Bush Farm Saltash 14/09/08

A few of us Cornish boys and girls went up to Bush Farm near Saltash on Sunday for a bit of a play with the Plymouth Off Road crew ...... thanks for the invite guys n gals

The story began with myself (blue 200TDI Disco), Pepsi (red 300TDI Disco), Jimmy (black RRC) and BustRucket (green 200TDI Disco) all meeting up at various points along the A30 and the journey began with Jerry .......... at this point i should explain that the Mrs likes to name all our cars and my 200TDI got it's name because "Jerry Can" (cue the groans and skyward glances) .......... anyways back to the report .....

So the day began with Jerry suddenly losing power just 8 miles into the journey up, this turned out to be a lack of go go juice but it wasn't my fault .... honest ..... the gauge is reading wrong .... after that problem was resolved by the nice people at the nearest fuel station (robbing b*st*rds!!) we had a trouble free drive to Saltash Services where we met some others who had arranged to meet us there in Zuk's and a Toyota king cab but we'll forgive them their misfortune, soon the Plymouth posse arrived and after much hand shaking and photo taking we were on our way to uncharted territory

At Bush Farm the first problem was when Paul in the king cab got stuck up to his axles after rescuing a Zuki so i tried to pull him out with no success ......... now at this point a nice chap approached me and offered his assistance but when i saw what he was driving i couldn't help but wonder ........ yes both myself and the king cab were pulled out by non less than a VW campervan!!!



A short interval was then experienced as we straightened Pauls steering arm and then we head off into the unknown once more .......

I seem to remember telling James (Mr Alford) last week that i'd be taking it easy on the day but once my "flip top cranium" had been emptied of all common sense and fear taking it easy was a thing of the past .... especially when i saw a big muddy puddle in the quarry ....... glad i fitted the snorkel ......... needless to say wet carpets and new fangled liquid cooled headlamps ensued .......

"I really REALLY hope i sealed the snorkel properly!"











More to follow.........

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STUCK? ............... send the boy out to the work



Getting stuck seemed to be the order of the day and my little group said it was a real advantage having a "gung ho idiot" in front to test the waters for them ............. but if you aren't getting stuck your not trying hard enough ..........







RECOVERED BY A ZUK!! ............................. ohhhhhhhh the shame

ey oop Cap'n.
Looks like you had fun!
Shame I couldn't join you.











Oh - and hang yer head in shame fer being recovered by a ferkin veedub!

DiscoGirl started getting braver later in the day once things had quietened down a bit and seeing as it was her first time driving offroad did extremely well ..............











Jimmy had lots of fun too with BustRucket riding shotgun for the best part of the day......











And after a while we even tempted BustRucket to take his around a bit ....... but due to his Disco having road tyres fittes nothing too extreme







I couldn't have asked better from Jerry on the day and he did me proud

The journey home had it's problems with Jimmy in the RRC suffering a fractured transmission cooling pipe and my Disco mysteriously losing all of its coolant with no obvious leaks ............. but we all got home safely in the end.

Oh yeah .......... and i removed my rear bumper ......... accidently ................ HONEST

Bush Farm turned out to be better than we could have ever asked for thanks to all for making it the day it was

Fantastic, that looks really fun, wish i coulda bin there (mightn't have the head i do if i had of!!!) Must do it again soon when me n Trewey can make it and show us round!!!

More pics from the day..................

Trewey ... Oddie .......... we'll be happy to take you there and show you around

Just be warned in advance ................. i now have a reputation on the Plymouth Off Road forum as a nutter!!

Cant think why???????????

Are they open every weekend (very close to me!).
It's just that every time I've tried to contact them (e-mail or phone) there's been no reply.

Treworgey 90 said:

Are they open every weekend (very close to me!).
It's just that every time I've tried to contact them (e-mail or phone) there's been no reply.

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Think so mate ................ might close if they gotta challenge event on???

Nik has the number so i'll get her to PM u with it incase it's changed

CaptainChaos said:

Think so mate ................ might close if they gotta challenge event on???

Nik has the number so i'll get her to PM u with it incase it's changed

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cheers mate!

Nice write up Chaos,
Was a great day out. You got some good pics.
Shame cos i only took a few, was too buisy having fun in the mud.
Thanks for the help bypassing my oil cooler, good job we noticed the leak!!
Although it was a slow limp home, at least we made it!

Thanks again!

As this day out was my first time at driving off road, I did not know what to expect.......some things I thought would be hard and other objects I did not think about(getting stuck in tracks that wasnt very deep and not being able to get out!! Thanks Jimmi ).
I was as green as the grass we were driving on and the first thing I done(wrong)was just before CC was getting towed by the VW on that hill.I drove down near the bottom,and thought I will get in the way here,so I turned round and went back up the hill. CC came up to me and asked what gear I was in......so I told him........normal 2nd gear........his face wasnt good ....... He then told me I should NOT of been able to drive up the slope like that.....should of been in diff lock then 2nd gear.
Then I explained I have never put Dora(my Disco)in diff lock before so he did for me after that all was well
I put my trust in Dora and she never let me down at all,there are only 2 things I wish were different...........
one......
There was a very steep and twisted area where we drove down and I am gutted no-one got a pic of that.and .....
two......
I wanted to get very muddy on the outside

I had a fantastic time,and can not wait to go there again.Next time Oddie and Trewy..... please come with us

Thanks to everyone who gave me helpfull advice,you really helped

Here be me pictures.....

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Cheers all for a great day out - glad everyone got back ok

Great pics mate