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Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:23 pm
by palmer
Hi guys i read on hear that you meet up a lot to go on off roading days and weekends at pay and play sites. I work down a gravel pit and have built my own off road coarse and im up for getting a load of muddy sj's down for a bit of off roading. The pit is just outside of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk which is sort of mid england to the east a bit, let me know if anyones up for it or has any idears as to make this happen :rhino:

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:13 pm
by dan_2k_uk
Sounds good. U got any pics or a description of the course?

Also :welcome:

Dan

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:58 pm
by Rjmaas512
Just down the road from me :).

Sometime during the summer I could make to come down to the course :D

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:34 am
by palmer
dan_2k_uk wrote:Sounds good. U got any pics or a description of the course?

Also :welcome:

Dan
Hi dan i will put some pictures up this week of the site, large parts of the coarse are where we have just driven through the big heaps of mud and stone which have lead to some good tracks being mad which is more fun sometimes lol. I have made a couple of sections myself and we have a water section which is good. The pit is about 40 acres in size and there are plenty of tracks so people can go off and explore. The pit runs beside the a14 so it is easy to get to, i will sort out some pics but its chucking it down at the mo so they will have to wait.

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:44 pm
by lazy rambler
Not too far from me either, a few more of us in the East of England now. I work in a gravel pit too, office based though, but when my SJ is working I get to take it out, even have a bit of wood to thrash about in. Up by Cromer. Don't know if they'd be too happy if it was more that just me.

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:53 pm
by palmer
lazy rambler wrote:Not too far from me either, a few more of us in the East of England now. I work in a gravel pit too, office based though, but when my SJ is working I get to take it out, even have a bit of wood to thrash about in. Up by Cromer. Don't know if they'd be too happy if it was more that just me.
Hi mate my boss is ok with 4x4, we have the suffolk 4x4 club use the site a couple of times a year and we also have a 4x4 trainer use the site to do his training, the boss is also my father in law so he lets me do as i please as long as im sensible lol, would be good to get a load of us together.. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:05 pm
by lazy rambler
I work for RG Carter, they're H&S mad. I'm not allowed out in it if anyone from high up in the company is about. A few years ago, way before I worked there, a guy crashed his 4x4 in to a gravel pile (the highest point in Norfolk at the time) and it collapsed on top of him.

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:20 pm
by palmer
lazy rambler wrote:I work for RG Carter, they're H&S mad. I'm not allowed out in it if anyone from high up in the company is about. A few years ago, way before I worked there, a guy crashed his 4x4 in to a gravel pile (the highest point in Norfolk at the time) and it collapsed on top of him.
Bloody hell !!!!, thats not good. Our pit is called Ticehurst Gravels and is proberly not as big as your pit, there is only me and my father in law who work there so h&s is not as strict but i know what you mean.

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:31 pm
by palmer
palmer wrote:Hi guys i read on hear that you meet up a lot to go on off roading days and weekends at pay and play sites. I work down a gravel pit and have built my own off road coarse and im up for getting a load of muddy sj's down for a bit of off roading. The pit is just outside of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk which is sort of mid england to the east a bit, let me know if anyones up for it or has any idears as to make this happen :rhino:
Here are some pics, i will put some more up this week.

Re: Check out my gravel pit!!!

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:38 pm
by dunnin21
looks like fun that m8