Picnic in the woods May 2010 REVIEW>>>>

[gregster]

Wotcha Foggers...

Just walked through the door ...bleedin knackered!!!

But was worth it.....A blinding day/weekend....thanks to everyone who came and made it such a success...

Will sort a proper post later...have 2 fronties outside the house that need unloading!

Please post your comments and piccies and vids ere guys....


Thanks again for your support...you made it a brill day!!!

[davetheraveuk]

nice to meet you all great day out

[Random Ross]

Brilliant day guys!! Best fun had in ages!!

Just got back and looked through piccys and vids, (will get them loaded as soon as can work out how to do it)!

Got my first battle scars now, not as good as djsarge`s though! and maybe only 3 wheel drive, but was well worth it!

Was suprised at just how little time had to spend on a rope(thanks Jim for assistance when required and the guided tour at the start)!

thanks to everyone who made me and me little bro feel so welcome!! Will definatly be back for another go!

[hobsey]

I just want to thank everyone for for welcoming myself and Dena (the other half) in to the club.

The welcome we had was superb.

I want to thank everyone who gave me the confidence talk in taking my factory fresh truck out off roading on road tyres, if it wasnt for that chat I proberly would have done some serious damage.

Many thanks again from both of us, great day out.

See you soon.

P.S. Thanks to Jim for taking me out for a couple of hours in the shorty, great fun.

Pics to follow.

[davetheraveuk]

Great day out and nice to meet you all
A few pics i took

[Krusher]

Great day today, excellent weather, food, fun and company. Huge back pat for Greg and Sal for their now legendary commitment and
efforts in ensuring max enjoyment and equally max safety. Big turnout today probably one of the largest so far. Also to 2Stuck Steve and
Jimbo Wilberforce for the outstanding BBQing, No mean feat concidering the numbers in attendance today. Was great to see some new faces
today and hopefully will have given them a taste of the our SE hospitallity and encourage them to come back again.......

I didnt get hardly any pics this time was far to busy having an absolute ball, but heres a couple of what I did get...









See you all hopefully soon.......

[BadBoy]

Will leave any write up to Greg (because he's so good at them), but from a personal point, I had a fantastic day in my new 2.8SWB. I didn't bust anything , and it didn't miss a beat all day. Just wish I'd bought a 2.8 3 years ago

My offering of pics and vids for the day.





I do feel sorry for Louis though, his range rover got a bit hot








Unfortunately youtube has rejected the 4th video due to it's size.
I will edit and upload it on Monday evening as it's getting late now

[mapracing]

Just to say what a great day well done to greg and sal for yet another well organised day
i will try and sort out some pics/vids but sorry to say i missed recording steve (2much) smashing his rear window in true style sorry steve (just to remind you if i havn't already don't forget the DIFF delivery) what a great turnout and great weather and barbie nice to see new and old faces.
locked front diff did well climbed most things without even spining

[2much]

Great day out, glad it didnt fall on my holiday weekend after all

Nice to meet the new recruits to the woods and as always the usual crew - fantastic turn out and the shape of things to come for the weekender i hope. Thanks to Greg & Sal and the entertaining lil' white leafer - how does it survive

Cheers to Ross for bringing up the wheels, these have added to my ever increasing pile of bits that need to be fitted.....

For all those of you that helped at the digger weekend i thank you loads - the Site just gets better every time. I only got stuck once but managed to make up for this by entertaining you with some new dents and the magnificent, magical, disapearing rear window i really should be on the stage Big up to Retro for offering up a borrow of his spare window and even bigger up to Greg for loaning me his spare - just need to get a new one!

The Wilberforce Catering Company Ltd is now fully up and running, taking bookings and feeding the hungry across the South.

Good pics of BadBoys new truck and its flexy axle - i think Paul managed to find all the best spots to show his rear end off

Also nice to hear that Houndog has decided the 2.8 is a go for full on off roading, its currently too tidy and dent free - not for long

Sorry didnt get to say bye to Jammy (hope your clutch is ok) and anyone else for that matter and lastly to my wing man Paul (Mapracing) and his bicep building steering - wot diff?????

See ya soon Foggers

[BadBoy]

4th vid as promised

[Drift]

Looks good guys, but I see potential for a mud run

[markon72]

Just to say thank you for a great day out and friendly welcome we recieved. We all had a brilliant time. The wife is pleased we got out of it with no scratches(yet). Elaine says cheers to Paul for talking her through what to do and thank paul(mapracing) for doing my 2in lift and helping me get ready for the day.
All looking forward to next time.

