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07-01-2019, 09:45 AM #326Registered User
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07-02-2019, 05:33 AM #327Banned
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The name of the game when you are trying to build out miles of trail by yourself by hand is to find the natural routes, open hardwoods, natural benches, and where "Building" will be required, route your trail closest to available materials, which in my case is almost always stashes of rocks and good dirt to mine. Cherry-pick the landscape, stay on ridges ect. Being in the foothills vs the spine of the Greens a short distance away makes this pretty do-able. Next project is to reclaim another old, bench cut farm road that traverses under the peak of our little Mtn of Paine. It will eliminate an almost impossible (for me) climb to the ridge that connects us to the pod of trails a few miles north. It will be a buff, screaming fast DH on the return. A little clearing and a small section of hand bench will add another mile of trail. Probably 20 hours total work. Low hanging fruits FTW.
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07-02-2019, 08:31 AM #328
I finished one section of new last month and now I'm focusing on reroutes of existing for the rest of the year. Goal is obviously to make what I already have mo bettah. A lot of my first gen stuff is...well first gen. I've certainly learned a lot over the past 15 yrs and the bikes have changed so much that the lines are different too. ...and the chainsaw changes everything!
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07-02-2019, 02:21 PM #329
Built up a landing on this little shark finny thing.
(Edited because I typed the wrong marine mammal trail feature)
Last edited by toast2266; 07-02-2019 at 03:16 PM.
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07-05-2019, 02:28 PM #330
Couple hours with the saw today and the rough in for the addition (which started as a simple reroute...but got out of hand) is complete. Need to establish the lines with a little blow and some raking.
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07-08-2019, 12:37 PM #331Registered User
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We have vine maple and blackberry bushes is abundance in my area. What tools do folks like for clearing out vines and bushy plants? Shears seem like a lot of work to keep sharp and non-sticky, and a machete doesnt seem like a great option either... but maybe im wrong?
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07-08-2019, 12:54 PM #332
If you are rolling power tools, a Stihl Kombi with the adjustable hedge trimmer works amazingly well for that sort of thing...
Otherwise a good pruning shear and lopper are effective (Felco, Fiskars, etc.) albeit more time consuming.
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07-08-2019, 01:14 PM #333
Chainsaw, hedge trimmers, gas powered trimmer?
Went on the sheep mountain trail clearing day last weekend, it was long. We went over the top and down the other side and then out the main rattlesnake corridor, which made for about 20 miles and took nearly 7 hours. We probably could have used 2-3 more people and another saw to get through that a little more quickly. Still, 6 of us on bikes with two chainsaws cleared 10mi of trail in a few hours. Would have been much harder with handsaws on foot.
Sheep mountain, about 7600ft, which we came over from the other side.
More down trees on the way up than I expected. My garmin recorded 2.7mi and it took us 2 hours 20min to get up there. Then it was onto the actual trail we went to clear, called 1513. This had been all but abandoned until mtb missoula went in and cleared it out a few years ago, offering another trail option when you get up to sheep.
View from the top, looking north into the upper rattlesnake
The mountain across the valley on the right is mineral peak, and one group went toward the top of that to clear a trail that comes down the side facing us. Another went down the center of that valley to the right, and we descended the ridge in the foreground to the left. Then we all went left to that big valley (the rattlesnake main corridor). Big mountain back there is Mcloed and on the right way in the back you can sort of see the missions.
Also cheap flat pedals with boots in the wet is not confidence inspiring. Also we were the last ones down by a few hours. But there was pizza and beer waiting.
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07-08-2019, 01:36 PM #334Registered User
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07-08-2019, 01:55 PM #335
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07-08-2019, 05:39 PM #336
You can't really do that down over here. The name of the game in the Four Corners region is get the water off the trail as quickly as possible. Ridge lines, old road beds and natural benches larger than 36 inches without a lot of grade reversals don't shed water so good. Poor soil and an arid climate that gets seriously heavy, energetic bursts of moisture doesn't do so good with more than 20 to 30 feet (30 tops is my general rule) of flow down the tread.
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07-15-2019, 01:31 PM #337
Latest addition required a ton of saw work on blowdowns. The benefit is the dirt they provide. Its tough to find good dirt in our woods digging by hand.
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07-18-2019, 11:30 PM #338
Cleared some blowdown so these old trails can be ridden
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07-19-2019, 12:22 AM #339
Looks GMG-ish
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07-19-2019, 09:35 AM #340
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08-03-2019, 09:41 AM #341
Nice to have rain. Reloamed old trails
Before & After
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08-03-2019, 09:41 AM #342
Opening up new trail. Buranus to Mianus
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08-03-2019, 05:11 PM #343
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09-15-2019, 07:56 PM #344
Making rock slabs great again
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09-17-2019, 08:57 AM #345Registered User
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I have a small creek i need to cross on a trail im building. The creek has worn the earth away so that it is only 4'-5' accross, but also probably 4' deep. I cant use power tools. I was thinking about cutting a pallet in half, connecting the halves lengthwise and nailing some 2x4s to the bottom for stability. All the downed trees in the area are rotting or too large to move or cut with hand tools.
Any tips or tricks folks can offer?
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09-17-2019, 10:46 AM #346
If you can get a pallet to the site, why not bring in some actual, worthwhile materials? A couple of pressure treated fence posts to use as stringers, and then use whatever planks your budget allows for to deck it. Cut everything off site and just nail it together.
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09-17-2019, 10:53 AM #347User
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09-17-2019, 11:01 AM #348
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09-23-2019, 05:11 PM #349watch out for snakes
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09-24-2019, 04:27 PM #350
Lee, so much of the work you post up.. makes my ribs hurt just looking at it.. I suck at skinny stuff lol.
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