We've now got 2 pegs - Black Knowl
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It matters not at all to me if someone pitches with their door facing mine. Why would it? 🤷🏻♂️
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What's the worst that can happen?
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They may see what you’re cooking for tea perhaps?😂😂
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It has been that way indeed there, for many years, around 20. Mainly to do with getting the best views and before movers were so common the wardens would offer to help push the caravan in.
Some would still reverse in so there would a mix. No problems whatsoever.
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Just to clear up a couple of points and for the sake of going over very old ground. The only "rules" are that you park your outfit between the two markers with the option of going front or rear in. There are no rules regarding which way the habitation door faces and there never has been.
The two peg system has been adopted because some people were unsure how to pitch up which resulted quite a few times with people having to repitch their outfits to maintain our required fire spacing.
There are a number of private sites where you can pitch up how you like, I use a couple myself but the club has a large network of sites, some a lot more spacious than others so a standard uniform approach of parking between two markers makes sense. And works.
JK
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I think you & your fellow managers would be way too busy if each site had its own pitching rules🤷🏻♂️
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Isn’t Rutland an AS?
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I've been pitching nose for over twenty years at one site, and always actively encouraged.
But JK is correct, from previous discussions and threads on here the rules have always been the same on club sites, that is one could park nose in or reverse in, but incorrectly a very small number of wardens decided to apply their own unofficial rules.
I recall a particular case on here where following a similar incident to yours but on a club site where an apology was issued by the club and something along the lines of that particular warden would receive 're-training'.
I also recall some posters taking the published statement from the club with them on their travels in case other wardens had the same idea.
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Yes it is, and so wouldn't be subject to the same rules. Also wouldn't have wardens either?
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+1, I was told I could do it in 2012👍🏻
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I have the same recollection and experience.
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We don’t stay often on Club sites but stayed on one for a night last year which had two pegs. Despite not having a problem positioning correctly to one peg, it was easier. And if we must have pegs and if it reduces the amount of hassle for wardens, so be it. It is not the pegs that put me off Club sites.
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"Even so as I posted some wardens did take matters into their own hands and this was perhaps one of them?"
We met one like that at Hunters Moon. Would give no reason other than "That’s the way it is on this site". That was about 10 years ago but we never returned to that site.
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We parked sideways on at Marazion, and there are similar pitches at Yellowcraig. Usually has the purists harrumphing into their breakfast cornflakes, but all perfectly legitimate 😁
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I can remember when we first joined in the 80s you had to pitch with the peg in the middle of the van. It was easy at Nunnykirk, our “go to” site for weekends. There’s so much room just drive on from back of pitch, remove peg drive over replace peg. Harder on sites were you had to reverse “blind” that’s why it was changed to offside corner.
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Yet another club site where nose-in is the norm on many pitches. Here there are several terraced rows where practically every unit is nose in. The only exception I’ve seen is a rear lounge motorhome. Everyone is apparently happy and enjoying the sun although the wind is decidedly chilly. Oh, and the two peg system appears to be working extremely well.
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Can't see what all the fuss is about. Doesn't matter if there is 1 or 2 pegs. I always pitch to align with the offside pitch anyway as its usually the only one to be seen. Club sites by and large do not often afford straight back pitching so I try to ensure I can see the off peg.
As long as I get it right the caravan will fit into the 2 pegs.
Not likely to bother me much being a CL user. Arrived on new CL site today. Owner told us to pitch any way we liked as long as it was between the pitch marker, which could fit a large 4x4 and Twin Axle lengthways next door to us and we'll still have room to park the car in front of their car if we wanted.
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I really don’t think the likes of you, Wherenext, and me were the issue. I’m reliably informed it was the others who frequently got it wrong that caused issues. I do believe that the two peg system is helping and the clarification of the rules too but there will always be some who get it wrong and some who like to fuss about rules that never existed. Clearly some are in need of visual help for a whole variety of reasons but they are in a very small minority these days it appears given the extra ‘help’ given.
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Can recall those days, and yes, done the drive over the peg thing😁
Pitching space is critical on Club Sites nowadays, maximum number of pitches that can be fitted in. Also, outfits are so much longer/wider than they used to be, so on older sites, it’s another factor. Saves staff having to advise if someone does get it wrong. Not everyone understands off side and nearside, whereas put it between little stick 1 and little stick 2 is simple.
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