty, even though it was in a good location.
Outfits would stop look at the pitch and drive off.
We had noticed that when we arrived we thought that the adjacent pitch was occupied by a motorhome. We arrived at this conclussiion because there was an electric cable tightly wound at the base of the EHU Bollard immidetely behind the pitch.Not all motorhome owners leave a sign. The pitch remained unoccupied for 2 days until our neighbour vacated his pitch.
This has happeened before at Whitewater Park when I ran after a unit believing that he had left his cable. As it turned out it belonged to his neighbour who again had left it tightly wound at the base of the EHU Bollard which again was behind the pitch vacated by the unit I stopped.
This is easilly rectified and I believe that leaving the cable tightly wound can cause some other problems, regarding the build up of heat in the cable?
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NOT good practice as you say, but wearing my 'cynics hat' is this a ploy in an attempt to deter someone pitching there ?
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I saw a simlar 'trick' at Tewkesbury last year where a motorhome pitched opposite and later I noticed had placed a bucket over the peg of the adjacent pitch! I thought that the wardens would have picked this up but nothing happened. It was all the more
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yes coiling a cable tightly when in use will cause heat and if no air round it (like when wound in a hoover ) will melt the cable eventually . So a good idea is if you wind it up on a drum uncoil it completely or it will melt down eventually when under
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