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doug9270 · Powermonger!!

Lane clearing in the Trail Mag

TTR · Powermonger!!

and a nice pic that Hamster took of Clarkey on the front cover biggrin

L'orange · Devon's Best

He aint a bad looking lad for a northener.

jt · Powermonger!!

Shame the pictures are 'vertically compressed' and 'horzontally expanded' as it makes me look far far chubbier than I (think) I am...... hmm

......good job Pearcy wern't there or he'd look like a 'weeble' or summat....

Of course we shall now be charging for any signatures and 'appearances' as we is now celebs.... biggrin

.......look out Austin Vince and co.....The Life and Times of a Lane Clearer by Whacky.....Me, Doug and the Bush by Steve.......The Tale of me, Gruff and a big Chopper By JT.......Books first of course and then just watch those bucks roll in as they want to buy the rights for the films.....ah yes I can see it all now...... yawn

.......we won't be able to walk round tescos without being 'accosted' by adoring hordes of Hello magazine readers and the alike.....

Oh, must go my agent is on the phone!

jt · Powermonger!!

Back now - just some dude selling double glazing........

Anyways if you see me Sunday and bring your trail mag I'll sign it for £5 a pop - limited offer before the film comes out and I hit the A list... biggrin

Pearcy · Expert

Can't believe it JT - your famous now "outside" of your Teletubbie suit. biggrin

With all that extra cash, you will be able to afford to ride your KTM not just go lane clearing to collect parts for it! biggrin

gaschef · Devon's Best

Pearcy wrote:

Can't believe it JT - your famous now "outside" of your Teletubbie suit.

With all that extra cash, you will be able to afford to ride your KTM not just go lane clearing to collect parts for it!

Just wait till your ankle is healed, you will once again be the first person to get stuck on a newly opened lane,

Better still come round and let the new land shark have a chew on your plaster, she needs something to sharpen her puppy teeth on

jt · Powermonger!!

Shhhh!

Wacky thinks I do it cause I wants to help clear the lanes not just cause i is rummaging for bits.....that was our little (ooops sorry) small.....(bugger, sorry again mate).....er......um............tiny......(oh hell, really trying to be PC about this mate)........Secret.....

Hoops · Elite

TTR wrote:

and a nice pic that Hamster took of Clarkey on the front cover

Ha! Thought it was too!

Torr · Expert

What are the guidelines for Lane Clearing.... some over this dark and dangerous yuppie ridden western edge of South Hams need serious Wackmeistering............. I mean TOTALLY overgrown and deliberately hedged and treed in!

Well done you lot ... made for some good reading !!!!

L'orange · Devon's Best

Dave, pick yer lane and let the wacky man know, lets do it!

Torr · Expert

Well its got to be 202- 059 and the bottom end of 202-058
Seem to have made some headway on the legality of the top farm end of 059 with DCC Row saying they may clear it for width suitable to transverse on foot.
Maybe when the lanes in the east of Devon are all cleared, legally and arbourally, a concerted effort could get these little wes tby southwest, south Devon delights back in use?

-- Edited by Torr on Saturday 21st of August 2010 10:37:43 PM

L'orange · Devon's Best

202-059 i know it well, its the sharp left whilst going up hill on 202-060, didn't know there was a problem seem to remember it was cleared/flayeled end of last year.

And i can find 202-058.

Either way i'm pretty sure Wacky will be up for it, I was of the understanding that he's had no real requests for help down here, so lets go for it eh?

Pete · Devon's Best

201-059 is what was meant I'm sure.
This is a cracking rather technical climb where the bottom hundred yards is unrecorded and is a streambed running parrallel to a footpath.Further on up the UCR a chickenwire fence at the lower end and a large earth bank at the top enclose a short section of thick undergrowth preventing through passage along what is a very interesting ascent up a series of wet steps as the stream flows almost the entire length of the lane.
Not for novices by any means and certainly on a par with 192-235/265.
A worthy candidate for attention in my opinion.
However we may not need to do anything if the Public Rights of Way Warden for
Area South Highway Management Peter Guy is as good as his word in his reply to the member who complained.
"I will investigate your report that the route is blocked and try to get it opened up to pedestrians at least."

Torr · Expert

Sorry 201-059

I suffer from dyslexia and dysphragia quite badly

5 x 9 = 54 etc etc!!

059 is a bute of a lane and links up with two other unsurfaced roads that are legal, the remainder of 059 parallel to the railway embankment, and a sharp turn right under a railway bridge up hill B**** Lane ??????, marked as Unsuitable for Motor Vehicles... although the pikeys may have taken the sign for scrap...... and back up a tarmacked bit back onto the main Plymouth to Modbury turnpike.
The old caravan and utaxed Transit van now no longer are blocking the top entrance (Thanks Plod!!!) The B* lane has no TRF number 201- ???

201-058 is not particulary stunning.... ALS has ridden it a few times and says it is a dead end into a field, however at the last attempt by me earlier this year I was thwarted by dumped rubble and trees deliberately felled into the lane,... as in 059, ..........My CRF does not have a chain saw attachment!!!

However the maps show the lane going all the way down to the banks of the Yealm, and this would be ideal for launching canoes... access to the Yealm is also very contencious as the rediculously wealthy and incredibly selfish land owners around the estuary perimeter desparately want to keep the rightfull owners of this green and pleasant of ours land OUT!!!

The National Trust have recently aquired Wembury Woods... but access is restricted to walkers only.

Every foot of Row for our use must be treasured... thats one reason why i support the TRF

Crikey thats almost a RANT!!!!