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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: TheBoy on 24 March 2008, 20:13:51
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The longest trip I have done in the tractor to date was a few days up in the Lakes.
Below, tractor halfway up Hardknot, with Wrynose Pass right in the background.
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2470.JPG)
Must say, apart from dipstick tube falling off, tractor did the 850 miles without incident and acheived over 39mpg, despite being booted everywhere (including several incidents of loss of rear end traction going up the passes ::))
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Fantastic view...... :y :y :y :y the hills look good too ;D ;D ;D
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Nice view
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Took ages to find a picture that didn't show how cold it was - most of the pictures of the passes show the snow ;D
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We had a picnic in Wrynose Bottom - the flat plateau between Wrynose pass and Hardknot Pass.
Wrynose again in background
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2465.JPG)
With the Outlaws and Mrs TB
(http://images.omegaowners.com/images/theboy/project_tb2/IMG_2464.JPG)
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Some nice pics there :y
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We had a picnic in Wrynose Bottom - the flat plateau between Wrynose pass and Hardknot Pass.
Wrynose again in background
With the Outlaws and Mrs TB
Now I understand, this trip was part of your community service order.....
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wrynose and hardknot are real nice aint they
been on them a few times but in a clapped out mk1 Mondeo estate and the Kia Shuma
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great pictures... spoilt though by purple barge in the way!
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Done that trip many times, Jaime.
When my granddaughter was much younger, she wrote in a holiday report for her school that she had been 'up a rhino's bottom'.
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We had a picnic in Wrynose Bottom - the flat plateau between Wrynose pass and Hardknot Pass.
Wrynose again in background
With the Outlaws and Mrs TB
Now I understand, this trip was part of your community service order.....
It was that, or a short spell at Her Majesty's pleasure, including sharing a shower with Big Winston....
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great pictures... spoilt though by purple barge in the way!
Purposely posted the ones with the car in - this is a car forum ;)
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Nice pics jaime :y
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wrynose and hardknot are real nice aint they
been on them a few times but in a clapped out mk1 Mondeo estate and the Kia Shuma
The Kia Shuma - aint that a sex manual?
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Lovely pics; `though it doesn`t look anywhere near as cold as it must`ve been! ;)
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Up on Honister Pass near Keswick we were treated to a display by presumably the RAF in Eurofighters, blasting up and down the valleys. Jeez those things can turn. At one point, one came within 100yrs of us (we were halfway up a mountain), banks at 90 degrees - you could clearly see pilot. Amazing!
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Up on Honister Pass near Keswick we were treated to a display by presumably the RAF in Eurofighters, blasting up and down the valleys. Jeez those things can turn. At one point, one came within 100yrs of us (we were halfway up a mountain), banks at 90 degrees - you could clearly see pilot. Amazing!
The eurofighters are all post 2001 - wonder what their C02 figure is.
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Up on Honister Pass near Keswick we were treated to a display by presumably the RAF in Eurofighters, blasting up and down the valleys. Jeez those things can turn. At one point, one came within 100yrs of us (we were halfway up a mountain), banks at 90 degrees - you could clearly see pilot. Amazing!
Ahhhhhhhhh......bliss!; `just similar to my home`s area where the F-15`s and Typhoons practice low-flying (daily) at altitudes below that of my valley-side house.....`could sit and watch`em all day :y
What a noise the Eurofighter makes on full afterburners though! :o
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Up on Honister Pass near Keswick we were treated to a display by presumably the RAF in Eurofighters, blasting up and down the valleys. Jeez those things can turn. At one point, one came within 100yrs of us (we were halfway up a mountain), banks at 90 degrees - you could clearly see pilot. Amazing!
Ahhhhhhhhh......bliss!; `just similar to my home`s area where the F-15`s and Typhoons practice low-flying (daily) at altitudes below that of my valley-side house.....`could sit and watch`em all day :y
What a noise the Eurofighter makes on full afterburners though! :o
After the first run, I nearly had to visit the launderette :o (and I don't think it had the afterburners on)...
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Pity the rather things have no truely effective weapons systems yet......fantastic Rolls developed engine though....should be even better if they get the vector thrust working.
I just picture the pilots shaking thier fist at the enemy and shouting 'bugger off'
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Pity the rather things have no truely effective weapons systems yet......fantastic Rolls developed engine though....should be even better if they get the vector thrust working.
I just picture the pilots shaking thier fist at the enemy and shouting 'bugger off'
Aye, obviously 'bugger off' will be said in a very british way, old boy.
