Posted on 16/10/2021 13:46
Has the club abandoned pitching guidelines? I've always been told quite firmly to reverse the van onto a pitch with the nearside corner next to the peg.
I'm currently at Malvern Hills and people are going freestyle with people seemingly pitching in any direction they want. I wish I'd been told this when I arrived as I would have ignored what I thought was a rule in favour of a better view.
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Posted on 18/10/2021 22:49 by BarsarI spoke to one of the very helpful wardens here at Malvern. It turns out you can pitch either way. Ie with towbar facing the road OR away from the road as long as you are in the middle of the pitch. This means that the diagram we are given is incorrect and so are the wardens who explain it.
Posted on 18/10/2021 23:01
Sorry but that guy is incorrect. The peg is there for a reason - to ensure spacing is maintained - and one of the appropriate corners must go to the peg as per the text in the diagram I posted. If middle of the pitch would do it, the peg would not be where it is.
I think he needs to read the stuff he's handing out. Logic dictates that he cannot be the only person who is right while everyone else, including the written instruction, is wrong.
Posted on 18/10/2021 22:49 by BarsarI spoke to one of the very helpful wardens here at Malvern. It turns out you can pitch either way. Ie with towbar facing the road OR away from the road as long as you are in the middle of the pitch. This means that the diagram we are given is incorrect and so are the wardens who explain it.
Posted on 18/10/2021 23:22
Surely that’s what the diagram on the site plan shows. It’s just that if you go nose in you put the nearside (passenger side) to the peg and if you reverse in you put the offside (driver side). However, in each case the RV is to the right of the peg, not as in the case highlighted by DK, to the left. You certainly don’t totally ignore the peg and put it exactly in the middle, if that’s what you are implying.
Posted on 19/10/2021 07:23
I would think that to be the case, as I can’t see a warden generally advising to ignore the peg. Due to maintaining spacing, the last pitch we were on at Cirencester had a fairly tight space to the left of the peg, only just sufficient for a car. We went nose in peg to the nearside and had room for a mega awning. On extending our wind out, it didn’t come within a metre of the pitch edge. This is unfortunate for those with caravans, as it can make it very awkward fitting barrels and car in. However, if the RV was placed in the middle of the pitch, it would have been a metre or more off the peg and fire spacing would be compromised.
Posted on 19/10/2021 08:35 by eribaMottersSo I'd never get away with this on a C&MC site then would I. Oh, to be on a French site.
Colin
Posted on 19/10/2021 08:35 by eribaMottersSo I'd never get away with this on a C&MC site then would I. Oh, to be on a French site.
Colin
Posted on 19/10/2021 08:35 by eribaMottersSo I'd never get away with this on a C&MC site then would I. Oh, to be on a French site.
Colin
Posted on 19/10/2021 09:03 by MikeyAAs most pegs will be situated off-centre, I'm sure all he means is "pitch to the peg with a rear corner with the caravan to which ever side has the most space on the hardstanding".
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it would then allow us who have no interest in going out of this country more chance of getting a pitch on the very busy sites in this country 
Barsar
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