300tdistu
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300tdistu
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looking at the vid no reason for the tree to come down :doh:
kids in land rovers destroying the country side for school :doh::doh:
thick as **** and need to learn to drive :crazy:
Freediscoranger
Active Member
didnt realise doing two years to do maths physics and economics A-levels to get on to do a engineering degree at a top university made me thick as ****. should probably re-think my future then
and i wasnt even on that trip
top-cat
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so with all those a levels and degrees you couldnt calculate that you could have driven through there sideways and still had room to avoid the tree.didnt realise doing two years to do maths physics and economics A-levels to get on to do a engineering degree at a top university made me thick as ****. should probably re-think my future then
and i wasnt even on that trip
It seemed to me, and others by the look of things that you needlessley cut down a tree only to drive 6 foot and turn arround.
Total disregard for the surroundings, so yes on that scale id be rethinking my future. Cattering maybe
Langers
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:doh::doh::doh:didnt realise doing two years to do maths physics and economics A-levels to get on to do a engineering degree at a top university made me thick as ****. should probably re-think my future then
and i wasnt even on that trip
^^^ What he said.
The greenlane (which should by law be maintained by the council, as a public right of way) had obviously been neglected for years. The tree had grown right in the centre -- instead of veering off the legal right of way, we exercised our legal right of clearing it and turned around when it got too overgrown.
NRS91
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listen smart arse there was no way 6 trucks (the max allowed by the greenlane code) were goin to reverse all the way down that track safely
and even a diahatsu wouldnt fit through that gap with the tree there... it was tight enough in the 90 with the tree out of the way!
we didnt do any uneccessary damage to the lane and we were driving carefully...
i dont like your tone or your arrogant belittling of some qualified engineers... we didnt want to cut and bend the tree out of the way but it was across the path at windscreen height.
EDIT: also trying to go up the steep bank side to avoid the tree would have seen the roof get damaged or the vehicle to tip!
Freediscoranger
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probably need to fetch your glasses and draw your attention to the last line of me previous post :doh:
top-cat
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What? That you werent there. Neither was i but how do you suppose a comment reveiling the time spent at a "top University" gives reason for cutting a tree down without reason???
NRS91
Active Member
ill refer you to mine and langers previous posts
Freediscoranger
Active Member
then refer to langer's post. there was no room to turn around and they had to to prevent damage to the lane in trying to get through somewhere they couldnt. so they exercised the legal right to clear a public by-way to make it "passable" to turn around instead of cutting up the areas around it which werent by-way.
plus... "gives reason for cutting a tree down without reason???" it doesnt. cos i wasnt there:doh::doh::doh::doh:
plus... "gives reason for cutting a tree down without reason???" it doesnt. cos i wasnt there:doh::doh::doh::doh:
Langers
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:hysterically_laughi criminal damage :hysterically_laughi
Langers
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Without being there, and from glancing at a video uploaded onto the internet, they've formed their own conclusions and have now deployed the tactical blinkers which completely block out any of our replies
Pikey
Dummy Ejection Facilitator..
The tree wasn't yours was it?? therefore you have damaged someone else's property hence a criminal act.
I won't ask why you didn't check the route by walking it. and stop the vehicles, once it became obvious that the lane was too overgrown to drive. Because that would require a modicum of commonsense. Which as everyone knows Students just don't possess..
NRS91
Active Member
The tree wasn't yours was it?? therefore you have damaged someone else's property hence a criminal act.
I won't ask why you didn't check the route by walking it. and stop the vehicles, once it became obvious that the lane was too overgrown to drive. Because that would require a modicum of commonsense. Which as everyone knows Students just don't possess..
the lane was drivable up until that point and was fairly long
we did what any greenlane party would have done... its just because we are university students youve assumed that were in the wrong from a short youtube video that basically shows a greenlane obstruction being cleared and without any prior knowledge of the lane etc
even if we had sent a scout vehicle it would of been too dangerous to have reversed back due to the gradient (which was hard enough to walk up)
nrgserv
Well-Known Member
whats the tractive effort on a decend surface?
would be interesting to see the results from the tarmac car park,
especially with the tyres on the 110.
then again with standard tyres on all.
what was the strain guage rated to?
edit
appears while i was watchin the vids then posting, a few comments have arrived.
though i thought it was ok to "trim" a lane to allow passage, as red said, use a modicum of common sense.
edit them bits before it goes on the net for all to see....
(imo it did look unnecersary, but wasnt gonna say that originally, an i wasnt there.)
would be interesting to see the results from the tarmac car park,
especially with the tyres on the 110.
then again with standard tyres on all.
what was the strain guage rated to?
edit
appears while i was watchin the vids then posting, a few comments have arrived.
though i thought it was ok to "trim" a lane to allow passage, as red said, use a modicum of common sense.
edit them bits before it goes on the net for all to see....
(imo it did look unnecersary, but wasnt gonna say that originally, an i wasnt there.)
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Langers
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The tree wasn't yours was it?? therefore you have damaged someone else's property hence a criminal act.
I won't ask why you didn't check the route by walking it. and stop the vehicles, once it became obvious that the lane was too overgrown to drive. Because that would require a modicum of commonsense. Which as everyone knows Students just don't possess..
It is a LEGAL RIGHT of anyone to clear a public right of way of obstructions. That tree was not owned by any private land owner, since it was growing squarely in the middle of the lane. If anything, we were doing a service and doing the council's job for them...
If a tree fell onto the M6 and I was to drag it out of the way, would that be criminal damage? Would it hell!!
