Dodge":15c7he48 said:
...... I would never drive these should damage occur from the movement of my vehicle - This is NOT off roading as you put it ......
It's the damage from a particular form of off roading which we all find so offensive. I've no objection those who don't cause the damage and who aren't just driving around pointlessly.
I'm aware that there are people in 'utility' vehicles doing sensible, necessary and useful things. It's the others who cause the problems
We get 4WD convoys around here - sometimes as many as 10. They have demolished many miles of tracks making them impassable except by 4wd or tracked vehicle in some spots. They particularly favour wet and steep spots - a combination which rapidly turns a pretty lane into a muddy canyon. I've seen them splash through puddles, gather the convoy and turn and splash through again. Big kids, big toys. They need to know that they are not welcome. They are a real problem.
PS I recall one confrontation some years ago. A convoy was held up by a farmer who was giving them a load of abuse and pointing out that they were making his access to his fields impassable. I got talking to one of the despondent drivers - it turned out that this was his first excursion and didn't know it was a battlefront. He suggested (correctly) that the muddy canyon through which they had just passed was unsuitable for any other use except as a dirt track. He hadn't twigged that it was he and his ilk who had reduced it to that condition.
The point is - there may be off roaders who imagine that they themselves aren't creating a problem because the route is already roughed up, not realising that it's earlier off roaders who roughed it up in the first place.
