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landtoy · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 20:07 Post subject: toms farm wales

hi
has anyone been to toms farm near Rhayader in mid-wales ?

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Landcrusher · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 17:48 Post subject: Tom's bomb hole

Yep - questions?

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landtoy · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 20:33 Post subject: toms farm

so what was it like? and is it worth a day out to toms farm ? and is it still open.

Landcrusher · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 20:48 Post subject: Tom's bog

I was there a month ago. Best 2 days I have had for years! I would go back in a heartbeat. There is every degree of difficulty from family day out to ARE YOU MENTAL?????

I went with my quad, but didn't take my Cruiser around as I didn't get chance to join a convoy. There were std vehicles there right through to custom built bog gobblers. Mud ranged from light to extra deep. If you had mud terrains and a lift, you would only get so far. Without a winch, there are sections that I would even dream of trying. True there are a lot of bikes and quads whizzing around, but I had no issues. £10 pay on the gate. Snow was coming sideways and the ground was soaking. Perfect. It looks like a cross between Mad Max and the end of the World. But everyone seemed friendly enough. You really need to go with someone who's been before.

Here's me coming up the waterfall. I have watched the vid of a LR and a Suzie coming DOWN this.

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landtoy · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 21:01 Post subject: toms farm

Looks awsome! I also had a kodiak 450, great fun arn't they, must visit toms farm soon, perhaps the weekend we are at wyside camping, (if any one else is intrested?) just an idea.

Landcrusher · Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 22:11 Post subject: Quad

Yeah, very good. I was there with some of the boyz from kentquads. Really nice, showed me around. They even let me pull them out of the mud with my winch. Ha Ha. The Kodiak (which is actually blue all over by the way) really did well due to the low ratio box - which the Polaris didn't have. I did get stuck a couple of times and even flipped it over once but in the main, ploughed though everything. Great weekend. Next time, I want a helmet cam.

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Landcrusher · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 20:56 Post subject:

Going to Tom's this weekend (28, 29). I f anyone else is around, let me know and we'll go for a play together. Going to alternate between quad and Cruiser. It is a lot of fun and quite an experience.

LC
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Paul_Humphreys · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 21:04 Post subject:

Paul_Humphreys · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 21:12 Post subject:

Just out of interest. what way are you heading down?

Paul
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Landcrusher · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:11 Post subject:

Well, I might go A38 Brownhills sort of area, then straight out West from there to the A34? Trying to stick to decent roads, not simply the shortest route as I'm towing the quad and accelerating all that weight gets expensive on country roads.

LC
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Landcrusher · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 23:17 Post subject:

That should read, A38, M42 to Bromsgrove, and out to the A44 all the way to Rhayader. No idea where A34 crept in from.

Not coming past Oswestry this time.

Have fun with the fitting. Glad to see it's raining nice and hard. The mud should be building nicely.

LC
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