So did anyone else get stuck over Easter ? (1 Viewer)

[G1969]

Well I did, first time in 19years, really underestimated how wet and soggy the grass was and how heavy our motorhome was, lesson learned !!
but thanks to a fellow funster DavidG58 and others on the site, managed to get out.

Here’s the aftermath

 

[Nanniemate]

Well I did, first time in 19years, really underestimated how wet and soggy the grass was and how heavy our motorhome was, lesson learned !!
but thanks to a fellow funster DavidG58 and others on the site, managed to get out.

Here’s the aftermath
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Thank goodness that's not Quackers

 

[WESTY66]

Thank goodness that's not Quackers

Oh I’ve left one of those at Quackers and left the elsan lid up
I think they’ve forgiven me

 

[Nanniemate]

Oh I’ve left one of those at Quackers and left the elsan lid up
I think they’ve forgiven me

You must be banned then they just not told you

 

[Quackers]

All I can say is phew.
Just checked the rally list to make sure who is on the list for this weekend.
Easter really was soggy here at Woodside Field, luckily we have had high winds this last week and dried the field out.

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[WESTY66]

You must be banned then they just not told you

They was very understanding, as I rang them just before torrential
Rain filled the tank

I have to say it was a few years ago

 

[Figaro]

No, I had planned to go somewhere last week but the weather forecast put me off.
Same as this week
Hoping for something better in the weather next week

 

[DavidG58]

It was indeed an impressive level of stuckness and tow off

Nice to meet you

 

[Quackers]

One pitch left at this weekends rally. Odly we have a heatwave forecasted this weekend in Old Sodbury.

 

[Richard n Ann]

This is the mess we left behind 14th April last year at Olivers Mount we arrived after the other vans and had to get towed to our pitch with a JCB Telelifter... So actually I can't take credit for most of the mess, it was the JCBs wheels

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[St3v3]

7.5t

 

[St3v3]

Doesn't do it justice lol

 

[jdk62]

Given the extent of rain and already saturated ground around the country, it’s hardly surprising that people got stuck…

 

[GMLS]

Invested in some of these a few years ago and been brilliant

 

[GMLS]

Not as much fun as this though

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[JRT]

We are currently on a nice CL in the dales, five hard standing pitches which are firm as you would expect but as soon as you go onto grass it's very very soft and cuts up very easily. Hence I used the mover to pitch the van as using the car would have meant going on grass.

Easter weekend somebody pitched up in a MH and insisted on pitching on the grassed area rather than one of the hard standings.

The evidence of him getting stuck remains. Why give yourself the chew when it's completely avoidable?

 

[Brains]

Not as much fun as this thoughView attachment 884229

Funny, however If that was my tent, the idiot driver would be getting a large invoice or a hefty insurance claim.

 

[Two on Tour]

Invested in some of these a few years ago and been brilliant

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Same here, there are a few Funsters that are grateful that I bought some.

 

[WESTY66]

Invested in some of these a few years ago and been brilliant

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Me too, but I got the big 50mm version, a bit overkill! The 25mm ones would have done £54

To make matters worse just after that, my firm bought 20 big sheets of the same stuff to cut down to make walkways, if only I had waited

 

[scotjimland]

Invested in some of these a few years ago and been brilliant

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ditto .. top job

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[scotjimland]

a MH and insisted on pitching on the grassed area

there is always a knob

 

[Spriddler]

Hardly surprising that many sites have closed as according to last night's News it was the wettest (and warmest) March ever recorded.

 

[Davecrawf]

Well I did, first time in 19years, really underestimated how wet and soggy the grass was and how heavy our motorhome was, lesson learned !!
but thanks to a fellow funster DavidG58 and others on the site, managed to get out.

Here’s the aftermath
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Not Easter, but January in France, on our way to Spain for the winter. I managed to use my new snow chain thingies to quite good effect.

 

[MichelleRyall]

Not us but the big truck who changed his mind next to us at motocross. He has to wait until the next afternoon, after racing to be towed out. The pits were full so he couldn’t be moved. Ironically he had parked perfectly then decided to move. Schoolboy error. His back end was stuck even further in.

