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You can't have been at Peterborough show in 2012 ( or was it 2013? ) then!
AND, 2002/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11? I cannot remember when Peterborough wasn't wet?You can't have been at Peterborough show in 2012 ( or was it 2013? ) then!
What a brilliant reply! We got stuck on new years eve at the station at ribblehead, We only got our van in september and didnt realise it was front wheel drive, I did manage to rock back and forth and after 30 mins managed to get un stuck! what i didnt realise that lots of other motorhomes had been watching it all, lots of the girls commented later in the pub, but no blokes , No idea why?This has worked very well for me on the occasions I have bogged ours down. Frankly nothing is going to help better than this. Make sure you have a good supply of beer in the van.
But why I hear you ask!
Well, when you get stuck, walk around the site and locate someone who owns a Landrover Discovery, or even better a Defender. Ask them nicely if they would mind freeing you up, whilst holding 4 cans of said beer in your hands. Works every time.
The last time we got bogged was on the camping field at the Spa grand prix. We had our breakfast whilst watching many motorhome owners launching anti slip mats and bread trays around the field with their front wheels. The nice gent in the Discovery had us out in a jiffy
The pulling power of the Defender is unbelievable! I have watched one pull an HGV up an icy slope when we had the heavy snow a few years back.Don't you just hate those clever dicks in 4WD's
I got stuck in a field, in a car, towing a loaded car transporter, the Landrover driver couldn't wait to help me out
'Shall I disconnect the trailer?' I asked, tentatively
'No don't bother it will come out as one',
It did........
mmmmmm......... nobody likes a clever dick
[only joking
I have seen worse over the years at regional rallies and some campsites
No, couple of years ago now. But Monday morning is always amusing
Icantremember.........being there. Actually I was fibbing. A few years ago, before we moved down to Cornwall I phoned Henry's on the Lizard. It was January and he has always said, if you ring up I will open even if there is no-one else there. I did, he did, and he put us on a pitch halfway down the site, level, but definitely uphill to get off the site. It being Cornwall, it rained. Three days later when I tried to drive off the pitch I couldn't get any traction. He came down with his old trusty Landy, hitched us up and tried several times to pull us off, but ours is a 4 tonne van and it was only after three or four attempts, with me keeping the van in low gear and the engine just turning over that we managed between us. That, I swear, is my only "mud moment". The funniest one I ever saw though was a few years back at a site just north of York. We were pitched on hard-standing around a central grass area. It was very wet. One afternoon a big Autotrail came into the site and to my surprise drove straight into the middle of the grass area, and promptly got stuck. The driver revved the nuts off the engine and only succeeded in digging in, until the front wheels were half under the mud. He jumped out, swore, kicked the bumper and looked around. He was a young lad and explained he had borrowed the van from his father in law and is was his first time out. He knew the water tank was empty, had spotted a tap on the grass and thought it made sense to park next to it! The site owner brought his tractor and with the lad at the van wheel and his mates pushing behind, got free, splattering the pushers in mud in the process. The grass area. Looked like the Somme and probably still bears the scars.You can't have been at Peterborough show in 2012 ( or was it 2013? ) then!
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