North wales pig lane revisited weekend 27th feb

johnlad said:

Just got back, thanks guys for a great weekend, both days good and good company, but after the rain then snow on Sunday the lane only got tougher, but we all lived to fight it another day

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glad u got home safe john. thanks for doing most of the ploughing. look forward to seeing you again at the next one

some pic's as requested including me losing my roof rack again. still editing video although i see innzey's change'd his profile pic to one of the lane

and some more pic's including battle damage

Leading a group up that way next week might have a look at this lane any advice?

steve999 said:

Leading a group up that way next week might have a look at this lane any advice?

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unless your all got winches fitted with locking diffs and above 37" tyres your gonna struggle with the boggy section

steve999 said:

Leading a group up that way next week might have a look at this lane any advice?

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advice. ha

dont bother with the rest of the weekend, just tackle this lane, it'll keep you busy

joking apart, the first boggy section is ridiculous

all vehicles need floatation tyres fitted to make any sensible progress, and its 99% winching motion

im gonna have to backfill the hole that john made back in before trying to get through it

im reasonaby confident with more knowledge now and revised tactics/route i'll be able to make sensible progress through the first section

ideally i'd like mike my chainsaw mate in attendance for trimming stumps in the path we have chosen

steve, i wouldnt go up there without someone who has been up it before, and you need 300ft, ideally 350/400, of extension line minimum between you

cheers

im strongly thinking about taking some turfing boards for bridging bog holes

Mr Noisy said:

im strongly thinking about taking some turfing boards for bridging bog holes

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sounds like the beginnings of a plan, keep me informed, lol

Thanks boys best left alone this time but defo Nort trip!!

I think I recognise that lane. Pretty sure there were some photo's in LRO back in the day of Tim Webster winching the old LRO 90 through the bog. IIRC, he called the lane 5 mile Island (or something similar).

i,ve been up a couple of times with my night work being a bit slow at the moment i,ve used where john finished plowing to start a drainage channel to one side. i,ve also open'd up a drainage channel at the bottom section, i've also towed a log so far along the track. plan is to place in that section that keeps on battering everybodys roofs.
but at the moment it is very wet up there. so pig lane is still undefeated so its record still holds 15 years. plus somebody's gone and got his tratter stuck up there.

SteveT247 said:

I think I recognise that lane. Pretty sure there were some photo's in LRO back in the day of Tim Webster winching the old LRO 90 through the bog. IIRC, he called the lane 5 mile Island (or something similar).

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i,ll have a look through some old lro stuff see if its the same place and let you know

Cool. I still have most of his articles (bloke was a legend) but don't think I have that one.

pig lane is drying out slowly for those of you who would like another crack at it i,m proposing a long weekend at the end of june so watch for dates

I'm buying a new spade for that weekend

shout out then those that are happy for the last weekend in june then
so far
disco924
johnlad
danny
stenova

Provisional for me, got to check dates if available

dizzytim said:

Provisional for me, got to check dates if available

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your welcome mate put yourself down as tbc

right junes dates for pig lane will be friday the 26th june to monday the 29th june its wild camping weekend so basha's,pop tents as you don't want to be driveing back out of these lanes to where ever you've booked. recommened, each to bring a bag of logs, i,ve got a huge pig joint on order with those sausage's you like'd john,
this will be a whole weekend job meeting up friday evening, afternoon to do some more gentle stuff on saturday then onto pig lane sunday/monday to give us enough time to get over the lane & do lane maintenance where needed. (also required strops, shackles, ropes, hilifts, saws, good boots, wellies, land anchors,)if you want to know what your on read the earlier pages.