Less Lousy At Reversing Trailers Near Haverfordwest

Following earlier post spent an enjoyable few hours at Wood Park Off-Road
(www.woodpark-offroad.com) on Wednesday evening playing with Jumbos' 110 and
a trailer with a trialer on it... Good fun and learnt some stuff about
reversing; even got it to go round a blind-side corner... It may not seem
much to all those natural reversers out there but I was dead chuffed! Will
back this up with some practice soon...

Good also to meet other faces behind the e-mail addresses on
alt.fan.landrover, thanks Richard and Di for sharing the evening. Hope to
catch up with you for a beer in N.Wales in October and will look out for
'Spinner' in the mean-time.

High-light of the evening was probably having a tour of Jumbos off-road site
in the dark - miles of really good tracks and more like going for a drive in
a forest (with steep hills and thick mud) than going round a commercial
off-road site. Recommended; it fully lives up the report in this months LRO
(pp 72 - 77, only fault I can find is that the caption on the photo on p77
is wrong; that's not Broad Haven!).

Cheers,

M.

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:04:00 +0100, "McBad"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>It may not seem much to all those natural reversers out there

There's no such thing. I've been towing small to scary big stuff for
near 30 years and even so, still managed to completely **** up a basic
reversing of a small 1/2 tonne Sankey whilst collecting and engine and
gearbox (mind, I had put my back out before this and will call on that
as an excuse!).

Everyone gets it wrong from time to time - when this happens to you,
don't let it dent your confidence, just take the laughs, and smile


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McBad wrote:

|| Following earlier post spent an enjoyable few hours at Wood Park
|| Off-Road (www.woodpark-offroad.com) on Wednesday evening playing
|| with Jumbos' 110 and a trailer with a trialer on it... Good fun and
|| learnt some stuff about reversing; even got it to go round a
|| blind-side corner... It may not seem much to all those natural
|| reversers out there but I was dead chuffed! Will back this up with
|| some practice soon...

I thort the boy done good, meself.

|| Good also to meet other faces behind the e-mail addresses on
|| alt.fan.landrover, thanks Richard and Di for sharing the evening.
|| Hope to catch up with you for a beer in N.Wales in October and will
|| look out for 'Spinner' in the mean-time.

Good to meet you too, and thanks for the invite. It was well worth the
trip. I'll owe you a beer, then.

|| High-light of the evening was probably having a tour of Jumbos
|| off-road site in the dark - miles of really good tracks and more
|| like going for a drive in a forest (with steep hills and thick mud)
|| than going round a commercial off-road site. Recommended; it fully
|| lives up the report in this months LRO (pp 72 - 77, only fault I can
|| find is that the caption on the photo on p77 is wrong; that's not
|| Broad Haven!).

Seconded - I thought I knew Wood Park but in the dark I was totally lost.
Great site but, as you found, it ain't cheap. I scoped him out for a day's
offroading when we had the unofficial in West Wales last year, but cost
would have been prohibitive.

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On or around Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:54 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:04:00 +0100, "McBad"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>It may not seem much to all those natural reversers out there
>
>There's no such thing. I've been towing small to scary big stuff for
>near 30 years and even so, still managed to completely **** up a basic
>reversing of a small 1/2 tonne Sankey whilst collecting and engine and
>gearbox (mind, I had put my back out before this and will call on that
>as an excuse!).
>
>Everyone gets it wrong from time to time - when this happens to you,
>don't let it dent your confidence, just take the laughs, and smile

did you see "top gear goes on a caravan holiday" - bloody hilarious.

Mind, they were discussing proper tow cars and included the disco V8 on the
list, so can't be all bad.
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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:42:35 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On or around Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:17:54 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
> @"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

[reversing a trailer]

>>
>> Everyone gets it wrong from time to time - when this happens to you,
>> don't let it dent your confidence, just take the laughs, and smile
>
> did you see "top gear goes on a caravan holiday" - bloody hilarious.

yes, #1 son went quiet so I wandered in to see what was what IYSWIM. yep
- agree with that: bloody hilarous is right

caravans - never appealed to me - although we will happily throw up a tent
on any patch of green that will have us.

--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

On 2006-07-21, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> did you see "top gear goes on a caravan holiday" - bloody hilarious.

Very funny but a setup, e.g. the caravan fire and the camera managing
to catch the burning cushion being thrown from the window onto the
other caravan, the fire scene wasn't filmed at the campsite, the
electrical hookup and the plot marker post mysteriously disappear
during the fire scene, so the other caravan (that was reversed into)
was bought in specially. The fire engine scene doesn't show any sign
of the original campsite either.

So funny but not genuine, just like the rest of the programme.

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On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:33:14 +0100, Ian Rawlings
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2006-07-21, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> did you see "top gear goes on a caravan holiday" - bloody hilarious.
>
>So funny but not genuine, just like the rest of the programme.

Agreed re "fire" was set-up.

I thought that May hitting the bollard on the way out of the petrol
station looked genuine though, from the in-car camera shot showing the
reaction of Clarkson and Hampster.

David

rads <[email protected]> uttered
summat worrerz funny about:

> I thought that May hitting the bollard on the way out of the petrol
> station looked genuine though, from the in-car camera shot showing the
> reaction of Clarkson and Hampster.
>
> David

I'll take opportunity for a rant....

FORECOURT DESIGNERS - DON'T STICK THE LPG PUMP IN THE HARDEST TO GET TO PUMP
FOR THOSE WITH A FRIGGING CARAVAN / TRAILER ON!

There now, how much better do I feel ;-)

Lee D
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On or around Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:03:16 GMT, rads
<[email protected]> enlightened us
thusly:

>On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:33:14 +0100, Ian Rawlings
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On 2006-07-21, Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> did you see "top gear goes on a caravan holiday" - bloody hilarious.
>>
>>So funny but not genuine, just like the rest of the programme.
>
>Agreed re "fire" was set-up.
>
>I thought that May hitting the bollard on the way out of the petrol
>station looked genuine though, from the in-car camera shot showing the
>reaction of Clarkson and Hampster.
>


that and the farting around trying to turn round in the road, with Clarkson
and Hamster legging it when the dibbles arrived.

and, ****take notwithstanding, there was some useful stuff - most esepcially
about how easily caravans can burn, and the merit of having a fire
extinguisher... That and knowing what you're doing.

and if that crappy motor really is the caravan club's tow car of the year,
then the caravan club has its head further up its arse than even I thought.
You wont summat big, solid and powerful to tow a van properly. Volvos are
good at it, if you don't want a V8 LR product of course. Actually, 90s make
about the best tugs - although I don't doubt that ACE and suchlike have
tamed the disco - my epxerience of toing big things with a standard disco is
that it's not stable enough - my one, which had (by my design) stiffer
springing was better behaved.





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