Coffeelandy

Coffeelandy

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I'm using my 110 for work, on a beach, Polzeath in Cornwall. The sand is very firm and I won't be offroading as such, just driving across the beach selling coffee and not wading in the sea. I'm getting it waxoiled first, of course. At the end of the day I plan to drive up the shallow stream on the beach to give it a wash off.Is this going to work or should I jet wash underneath instead?
 
Does a byway run along the stream bed?? If not then stay the fook out of it.. and just hose it down when you get home. as a jetwash will just blast the waxoil off.
 
When I was very young I saw an ice cream lorry delivering to the Surfside beach café get bogged down on Polzeath beach. So the sand isn't hard all the time. I offered to eat the ice cream and reduce the weight but the man seemed to have other things on his mind. You've got to drive through the stream to get to the café anyway, so it's hard to stay out of.

Yup, wash with water on getting home. As well as Waxoyl on the outside of the chassis make sure there's something on the inside too. The salt will be hard at work inside the box sections otherwise. If the Waxoyl comes off with as pressure washer it must be a pretty poor job to begin with, if I may say so. My chassis gets a brisk once over with the pressure washer every week or two and the Dinitrol I put on two years ago is still as good as new. If a pressure washer can take it off, it probably needs re-doing anyway!
 
not sure putting waxoyl on would be appreciated by the locals

if you start leaving oily residue on the beach you might not be quite so welcome.
 
In my childhood there was quite a bit of oily residue on Polzeath beach at the best of times. I used to put it down to oil tanker disasters and shipping waste. But perhaps it was people Waxoyling their Ford Prefects and Morris Minors.
 
Brown said:
In my childhood there was quite a bit of oily residue on Polzeath beach at the best of times. I used to put it down to oil tanker disasters and shipping waste. But perhaps it was people Waxoyling their Ford Prefects and Morris Minors.
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Those pesky morris owners :mad:
 
I have to cross the stream everyday to get to my spot and sometimes drive up and down it, as does Roy the icecream man because the sodding kids build trenches and holes. Over Easter we were both surrounded by trenches and spent 2 hours digging our way out.
My Piggio Ape doesn't like the beach hence the 110. There are soft spots by the way but mostly firm. Ok so a stream dash will help but ideally a hose down rather than jet wash.
If i get one of those weed killer spray things that you have to pressurise yourself will that suit, then the wagon will dry off on the way home?
 
vilguy said:
not sure putting waxoyl on would be appreciated by the locals

if you start leaving oily residue on the beach you might not be quite so welcome.
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As it's a Defender won't it already be leaving oily deposits from the diffs, engine and transmission? If it don't leak then there's no oil in it:eek:
 
Coffeelandy said:
I have to cross the stream everyday to get to my spot and sometimes drive up and down it, as does Roy the icecream man because the sodding kids build trenches and holes. Over Easter we were both surrounded by trenches and spent 2 hours digging our way out.
My Piggio Ape doesn't like the beach hence the 110. There are soft spots by the way but mostly firm. Ok so a stream dash will help but ideally a hose down rather than jet wash.
If i get one of those weed killer spray things that you have to pressurise yourself will that suit, then the wagon will dry off on the way home?
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you can buy 12v pumps or some weird winches have them on
 
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Spraying with a garden sprayer seems a bit fiddly. A hosepipe when you get home will be a little more convenient surely?
 
I dont think his name is Shirley ? If you are going anywhere near a salty environment
you need to give everywhere a good hosing off , as birmabright doesn't like it either . IIRC there is a salt passivising chemical additive available, cant remember its name .
Take it you are lowering your tyre pressures for the beach work ?
 
If it was me, I'd try and speak to the nearest lifeboat station that launches off the beach. They hose down the tractor and trailer after a launch, but do they do anything else?
 
I would skip the wax oil,and paint the chassis with the 3 stage POR15, makes the chassis easier to wash down and reapply instead of dirty old wax oil which can hold moisture against the steel once it starts to break down.
 
I would of thought wouldn't matter if you drove it about on sand or not cus the wind will be blowing the sand and salt all over it.
Used to do a fair bit of kiting with a t5 I had got back one day and the Mrs had left the sliding door open cus it was warm couldn't see the bloody floor for sand.
 
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