 

[scotzsue]

Invested in some of these a few years ago and been brilliant

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yes we had some, not that make though, now discarded as the same width as the wheels so up to the axle with ours underneath.
Somehow managed to get out with a lot of brute force behind the van. Now have wider ones, not had to use in earnest. Got cut down breadboards somewhere too.

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[Snowflakes]

We were away over Easter, only local to us, but on the grass pitch opposite, which we had been told was far too wet, Mr. and Mrs, Pratt turned up and insisted they wanted the grass pitch as they had a caravan and stabilisers.
It started off with their two Spaniels running loose all over the pitch and even into our unit, then off they went to another pitch to empty out, i mentioned this too the woman who replied they have to go somewhere, they then thought they were on a fully serviced pitch and hooked up to the communal water supply, it goes on.
However after a day we noticed the legs were not to be seen, the wheels were below the axle and the jockey wheel was down to the A frame, I actually laughed, my wife thought I was having a fit. They decided to leave on the Easter Monday,, early in the morning they were preparing to go, but somehow they were totally stuck, their 4+4 could not even budge it.
They asked the site owners to help, Owners said that they were warned and they only had a buggy that was not big enough to pull them out. The end is that at 1500hrs a local farmer turned up to pull them out with his tractor, at a cost of £100 take it or leave it, they left the site with a very muddy caravan at around 1700 hrs, and lighter in the pocket. They Walk among us?

 

[Zebede4500]

Stuck in the Cotswolds over Easter. Weather acceptable but site "it drains very quickly" didn't. Now purchased tow rope to keep in van, thanks goodness son was with us with his Land Rover or we would still be there.

 

[oldiesontour]

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We were away over Easter, only local to us, but on the grass pitch opposite, which we had been told was far too wet, Mr. and Mrs, Pratt turned up and insisted they wanted the grass pitch as they had a caravan and stabilisers.
It started off with their two Spaniels running loose all over the pitch and even into our unit, then off they went to another pitch to empty out, i mentioned this too the woman who replied they have to go somewhere, they then thought they were on a fully serviced pitch and hooked up to the communal water supply, it goes on.
However after a day we noticed the legs were not to be seen, the wheels were below the axle and the jockey wheel was down to the A frame, I actually laughed, my wife thought I was having a fit. They decided to leave on the Easter Monday,, early in the morning they were preparing to go, but somehow they were totally stuck, their 4+4 could not even budge it.
They asked the site owners to help, Owners said that they were warned and they only had a buggy that was not big enough to pull them out. The end is that at 1500hrs a local farmer turned up to pull them out with his tractor, at a cost of £100 take it or leave it, they left the site with a very muddy caravan at around 1700 hrs, and lighter in the pocket. They Walk among us?

Having owned a cl for years seen plenty of Mr & Mrs .Prats.(tell them don't go on the grass ,next thing knock at door "we're stuck you'll have to give us a tow"..No I won't get onto a recovery firm! (Several land rovers and a tractor sat in shed).Had one mid winter followed sat nav down a drive tried to turn around in a deep ploughed wet field car and caravan sat on floor pans ! But my fault because My site wasn't where his sat nav said it should be !!!
Cost him dearly 16t wrecker and long winch cable dragged him around 200 meters across field must have taken hours.(not that I would know too busy sat in nice warm lounge with a brandy laughing )He never did make it to the site,,a nights pitch feels lost o well such is life

 

[EuroTrotters]

Well I did, first time in 19years, really underestimated how wet and soggy the grass was and how heavy our motorhome was, lesson learned !!
but thanks to a fellow funster DavidG58 and others on the site, managed to get out.

Here’s the aftermath
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Go on, show us your tyres

 

[Tonks]

Stuck in the Cotswolds over Easter. Weather acceptable but site "it drains very quickly" didn't. Now purchased tow rope to keep in van, thanks goodness son was with us with his Land Rover or we would still be there.

I've always carried a tow rope. I've seen the bits of string some call tow ropes being used to pull people out, and decided I wanted to be sure if that was me, I'd know the rope wouldn't snap. The only time I've used it (so far!) is to pull another van out which had got stuck on soft grass. I was on gravel so even though my van was smaller than theirs mine had the purchase to help pull the other one out. And I managed not to pepper the front of it with gravel, too...

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