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DG
Joined: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff !
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Great pics fellas  ...looks like I missed a good weekend  Powered by............................
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I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit 
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DSL
Joined: 11 May 2006
Location: In the Dog House!
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Me too! 
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gilmore
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
Location: Plotting...
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to Ryan!
Many thanks for a great deal of effort that really paid off. Stonking weekend!
Thanks to Gareth for extra lane guidance. Thanks to Wiggs, Ent and Discocuzzy (and others) for great laugh.
Thanks to Bonnie for being... well. Bonnie!
Great to see everyone! See you next time
Will post pictures...
cheers
Rob All opinions expressed in this posting are my own and are not necessarily those of someone who knows what they are talking about.
TDV6 S Auto, Silver with bramble finish, Cooper STTs & plenty of Stihl countryside control...
GLASS member since 2007
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mick
Joined: 21 Jan 2007
Location: All over
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Nice photos Gareth.
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buzz
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: lancashire
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fantastic weekend........its official....pints of red wine are good for the soul........the real challenge proved to be an innocent looking grass slope off the site.......
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bobbycrispbox
Joined: 15 May 2006
Location: The Peaks
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You seemed to be having traction problems last night too  mooie koplampen
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discocuzzy
Joined: 02 Feb 2008
Location: surrey
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Its official Bobby,at 12.30 this morning, buzz was the drunkest man in the world "you cannot teach stupid people to do clever things"
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buzz
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: lancashire
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i fell over uncle ray ray coming out of the bog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 06 Zermatt 7 seat auto with PDC and privacy
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Maverick
Joined: 25 Jul 2007
Location: Aberdeenshire!
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Hate to say it but I've done worse!  Happiness is a vectored thrust! (As seen on a Harrier GR3)
 1980 Series 3 restoration - Mine
 Very dirty 1996 Defender 90 - Soon to be mine!
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Formerly Hobbs!
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DSL
Joined: 11 May 2006
Location: In the Dog House!
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buzz wrote:i fell over uncle ray ray coming out of the bog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and that''s your story & you're sticking to it!!!!
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buzz
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: lancashire
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discocuzzy wrote:
Its official Bobby,at 12.30 this morning, buzz was the drunkest man in the world
and at the same time bonnie was the drunkest woman in the world 06 Zermatt 7 seat auto with PDC and privacy
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Gareth
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Joined: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bob the Builders 'ere
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Thoroughly enjoyed the weekend, it actually stopped raining, for about 15 minutes at about 4 am this morning. However, weather aside everyone seemed to enjoy the trip and the campsite bar was well attended despite been ankle deep in mud. The campsite was slightly reminiscent of Billing last year.
Ryan prepared a choice of routes, easy, not so easy, and not really very easy at all. (Ryan, don't forget to have a 'word' with your mate - driveable my  )
I decided to do the harder of the routes on day 1, and was accompanied by the entire Irish contingent along with a few others. Everything was going really well until we got halfway along the Coach Road. I knew it was in bad condition after my mate got stuck in a hole over Easter, however it was on the route card and Ryan assured me that the hole was filled in, and his mate had driven it recently.
When we got to the said hole it certainly looked deep, but with Ryans advice in my head, and plenty of assistance available to recover I decided to have a go - big mistake. It was very deep and Betsy got stuck firmly. Chris Tyler got the ground anchors out, and much as Betsy tried with her winch, all we succeeded in doing was ploughing the peat with the ground anchor.
Plan B was a winch out backwards, courtesy of Bobbycrispbox. This was going well until a hidden rock got wedged under the car and lifted the rear wheels up and right so one fell into the ditch, the bank then gave way and the front went in too, I can tell you that limpet mode was fully engaged, with a good grip on the seat with both cheeks  I honestly thought she was going over!
There then followed a winch recovery of great complexity. Marcus drove his G4 up the side of the track, faced Betsy and wedged a wheel on a rock. He attached his winch rope to the front of Betsy. BCB's winch was still attached to the rear, and was the only thing stopping Betsy tipping over into the ditch. Marcus started to pull Betsy's front wheels sideways out of the ditch, with BCB pulling the rear up at the same time. It was working well until Marcus' plasma snagged on his winch bracket and snapped!
A quick repair to the plasma courtesy of Chris Tyler got the recovery back on track, and Betsy was rescued. Only damage was a badly bent gearbox crossmember under the chassis, a snapped exhaust mounting caused by the rear spring shackle getting badly displaced by the force of the winch. Nothing unrepairable.
Anyway, that was my highlight, witnessed by most attendees as the recovery took so long that all the other groups got stuck behind us. There was no way through so the entire convoy had to turn around and drive out of the lane the way we went in.
There was lots more went on, I'll let others tell their stories. Silver TDV6 HSE
Pepper White Cooper S Convertible
Old English White MGB GT
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DSL
Joined: 11 May 2006
Location: In the Dog House!
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buzz wrote:discocuzzy wrote:
Its official Bobby,at 12.30 this morning, buzz was the drunkest man in the world
and at the same time bonnie was the drunkest woman in the world
A match made in heaven! 
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DiscoDunc
Joined: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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got home about an hour ago. We were second to last to leave the campsite this afternoon and had to be towed off by the tractor  .
BIG thanks to Ryan. He put a lot of time and effort into preparing the routes, erecting and dismantling the marques and sorting out all the drink and BBQ - Thanks ryan 
i have a few photos i'll post, especially the one of DiscoCuzzy being recovered from a swamp by an L200 Duncan
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Some of my pictures are corrupted on the memory card.
