Transporting from car to campsite

[ICGenie]

All of the above, plus I find the hardest bit is queuing up for ages with all of your stuff so I just leave all of my things in the car and go back for them once I'm in as there's never a queue for re-entry.

[miniand]

Am wondering about this. When the queue is going all the way round the car park and along a ditch I'd feel a bit shady pushing past because I'm heading for the re-entry point. Or does the main queue disappear pretty quickly after gates open? I'm talking Gate D mainly here.

Edited June 7, 2014 by miniand

[ICGenie]

That's what I thought would probably be the situation - initial idea was for two to set up the tents while the other two did second trip but I think us all setting up, then all doing a second trip sounds more feasible. Thanks!

[Rumblestripe]

Nope, I'd go with the single trip method. Get some sort of wheeled contrivance load up and do it in one go. You only end up carrying stuff that you don't really need and then carrying it back on Sunday. And spirits rather than beer helps.

[blackred]

Instead of walking all the way back to the car for the second load I am planning on taking everything with me, but dropping most of it off at the first lock up i come across on site - should make it easier to scout out a campsite and reduce the amount of time taken to collect the rest of the stuff. Think the suggestion came from GlastoWorker in another thread (apologies if not)

[**claire**]

It took me 4 hours to re-enter in 2010... I don't know if the re-entry system has improved since then - I've always been too scared to try two trips after that experience.

[Jie Bie]

Is it possible to move your car after the fest has started to a better car park? Last year we were in Pink 54 which was pretty far away. Would have been good to move to one of the Orange car parks - and every time we walked past them we could see spaces from folk who had obviously went out on runs to shops or whatever...

[dibbul]

I just cant contemplate a second trip. Just pack as little as poss or get a really big trolley. I go for the latter!

[phillyfaddle]

If the weather's fine, the ones with pneumatic wheels are your only option, otherwise the tyres get shredded on the paths as I found out in 08. If it's m*ddy (NFR - shhh!), the wheels will inevitably get stuck and you'll die of exhaustion pushing it around. I used to favour strapping everything on my back, then going back for a second trip. BUT these days it's usually a 2 to 3 hour round trip to the car and back to the tent, so I wouldn't bother taking anything I couldn't carry in 1 trip. The days when you could almost see your car (or at least the field it was in) from Gate A are long gone....

[rostalof]

whatever you do - don't use a council wheelie bin - this idiot was only yards though the gate when the right hand wheel fell off and I doubt if he made it out of that field - one thing for certain was he never left with that wheelie bin

I see lots of strange devices - still cant work out why they were using the carts { in the middle }.

Whatever you use - the big Factor is Ground condition - the top two are both using the same metal road - great when its dry but will soon build up with mud.

the top image was shot five minuets after Gate D opened - as you can see the track was already covered in mud.

Each year I see bigger and bigger loads coming in and each year when I am on walkabout there will be loads of carts dumped at the side of the metal road { where wheels come off }

so decide when its clear if its going to be dry or not.

Edited June 11, 2014 by rostalof

[glasto-worker]

I reckon wheelbarrows are the best I've seen at Glasto. I've always used a wheelie bin and have had no problems with them. Granted I use a new one each year(which I assemble myself)* and ensure that it's in perfect condition before I use it. They are ideal for this purpose. If you seen some of the terrain here in the west of Ireland that those things survive in you wouldn't doubt me! The bin you saw falling apart was obviously faling apart in the first place and 'unfit for purpose'.

*My brother runs a recycyling/refuse company.

[rostalof]

I am sure these English bins are not designed to go across a open field - so I am a bit puzzled you say you bring a new bin to Glastonbury every year ? so how did you get on in 2011 ?

[glasto-worker]

A lot of the bins used here are imported from the UK and I wasn't trying to imply any sort of territorial superiority! How does bringing a new bin every year puzzle you? Maybe I should use the one I put my household waste in?

It works like this, put equipment/camping gear in the bin, load the bin into the van. On arrival, remove from van, bring onsite, unload, leave bin back to van. The whole procedure is reversed when I leave, then I leave the bin back to the depot. The following year I go pick up a new bin from the depot and start over again.

On the subject of 2011, I didn't make it that year. I do know from personal experience that wheelie bins are very robust, in fact they are designed to be and anybody who leaves a bin behind because the wheels have come off is just lazy.

[rostalof]

The point I was trying to make is when its Muddy you have no chance unless your wheels are far bigger than English bins - in 2011 some people just did not make it with their trolleys from the first field.

if it works for you fine but there is better ways of moving gear.