Having spent most of my school holidays around Lakenheath and Mildenhall (including the night they bombed Libya), I know fighters are manuoverable, but those eurofighters in the valleys were something else!
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Pity the rather things have no truely effective weapons systems yet......fantastic Rolls developed engine though....should be even better if they get the vector thrust working.
I just picture the pilots shaking thier fist at the enemy and shouting 'bugger off'
Aye, obviously 'bugger off' will be said in a very british way, old boy.
Having spent most of my school holidays around Lakenheath and Mildenhall (including the night they bombed Libya), I know fighters are manuoverable, but those eurofighters in the valleys were something else!
Yes but, unless they can make them an effective strike aircraft then there about as much use as a stunt plane but less manouverable! :y
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Pity the rather things have no truely effective weapons systems yet......fantastic Rolls developed engine though....should be even better if they get the vector thrust working.
I just picture the pilots shaking thier fist at the enemy and shouting 'bugger off'
Aye, obviously 'bugger off' will be said in a very british way, old boy.
Having spent most of my school holidays around Lakenheath and Mildenhall (including the night they bombed Libya), I know fighters are manuoverable, but those eurofighters in the valleys were something else!
Yes but, unless they can make them an effective strike aircraft then there about as much use as a stunt plane but less manouverable! :y
Probably irrelevent, as after the media backlash after Afgan and Iraq and the 'bring our boys home' brigade (forgetting the rights or wrongs of those particular conflicts), I doubt any government will have the gumption to use them in anger anyway, justified or otherwise >:(
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Pity the rather things have no truely effective weapons systems yet......fantastic Rolls developed engine though....should be even better if they get the vector thrust working.
I just picture the pilots shaking thier fist at the enemy and shouting 'bugger off'
Aye, obviously 'bugger off' will be said in a very british way, old boy.
Having spent most of my school holidays around Lakenheath and Mildenhall (including the night they bombed Libya), I know fighters are manuoverable, but those eurofighters in the valleys were something else!
Should have seen the Harriers in the Falklands in 82, now that was AWESOME, that was for real :y
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Not for the first time i know but i adore Cumbria/Northumberland. If i won the lotty a small barn conversion would be fine for me but with plenty of land/outbuildings to put my cars & bikes in. [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
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Not for the first time i know but i adore Cumbria/Northumberland. If i won the lotty a small barn conversion would be fine for me but with plenty of land/outbuildings to put my cars & bikes in. [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
Very nice part of the world. Bit bleak in winter though... ...and everywhere shuts early - we were turned away from a chippy at 8:30 ;D
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Not for the first time i know but i adore Cumbria/Northumberland. If i won the lotty a small barn conversion would be fine for me but with plenty of land/outbuildings to put my cars & bikes in. [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
Very nice part of the world. Bit bleak in winter though... ...and everywhere shuts early - we were turned away from a chippy at 8:30 ;D
Too right.....they dont like people from south of the boarder ;D ;D
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I'm used to that at home/work. Moving from Croydon to Lincolnshire i get called a soft southern shandy swilling poof. Cockney C*nt all the cliche's but it's all in fun. Made some good friends in the 8 years i've been living with a CHEAP mortgage! ;)
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Hmm. Beautiful part of the world. Have done Wrynose Pass in the Omega and the MX5. Must find an excuse to take the Westfield over it. It has a LSD after all. Be rude not to. ;D
Kevin
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Hmm. Beautiful part of the world. Have done Wrynose Pass in the Omega and the MX5. Must find an excuse to take the Westfield over it. It has a LSD after all. Be rude not to. ;D
Kevin
now THAT's tripping :D
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Much of my childhood was split between school at Ardingly in Sussex, and staying with family up on The Lleyn peninsular.
spent a lot of time in my Holidays wandering around snowdonia, getting buzzed by fighters , and also watching them do low level sea approaches,
then got to go to school and watch the larger planes buzz the chapel tower doing bombing run practice on Balcombe viaduct , and reservoir.....
then lived on Anglesey, followed by Colwyn bay
I've got mates stationed at RAF Valley/...
i've got a couple of photos somewhere..... of them flying through "a valley", taking photos of me........ as their "target"
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which was at the time, pretty cool..... & now I think about it, also slightly disturbing ;)
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I remember some years ago that an irate farmer; sick of RAF low level flying around his farm painted "P*ss Off Biggles" in 10 ft. high letters on his barn roof!
However, his plan`s intent slightly backfired as flight-crews repeatedly returned to take pics. and as word spread amongst other squadrons.
;D
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Chuckle chuckle ,