Santa Pod Lanes

For anyone considering a jaunt.

Oh bugger.

Oh Cock!

What's up wiv yu's it's only a 3week closure. Most councils would have taken the opportunity to shut em permanently

redhand said:

What's up wiv yu's it's only a 3week closure. Most councils would have taken the opportunity to shut em permanently

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That is true. Doesn't help for tomorrow though.

Any other ideas for tomorrow?

I've sent a text to Spyderman. He always knows of somewhere to go.

We'll just have to go somewhere else tomorrow then.

Have fun laning today? Where did you go?? anyone get stuck?
Would have joined you but I'm in newquay for the long weekend... currently sitting out in the sun having a beer stealing the wifi

Had a great day out, nobody got stuck and the only damage was to CB aerials

Twas a very good day out. Shame about the aerials. Some of those lanes got tight in places. Shame there wasn't more water in the ford.

Furneaux was empty, but we found some good lanes. Drove today without the door tops, I've never been attacked by so much vegetation and bugs. Nobody stuck either.

Spyderman said:

Furneaux was empty, but we found some good lanes. Drove today without the door tops, I've never been attacked by so much vegetation and bugs. Nobody stuck either.

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You should have been where we were then. Did you get my text?

Ryder said:

You should have been where we were then. Did you get my text?

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where is it you got stuck mate.

Hi Glenn,
myself and Ryder went comp safari marshalling. When we finnished we did a lane that swallowed up a disco we were following, whole. I got stuck and it was decided to get out and leave before causing any damage to the lane. Jai

You know, it really gets on ****ing tits that the lanes are closed to two ton vehicles, distributing their weight evenly across four large rubber contact patches, but they remain opn to two ton horses slamming all their weight into the ground on four tiny hooves.

It's admirable that they wish to try and keep the lanes in reasonable condition, but if that is the case then why continue to let horses use the lanes?

Disco Moneypit said:

You know, it really gets on ****ing tits that the lanes are closed to two ton vehicles, distributing their weight evenly across four large rubber contact patches, but they remain opn to two ton horses slamming all their weight into the ground on four tiny hooves.

It's admirable that they wish to try and keep the lanes in reasonable condition, but if that is the case then why continue to let horses use the lanes?

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Unfortunately horses don't wheelspin when they get stuck so they don't really cut up the ground as much as a 4x4 in certain conditions, they don't make deep ruts and they don't run on petrol or diesel, also, you don't get horses going off piste and causing damage where they shouldn't, or at least you-tube isn't full of horse riders going crazy on bridleways and byways. Equestrian activities are preferred to recreational 4x4 use (although horses are actually more dangerous) and so we will lose every time and the fact horses don't wheelspin gives people the excuse to shut lanes to us. That's just my opinion though.

Disco, you wanna see some of the C***s that drive them and destroy them regularly I can quite understand the viewpoint of Glass and whoeverelse. Not that I am a 100% on par with their view points but I can see their arguments and there is nothing we can do about it. Jai

I'd say report the idiots who deliberately damage the lanes but then certain self centered pious selfish groups would just use that as an excuse to tar us all with the same brush.

classic kev said:

Unfortunately horses don't wheelspin when they get stuck so they don't really cut up the ground as much as a 4x4 in certain conditions, they don't make deep ruts and they don't run on petrol or diesel, also, you don't get horses going off piste and causing damage where they shouldn't, or at least you-tube isn't full of horse riders going crazy on bridleways and byways. Equestrian activities are preferred to recreational 4x4 use (although horses are actually more dangerous) and so we will lose every time and the fact horses don't wheelspin gives people the excuse to shut lanes to us. That's just my opinion though.

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Like I've said many times before, if I want to get stuck / muddy, then I'll go to a Pay & Play site. If I want to enjoy a nice quiet drive, enjoying the countryside, then I'll go laning, (and usually by myself or one or two others).

It's a reasonably affulant and rural area where I grew up and where I now find myself living again, so plenty of posh totty who are into their horses, many of whom I have known since childhood, (and my wife is mates with a lot of them).

There aint a single one of them who would even consider for one second not using a lane on horseback if that lane was already in poor condition or muddy and flooded.

I also do a lot of cycling, so I see the damage to bridleways as well as unpaved roads. And round here a lot of the earth is very clayey, which only makes matters worse.

Those on here who 'off road' in cars as well as horses may well be a lot more considerate than those who just ride horses. Maybe folk in other parts of the country are a lot more considerate too. But in my experiance, horses do just as much damage to muddy and flooded lanes as vehicles do.

Basicly, my long winded point is that if a lane is going to be closed to motor vehicles then I think that it should be closed to horse riders as well.