[gregster]

Grrrrrr....just spent about an hour typing up a post and the damn computor crashed and its gorn....now where is my axe!!!

Will start again 2moz...

Blinding piccies and vids guys....and really glad everyone who has posted enjoyed themselves....bloody good bunch you guys are, makes it all worthwhile and a success....couldnt do it without you all

[bobbinsjob]

Glad you all had a good day guys n gals, cant wait till the weekender

2much, There is a rear window still in my 2.8 but i am converting it to a pickup so you are welcome to it mate

[jammywagonwheel]

Hi All,
Great to see everyone again, and what a turn out, I counted 14 Fronties in the car park at Nottcutts!

The Site has changed - almost beyond recognition since it first started, and after the digger weekend, its even better! Many thanks to Greg and the possee.

What can I say that hasnt already been said, A blinding day, Great weather, fantastic company and once again, awesome food and great to see so many new faces!

My take on the day.. (got loads of vids, but only a couple of pics - I'll upload vids later in the week...)

We met at the Nottcutts in Maidtone secret location where the carpark was chokka block with Fronties - a glorious sight!

Headed off to the asylum - sorry - Playground for a safety briefing and a breakdown of whats changed (for the better!!) and the carnage began..

First stuck of the day was Louis in the freshly fixed flatbadge which was promptly broken in the "adjusted with Digger Bombhole" - bent steering arm - Whoops!





After a quick Gregster fix - aka tying the steering arm to "Lil Leafer" and bouncing up and down on the steering arm, it was a bit straighter..

Louis popped back home for a spare and in true FOG 1 pitstop style - and a dose of brutality later..







Success! Back out to play

Off to the other bombhole where much laughter and p!ss taking was going on - Mapracing was having a play with his new welded Diff..







- I took a bunch of vids as well... but they will come later in the week..

CRUNCH - BASH - WHALLOP... couple of runs up hill and down dale (fresh pants please!) and we broke for lunch -
Thanks to Wilberforce Catering Co & 2Stuck - sorry - 2Much for manning the FOG-B-Q, food again was awesome, DJSarge did us proud with his tasty treats from his local Butcher!

picnic 1


Picnic 2



Louis wanted to help out so he had his own BBQ..



Lunch - Chats, Battle damage assesment over.. time to go play..


first things first - Lil Leafer needed to take a leak by cocking its leg against a tree when It thought no-one was looking


Eww... thats going to need cleaning up!



Brain in glovebox anyone?
http://s749.photobucket.com/albums/xx135/jammywagonwheel/FOG%2023-May%202010/?action=view&current=GregNewbie.flv


Martha held up well, but I fried her clutch, whoops! Got me home OK as she's a good girl like that!

THeres a few - erm.. Modifications that I deliberately did - ahem..
I'm going to coin the phrase - "Organic Modifications" - or "what tree? - Oh - that Tree"

erm..
Tree....


What Tree.... oops


Tree.... Stump - oops


And again...


AND AGAIN!!


Tree...



Thanks to everyone
I'll get the vids up later on... watch this space

John

[2much]

Glad you all had a good day guys n gals, cant wait till the weekender

2much, There is a rear window still in my 2.8 but i am converting it to a pickup so you are welcome to it mate

Hiya Ian, that would be fantastic mate! are you coming down for the weekender? if not, i've still got your number, i call and make arrangements to catch up.

Steve

[drinksoptional]

That looked a good one.

again gregster white leafer stayed white never saw this fronty dirty

[hobsey]

Some great pics from the day.

I'm still trying to find a way of reducing the size of my pics for the forum as they are far to big and cut alot of the pic out. Even with photobucket they are too big.

As soon as I do, I will post mine.

[Road Hog]

There is an option in Photobucket to auto resize on upload

[bobbinsjob]

Glad you all had a good day guys n gals, cant wait till the weekender

2much, There is a rear window still in my 2.8 but i am converting it to a pickup so you are welcome to it mate

Hiya Ian, that would be fantastic mate! are you coming down for the weekender? if not, i've still got your number, i call and make arrangements to catch up.

Steve

Yes I am Steve, I'll bring it with me