Lincoln MP and his thoughts on Green Laning

johnnew · May 30, 2014

How much misinformation can John Mann Bassetlaw MP get into one newspaper article?
http://www.retfordtimes.co.uk/Lincoln-MP-Karl-McCartney-welcome-green-laning/story-21165981-detail/story.html#aWZcgBmsUoqifOuu.01

Larry365 · May 30, 2014

Lol, there are none in his own constituency. All we have left in Lincolnshire is a couple of unclassified roads which are so overgrown you cant walk down them..

johnnew · May 30, 2014

Larry365 said:
Lol, there are none in his own constituency. All we have left in Lincolnshire is a couple of unclassified roads which are so overgrown you cant walk down them..

so what the f.....k is he on about

Larry365 · May 30, 2014

I try not to read anything that these ignorants come out with. It just gets the blood boiling. Chauffeur driven twerps. 6' of space in the millions of acres... thats all we're asking for.

I do a lot of contract work for the councils on bridleways/byways/footpaths and horses do just as much damage as vehicles. It might not look it from a distance, but try walking on a bridleway that has 100's of hoof-prints. Ankle twisters! at least with ruts you can walk along the top of them

... or bottom..

We did more grading of bridleways damaged by horses last year than we did rut filling of byways. A substantial amount more.

johnnew · May 30, 2014

I only read it as the GREEN LANE ASSOCIATION sent it to me, would love to correct the idiot though

Larry365 · May 30, 2014

I'd like to have a lot of one to ones with a lot of these people. It would be nice to sit them down and tell them everything they're wrong about... perhaps something i'll try and do when I get my £64million tonight

johnnew · May 30, 2014

Larry365 said:
I'd like to have a lot of one to ones with a lot of these people. It would be nice to sit them down and tell them everything they're wrong about... perhaps something i'll try and do when I get my £64million tonight

wish you look then

Leebastard · May 30, 2014

johnnew said:
I only read it as the GREEN LANE ASSOCIATION sent it to me, would love to correct the idiot though

What a rediculous article. I have found him on twitter. I am going to take to the twittersphere.

Larry365 · May 30, 2014

Leebastard said:
What a rediculous article. I have found him on twitter. I am going to take to the twittersphere.

haha. lets flood his wall/feed, whatever twitter calls it, with pictures of ruts. really big ones full of water and ramblers crying.

jamesmartin · May 30, 2014

id have thought its a good idea that lincoln mp goes green laning with lro ,bassetlaw mp is a knob though

johnnew · May 30, 2014

Leebastard said:
What a rediculous article. I have found him on twitter. I am going to take to the twittersphere.

Let's go for it 😃

GINGE · May 30, 2014

Larry365 said:
Lol, there are none in his own constituency. All we have left in Lincolnshire is a couple of unclassified roads which are so overgrown you cant walk down them..

Is there any lincolnshire laners that don't mind a few scratches who could open these up a little?

Regards the MP; read the article earlier and he is clearly very angry and trying to get one over on his rival.

Larry365 · May 30, 2014

GINGE said:
Is there any lincolnshire laners that don't mind a few scratches who could open these up a little?

Ermine street, RAF Waddington to ~Nettleham is overgrown. Someone is cutting the grass though :S. I assume the council as it would have to be done with a compact tractor. (what I use for cutting public rights of way). You can get through with a vehicle.. but be ready for some serious nails down chalk board and some scratches that t-cut wont look at. To be honest, if it isn't done before winter, I'll take the flail down and do it myself.

GINGE · May 30, 2014

Larry365 said:
Ermine street, RAF Waddington to ~Nettleham is overgrown. Someone is cutting the grass though :S. I assume the council as it would have to be done with a compact tractor. (what I use for cutting public rights of way). You can get through with a vehicle.. but be ready for some serious nails down chalk board and some scratches that t-cut wont look at. To be honest, if it isn't done before winter, I'll take the flail down and do it myself.

nice offer there, top stuff.

Handy to have access to that kind of kit.

Leebastard · May 30, 2014

tweeted and both MPs and also at the retford times. Articles like this are so damaging, largely because people are idiots and will take everything they read as gospel.

Leebastard · May 30, 2014

darrenaroberts · May 31, 2014

Like most mp's completely out of touch.....

Larry365 · Jun 4, 2014

GINGE said:
nice offer there, top stuff.

Handy to have access to that kind of kit.

Clearing ROW is what I do for a living.. just not in the county I live in

Responsible for about 1000 miles of ROW in various counties. Everything from grass cutting to surface repairs. Can be some seriously good fun and we find some amazing lanes, especially as I am allowed to drive where others aren't

Grim · Jun 4, 2014

Larry365 said:
Clearing ROW is what I do for a living.. just not in the county I live in

Responsible for about 1000 miles of ROW in various counties. Everything from grass cutting to surface repairs. Can be some seriously good fun and we find some amazing lanes, especially as I am allowed to drive where others aren't

If you get a chance to check the lanes around Licolnshire and feel they're driveable, I'd be up for coming along (I may need the names of some nice b&b's though).

Paul D · Jun 4, 2014

We do a few lanes around Retford, Market Rasen, Gainsborough etc etc. All those we do are signed and marked as Byways and are available on Def. maps ..

Admittedly, a few are very rarely driven except by tractors, are never repaired so are nowadays mostly quite deep mud runs ... they're pretty damn good at getting folk stuck ..

The more 'interesting' pics were removed from the thread, but the videos show what a couple of the lanes are like! And just about all are in Lincolnshire .. it's a big place ..

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f13/local-lanes-253692.html

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