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Oh jackstraw that sucks
Yeah, most all of it was brought in. From any free source I could find. So I have a lot of varieties of dirt. I only dug down 2 transitions in the doubles.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Nice. Makes for a clean looking yard!Quote:
Originally Posted by CS
So, yeah we've obviously been aware of this potentially happening. The land abuts an old railroad that was just approved for a rail trail and in typical New England coastal fashion, there are 20+ lots spanning three towns within the network. Many landlocked, but this one guy owns the bulk of them and he passed away in 2016 I believe. Then it went into a family trust which is never a good thing and here we are today.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
What is annoying is that they posted it. Now the mtb network has become much busier over time and there is no formal parking spot. There is a dirt pull off for maybe three-four cars, but then people were parking on the sides of the roads. This definitely was drawing attention and since COVID most people have been walkers out there. The mtn biking is really difficult, so the walkers are more popular than the bikers. They haven't even closed on the sale and are very far from the first bulldozer, so I just don't get the no trespassing signs. Its a place for people to go for a walk right now and everyone needs a release. There is no liability in NH for open land according to my attorney bud who I ride with, so why post it?
My friend just finished his first trail at my work lunch spot. Another .5 miles! Pretty psyched for an addition that I didn't build!
This tree was lined up perfectly. Little chainsaw work and she's good to go. The tree on the left is inches away which adds another challenge to riding it. Super fun! Still need to add exit/entrance ramp at other end.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0a00228561.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...cb8467834b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0a63d6cb52.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8442e3c3e6.jpg
I hate riding skinnies soooo much, but everytime i see a downed tree i just start imagining all the cool ways it could get implemented as a skinny into the trail haha.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
And yes, its not that i suck at riding skinnys, its that i suck at riding and the skinnys prove it.
It's not that I'm good, I just enjoy it! I like low consequence skinnies. Just need to work on ditching by wheelieing (I've never spelled that word...is it one!?) off or hoping off. Practice helps, but I'll never be close to a Danny MacAskill! Tire pressure makes a difference as well as the bike if you're taking it next level.Quote:
Originally Posted by californiagrown
There was a fat flat one in Santa Cruz that I could definitely clean, but the fall was too far into a wet rock garden. No way!
This is some brand new stuff going on close to me. I don't know the builders, but I hear their young. And from the looks of it they're probably young, but damn hard workers.
Not my vid
https://vimeo.com/421064589
That looks fun. And yeah - they put some serious effort into that.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
Thats awesome. Looks super well built, and took a lot of manpower. I love when a big build looks polished and sculpted and despite there being a ton of earth work, the footprint is small. I don't care if youre into MTB or not. Any person who had hotwheels as a kid, or an imaginations should think a trail like that is pretty cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
went to the desert. brought a rake and shovel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4VVHPGTVhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4VVHPGTVhc
Local kids build right in the middle of the elementary school parking lot! Love seeing stuff like thishttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...eba55470b9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...898b96d61f.jpg
Worked on my first sanctioned trail with 3 others that I've never built with today. It's kind of a mess because of so many potential features on the downs that all we essentially built was a playground off the main (nonexistent quite yet) trail. It was quite comical. We decided to start from the "start" next time instead of features in the middle of the trail. Spent most of the time working the "up" which is a pretty good grind. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a84a98ed0b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...0b926adb75.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...047dffded7.jpg
Moved rocks last night.
Early in the process
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Mostly finished (still needs a bunch of dirt work).
