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My two penn'orth ...
The bomb hole is probably the 'correct' route .. but so is the 'go-around'. The simple fact is that the lane at that point is wide enough to drive almost anywhere between them!
Like many places, most lanes are actually as wide as the distance between walls or boundaries, unless part of the lane is designated footpath or bridleway, which is where a lot of confusion comes in. There are usually one or two tracks that are 'vehicle width' and which everyone takes, but that doesn't mean they are the only legal vehicular ways through ... and it doesn't mean that someone going off the 'worn bit of the route' is necessarily in the wrong or driving illegally! Do you think the sheep/cattle/geese/herds of whatever cared which bit of the lane they walked over, ate off, **** on, dug up? It's only our road oriented conventions that say we must keep to a normal roadway/vehicle lanes width when in fact there is very little legal definition of the widths of byways, especially ancient drover roads that are now byways.
How do you determine the widths of the drive-able lanes at each point? It's easy at gates or when there's walls, but at the bomb hole there is a wood a fence and another fence .. which bits between the fences are deemed not legal to drive? How were they determined and who determined them?
Just my thoughts on driving lanes ..
Having said that .. some Byways might also be 100 yards wide between fences/boundaries, but the only legally drive-able bit might be a single track in the middle or either side, or even meandering .. each might be different to the next .. hence checking needs to be done, usually through the local council or authority.
For anyone worried, the bomb hole can be done in a standard 300Tdi Disco quite easily, without damage .. OK, I bent a bumper once, but that was my fault!
The bomb hole is probably the 'correct' route .. but so is the 'go-around'. The simple fact is that the lane at that point is wide enough to drive almost anywhere between them!
Like many places, most lanes are actually as wide as the distance between walls or boundaries, unless part of the lane is designated footpath or bridleway, which is where a lot of confusion comes in. There are usually one or two tracks that are 'vehicle width' and which everyone takes, but that doesn't mean they are the only legal vehicular ways through ... and it doesn't mean that someone going off the 'worn bit of the route' is necessarily in the wrong or driving illegally! Do you think the sheep/cattle/geese/herds of whatever cared which bit of the lane they walked over, ate off, **** on, dug up? It's only our road oriented conventions that say we must keep to a normal roadway/vehicle lanes width when in fact there is very little legal definition of the widths of byways, especially ancient drover roads that are now byways.
How do you determine the widths of the drive-able lanes at each point? It's easy at gates or when there's walls, but at the bomb hole there is a wood a fence and another fence .. which bits between the fences are deemed not legal to drive? How were they determined and who determined them?
Just my thoughts on driving lanes ..
Having said that .. some Byways might also be 100 yards wide between fences/boundaries, but the only legally drive-able bit might be a single track in the middle or either side, or even meandering .. each might be different to the next .. hence checking needs to be done, usually through the local council or authority.
For anyone worried, the bomb hole can be done in a standard 300Tdi Disco quite easily, without damage .. OK, I bent a bumper once, but that was my fault!
