Non agarian visitors

[Tim G]

It must be a national phenomenon, or maybe all these hire/lease/on the knock cars don't have reverse fitted.

Yes definitely a national thing, I drive the length of the country and to be honest driving standards are shocking. The most hilarious incident recently was leaving Jedburgh with a 27t grain drier on the wagon. Met a small (fiesta type) car along the lane who was about 40 yards passed a gateway. He reluctantly decided to reverse back to it but did it on full lock straight into the bank. He then pulled forward and had another go, on the other lock and when straight into the opposite bank. This continued a couple more times before he realised he couldn't do it and then decided to attempt a 49 point turn in the lane and drove back about a mile and a half to the next village before pulling over to let me pass and recover from the whole ordeal.

 

[Osca]

Yes definitely a national thing, I drive the length of the country and to be honest driving standards are shocking. The most hilarious incident recently was leaving Jedburgh with a 27t grain drier on the wagon. Met a small (fiesta type) car along the lane who was about 40 yards passed a gateway. He reluctantly decided to reverse back to it but did it on full lock straight into the bank. He then pulled forward and had another go, on the other lock and when straight into the opposite bank. This continued a couple more times before he realised he couldn't do it and then decided to attempt a 49 point turn in the lane and drove back about a mile and a half to the next village before pulling over to let me pass and recover from the whole ordeal.

Did you not consider reversing yourself and putting him out of his misery?

 

[Lofty1984]

Did you not consider reversing yourself and putting him out of his misery?

Bit harsh considering he was useless at reversing

 

[Osca]

Well, yes, with a 27t grain dryer on the back I suppose Tim could have driven straight forward and done just that... Probably what panicked the poor blighter.

 

[Tim G]

I considered battering him on the head to put him out of his misery! But at 60' long, 11' wide and 16' tall plus a couple of cars behind me, I didn't think it unreasonable to expect him to back up to the nearer passing point.

 

[adzy]

Norfolk is particularly blessed with these drivers. Add in the abundance of hopelessly lost holiday makers in motor homes and Kia Sedonas towing a 6 berth caravan down single track lanes at 40mph round blind bends with weeds growing up the middle, hedges that desperately need a cut and non existent verges, makes trying to take a short cut to work is almost a suicide mission.

 

[Sid]

It has been s difficult month here in the wilds of Norfolk.We have had our invasion of visitors in Disco,Rangerovers, Bentayas,BMW 's etc etc and Audi,s all 4 x 4. They seem to be unable to get onto a dry grass verge to enable passing on our single track roads.Reversing also seems not to be possible in the visitors shiny black 4 x 4's. Is this a nationwide phenomena,or is it just restricted to us Norfolk rural dwellers ?

No most definitely an issue in Devon lanes as well.

 

[Farmer Roy]

err, have you had Agarian visitors ?

The Agarians were an extremely long-lived sentient species that evolved from fungi. They were, in a manner of speaking, sentient mushrooms who could alter their size and the number of their limbs. Although they lacked a visual system, they could smell and hear, feel the movements of the air and the warmth emitted by living organisms, and feel the vibrations given off by all things. They only required a modicum of sunlight to survive, but did not need any oxygen. They traveled through the vacuum of realspace in the form of giant seedlings, searching for worlds fit for colonization. Despite their name, which was only assigned to them by Auric and Rhyssa Graf, they did not originate on the Wild Space planet of Agaris, but settled that world millennia before the reign of the Galactic Empire.[1]

 

[Farfrae]

Is this a nationwide phenomena,or is it just restricted to us Norfolk rural dwellers ?

Nationwide I expect just like the one of farmers and contractors taking massive 4 wheel drive tractors with wide kit behind down unsuitable small rural roads that were originally cart tracks. Smashing down the banks into a muddy mess and ripping the wild flowers out of the banks as they regularly do down my lane. Touché

 

[fieldfarmer]

Nationwide I expect just like the one of farmers and contractors taking massive 4 wheel drive tractors with wide kit behind down unsuitable small rural roads that were originally cart tracks. Smashing down the banks into a muddy mess and ripping the wild flowers out of the banks as they regularly do down my lane. Touché

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That's the problem with fields , the are often found at the end of "rural roads". Can't think why.

 

[joe soapy]

It has been s difficult month here in the wilds of Norfolk.We have had our invasion of visitors in Disco,Rangerovers, Bentayas,BMW 's etc etc and Audi,s all 4 x 4. They seem to be unable to get onto a dry grass verge to enable passing on our single track roads.Reversing also seems not to be possible in the visitors shiny black 4 x 4's. Is this a nationwide phenomena,or is it just restricted to us Norfolk rural dwellers ?

you want to see it out past Peter Tavy or over Widecombe way , we got proper hedges.
now is semi retired i got time fer doing community work,, every car i meet i got the time to allow them to shine up their skill base.
sometimes they gets out of thier car and will come and have a yap, any trouble, i just show em the magic blue badge, wish i got one years ago now.
i gona use it on the tractor next time i needs to go into town

 

[joe soapy]

Nationwide I expect just like the one of farmers and contractors taking massive 4 wheel drive tractors with wide kit behind down unsuitable small rural roads that were originally cart tracks. Smashing down the banks into a muddy mess and ripping the wild flowers out of the banks as they regularly do down my lane. Touché

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get on , no need to do that, hornee just ran 2 wheels on top the hedge when he had to go weir quay.
when i seen him do it, it finally clicked into place

 

[primmiemoo]

Thanks to a slapdash resurfacing job several years ago, the local unclassified council road is higher than it was.
Add in the bodged job of drainage maintenance carried out by the lowest tendering digger outfit, and it now has deeply vertiginous drops from the road shoulders as well.

If I weren't too busy, I'd put in a little request for a road diversion from a main road through, set up some cameras, and make some pocket money posting hilarious footage of the ensuing fun on social media.
It's surprising how few of the local tractor drivers are sufficiently in control of their ego and/or vehicle to reverse (that's without any implement on the back), tbh, so there'd be extra hilarity with caravans and motorhomes involved.