green laning

[Rupe]

its private land there are no public rights of way ,looking @ making 1,

 

Its private land, but is it your private land?

[Johny Walker]

yes rupe its mine, all mine.

[Catweazle]

I think 5 acres will be a bit small, you won't be able to charge much for it, but here goes.

 

You'll want to avoid the turning up with a clapped out written off rangerover with tractor tyres fitted, usually on a recovery lorry, they will rip up the whole place and be a danger to other users. Stipulate that all vehicles must have a valid tax disk and road legal tyres - no tractor pattern tyres.

 

Divide the land up into different grades with colour coded signs, have an easy route right around the perimeter that is suitable for school-run freelanders and other semi-4X4s.

 

Make some more challenging sections exit from and then go back onto the easy perimeter route - call these intermediate difficulty - the novice can have a go at these and easily back out or rejoin the easy route after the obstacle. You are trying to let people learn their limits in a no-pressure place so haveing them spread around the perimeter will avoid crowds of people gathering to watch the obstacles.

 

Your difficult sections should be in the middle of the land with plenty of parking nearby. People will want to stop for a rest / chat / coffee and watch the serious cars attempt the difficult obstacles. This will also mean that there are plenty of people to pull on a rope and take photos. You'll need a JCB to dig some serious pits here, it's nice if they have a name so that regulars can talk about them and compare notes.

 

Provide a standpipe and hose, the car radiators will get clogged and will need a periodic rinse off, cars will overheat and lose water, windows will get covered in mud.

 

At the exit try to provide a drive through bath and a pressure washer - you don't want those 4x4 leaving half your mud on the public highway.

 

Sell bacon sarnies.

 

Lastly, make sure you have sufficient recovery equipment - people will get stuck in the most unusual places, sometimes upside down.

Edited January 12, 2010 by John Shutler

[Rupe]

yes rupe its mine, all mine.

 

Cool, go for it and see what happens! Fill out some form after someone complains not before!

[Catweazle]

Here are a couple of short videos of my local Pay-N-Play . It's really well run.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCWsavxRGAM&feature=related]YouTube - woodlands 4x4 march 2009 incuding the bomhole blits (PART 1/2)[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv60Y4hKJPs&feature=related]YouTube - woodlands 4x4 march 2009 incuding the bomhole blits (PART 2/2)[/ame]

[tommer9]

Yuck....off roaders.......you are opening a life of beardy weirdy hell letting those freaks on your land......

[Darren]

Couldn't think of anything worse than ripping up a perfectly good woodland.

[Johny Walker]

its not good woodland, if it was i wouldnt be thinking about green laning

[Bomag]

But its not greenlaning, its off-roading. The two are miles apart. One requires road legal, mot'd and taxed vehicles driven by people with insurance and a driving licence, the other doesnt.

Have you considered contacting your local ALRC club and seeing if they wish to hire the venue for a couple of weekends a year to run trials?

Personally I think 5 acres is way too small for a P&P site, I'd be very bored within 30 minutes, and thats using the Discovery on road tyres.

[farmer_ben]

What...Greenlane? No. Personally I am not interested in Enduro's but I am in the minority as far as that goes.

Contact your local TRF group for more info...

....they will be sympathetic to your wanting to build a course...if that's what you wanna try and do...?

 

Groups

 

Enduros don't use green lanes or any public high way, the only expection to this are very short sections of british enduro rounds. There would never be enough people do enduros if each one went on a public highway etc.

 

Getting back on topic, keep the woodland for you and a few mates to mess about it. It becomes a legal minefield as soon as you open it up to any tom dick or clive