Annual meet review 2011

Awesome Pics all round!

One day I will have a healthy enough truck to make the drive up there to come and play too

well back home all washing done, stuff put away, thanks guys had a brill weekend cant wait for next one , :dance:

Just got finished unloading the truck after our first FOG annual meet...and what can I say...

It was Brill... :dance:

Was great to meet loads of members who have been acquaintances on FOG for ages, and share a few tinnies and some mud!

Big Thanks to all those who organised the event and were instrumental in its success...

Managed to get our freshly painted 2.8lwb very muddy...and stuck...AndyTats lad is my hero for wading in with the tow strop (as he was wearing wellies...even though the mud was much deeper than his welly's) and Kel and Andy for the double truck drag out of the swamp!
Truck was fine...a bit damp inside (3" of sludge in the footwells) and the central locking and indicators are fried but it still runs fine...

Hope no-one was too shocked with my "redneck-engineering" repairs on various trucks...

A big thanks also from Roma for everyones cooperation, and to Roo for the bed and bowls, and to Rob/Audra for her dinner treats...

Will upload and post some pickies in a bit...but just wanted to bang a quick post in and say a huge thanks to everyone for making us so welcome as it such a great weekend...

PS.... For those who said that Bobbinsjob should forfeit his "most broke" award as his truck was rednecked back into life to drive home....
.....it didnt make it far before the oil pressure went and ended up getting towed by a proper truck (2.8 :wink:

) back to his friends house in Kettering, with binding brakes n all!... :shock:

Thanks to Kel for draggin his trailer and Rob for running block for us so we could keep moving...

A big Thanks to everyone for making my first FOG Annual a good one.

It was great to meet everyone and put faces to names.

Thanks again and hope to see you all again soon.

Well, we made it back safe and sound, and all the way under our own steam! A huge huge thank you to Rob and Audra who went above and beyond the call of duty to make sure I didn't go home on the back of a recovery truck ... though those extra few hours sat in that sunny yet cold and windy field has left us both a little red! :lol:

A fantastic weekend, even with the issues with the truck ... Great to see the old faces, as well as meeting the new ones. I hope that the couple of trucks that I worked on/assisted with are still running ok! :twisted:

I would upload some pics, but with the rebuilding of trucks and general messing around, I didn't take many at all ... the two important ones are:

The "special" chef ...

and

proof that the wheels didn't fall off after I had put them back on Andy's truck! :lol:

Massive thanks to all the peeps that put alot of work into making the third annual a reality.
It's when you see the finer details (welcome packs, people doing reccies, bar-be etc.) that it hits home that alot of hard work as gone into this event.
Brilliant weekend. Even enjoyed the dance/club music that was wofting over the fields from the next door neighbours rave bash. :roll:

Apologies for shooting off early Sunday afternoon, but I was summoned to be back by 5 so that I could get to my daughters best mates wedding reception evening bash.
Hope all the guys that had problems with their motors got sorted and got home OK.

Just echoing everybody else....but thanks to everyone for making the FOG annual meet, bigger and better..

got home around 4pm after a small detour to peterborough..and even better made it home under my own steam...

washed, fed and now having a beer...photos will follow shortly..absolutly bushed now..

again..huge thanks to all that attended and a big well done to Andysd1 for making the magic happen...

Home safe n sound... Many thanks to everyone involved in the organising of the event and many thanks to all who turned up.

I hope everyone got home safe and sound. Only managed to take 3 or 4 pictures. Not like me at all. Oh well.

as every one says above. had a great time putting faces to trucks to names. wife had a better time than it seemed. big thanks to andy and others involved

Well i am also finally home.....
The weekend was one of the best i have had with FOG and as already stated the annual just keeps getting bigger and better.
I made it as far as Birmingham before the bus started playing up by the time i got home i was so glad to get out it put a bit of a downer to the end of the weekend for me.......... But on the plus side i tried to put my new tent up again in the back garden for the kids to have a play......10 minutes and job done :evil:

Cheers again to all who attended for the blinding success that is FOG.

Cheers
Dan

Looking through this it looks like everybody had a great weekend!!! Weather was superb for it too! I only managed to get a chopper off the rig this afternoon so i missed everything, good weather included :evil:

Oh well, next year it is then. Just tried to phone Andy since i'll be down in the land of scousers the next day or two but no answer.....he's not on the back of an AA truck is he?!?

no afaik everyone left under their own steam

Just, and only just Gazzebo my friend.... :lol:

but I think Andy broke a CV joint or something negotiating the terrain on the gravel track....last seen with a few other dodgy looking scousers in the carpark at the entrance to Avalanche as we were leaving

I really enjoyed saturday. Had a great time and many thanks to the organisers and the catering gurus. Magic BBQ and midday food especially the muffins. Met alot of new peeps and all the regular suspects.
Great event and a great bunch of people

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Here's a few off the offending ""YELLOW PERILL""

poor truck and Andy eh hope he gets it fixed

Well the trusty 2.3 got me back to Exeter around 4:30 (it's down hill most of the way and managed to hit 83mph, which is very scarey in this thing :lol:

) but had to pick up the daughter so didn't get home till 6:30
A very big thank you to everyone for a wonderful weekend
The other half enjoyed herself so much she now wants her own Fronty swb or put on my insurance at least (she didnt enjoy sitting in the truck, laning as a passenger and now wants her own)
Have got a few piccies and will post them as soon as we are sorted

The steering rack was repaired onsite by the next morning. FOG to the rescue!