Our itinerant wild camper, wanderer, hedge-botherer and semi-feral woman of the woods, Lauren Eaton, talks us through some of her 4x4 adventures out in the big wild world.
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Sometimes, things don’t go to plan.
When you own multiple Land Rovers, this is something you quickly learn to live with but, for a change, it’s not the cars that are causing the problem, although the problem is prohibiting me from finishing those. The issue is that the workshop has broken down. All of it. "How can a workshop break down?" I hear you say. In short, the electricity feed that runs underground has failed in some way, and that isn’t going to be an easy fix. I live in an unusual property, nothing about it is typical or simple. There are 13 rooms, four brick or concrete outbuildings, a few sheds, half a dozen fuse boards, and lots of cable running to indoor and outdoor electrical stuff over a significant area of land. When the electric supply to the workshop failed, I was in there shot blasting parts for the 300tdi build. My initial thought was that it was either a faulty piece of equipment, I’d only just bought a new extractor among other things, or that I’d overloaded something running compressors, extractors, heaters, etc., but nothing had tripped on any of the fuse boards.
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