Yes Pete, will be there in the bottom field both days in the rain! Apparently that field hasn’t dried out yet from the rain a month ago!
Pete.
I’ll keep an eye out for you Pete, stationery engine I’m guessing,
I will be there after hours when it’s free entry to show my support for the beer tent
I’ll have a look out for you Pete as for that Punchy Dan it sounds like he will be hedge hopping to gain entry!
I sent you a pm Pete; spent three hours friday afternoon there waiting to be towed onto the site and then asked to be towed off again as there was no way I was going to get onto the field. More folk were leaving than entering, the deluge of rain friday afternoon added to an already waterlogged field that hadn’t dried out from the rain a month or more ago. Traffic was queued for miles on the main road while they attempted to tow trucks, steamers and lowloaders onto the site. Took me and a mate two hours yesterday to clean my van, mud was blocking the rad core, the fuel cooler and was wedged around the brake calipers. Pic here of me being towed by a Major, he couldn’t shift me and got stuck himself!
We had a few ‘lost wheels’ when I worked for Tilcon, we never did find any of them though! The late Mick Foxon phoned in one day from Watford Gap southbound, he had his S50 halfcab Foden almost at full wack in the centre lane when a vibration started so Mick did the obvious thing ( ) and put his foot down even harder until eventually the vibration stopped. He said that he noticed coach passengers waving at him so waved back, then he needed a ‘leak’ so pulled into the services and when he came out noticed that a set of wheels was missing on the fourth axle. Goodness knows where the wheels went, he reckoned he had travelled twenty+ miles without them. We took a hub and wheels down to him and got him on his way again. Bert Weston lost a set as well and he did notice them vanishing across the opposite carriageway and down the bank luckily missing vehicles, we never bothered looking for them though as they would be knackered. I never lost any but had plenty of front wheel studs snap on the last Foden six wheeler I had because it was always overweight on the front axle, I lost three on one wheel at a site near Wigston and came back to the yard very steadily!