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Holy cow. Next levelQuote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
The whole trail is a fun little project. Semi-uninteresting terrain that we're trying to make more interesting with rock work (since there's a ton of fairly move-able rock in the vicinity).Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
You're killing me with this! Reminds me of videos of the Captain Ahab build. I'm working sidehill in a spot of deep organic loam with lots of roots and random glacial erratics. It'd be great to have telekinesis to move some of those erratics into the massive holes I'm excavating but till then it's dreaming of chains, come-alongs and mostly just trundling rocks downhill and hoping they land in placeQuote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Well, most of what we've been doing is of the "trundle downhill and hope it stops kinda in the right spot" variety. But yesterday's project was a little more involved. We actually had one really big rock that was the primary objective, but of course as soon as we started yanking on it, it broke in half. So we moved two pretty big rocks instead (plus a bonus big rock that we found under the main one). The trail is close to a road, so hauling in all of the chains and come alongs is pretty easy. If this was more remote, I'm not sure we'd bother.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
Wow! That's sick! I've never thought to bring my come along out to move rock.
My son and his friends have been working on their first trail. Its coming out great. Nice addition to the local stuff from the house.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...da494ab010.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...b01607ff62.jpg
I raked a lip yesterday... On a trail I helped build last year. Someone had got in here ahead of me and packed out a few lips, didn't get this one exactly right so I fixed it.
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Edit- facking sideways bs
I can only reset the loose rocks soo many times. Been stuck on "4 more buckets" for the last 10. #loserocksAttachment 330435
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Record for trailwork inefficiency.. 8 hours of work for 1 second of riding.
Massive loam hump with embedded rocks. Rocked in the base. Scooped away the loam and warehoused it to expose 4 large rocks stacked on top of each other.
Excavated holes for the rocks to drop into and hope I got it right first time as they were big suckers. Then scooped away the high side loam to expose mineral soil which was then dropped onto the rocks for the final paving
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Yeesh! It did finish up nice though
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The beginnings of some new trail
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This is going to be the connection over the top of mount dean stone, a big new open space project here. Even though it's not mountain bike specific, we get to provide a lot of input and do work so it should still be fun to ride. We were up there
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Lousy weather today (mid-30s with rain and snow) so figured it would be a good time for some trail maintenance (fewer people on the trail). This is a little "unofficial" trail near my house with some jumps and steeper sections higher up but towards the bottom it snakes through the trees without a lot of elevation change. At one spot a seasonal creek was hitting it and running down the trail for about 200 feet, causing a lot of erosion during the spring melt. I built a drain at the top where it crossed the trail to keep the water going into the natural creekbed rather than diverting along the trail. Also used some scavenged wood to help keep people on the trail rather than fanning out at the crossing (careful not to block the water flow though). By the time I was done the trail below the creek crossing (top left of the picture) was already starting to dry out.
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This one's still a work in progress - trying to fix a low spot where the trail runs through a marshy area. Not much slope to work with. Managed to improve the flow of the creek across the trail and built a drain to remove some of the water that was running along the tread. The muddy section at the top of the picture is mostly drained now, need to let the soil dry out a bit and then go back to tamp it. Need to do something about the puddle in the foreground though.
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^Seems like bridging is the only long term solution. We have a similar spot and we initially bridged over the main narrow stream with just a 2x10 and created a rock path on either side and it just didn't work. The rocks sank into the mud during the wet season and a lot of people couldn't stay on them as it was like riding a fat skinny. We ended up low bridging the entire thing.
Saturday we put in about 4hrs of work. This is by far the most difficult new trail layout I've been a part of especially because it's sanctioned and has requirements...to be rideable by the owner! Spending so much time on routing...making it ride both ways is super challenging. We now have two areas where there is a B line up. Maybe a 1/4 of the way there now. Too hot and too much pollen!
I'd think some sort of raised section of trail. We did something like that last year and this spring I noticed that it needed to be about twice as long as there was still mud before and after it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxXhogkncQT/
Seems like the solution just depends on the situation. Close to a road where you can bring in materials? Just buy some pressure treated dimensional lumber and build a bridge. Good wood (cedar) available on site? Build a bridge out of local material. Close to a source of gravel? Build up the tread and install a culvert. Lots of rock available? Build up tread with cobbles, install culvert, fill tread with mineral soil. None of the above? Leave it until it gets bad enough that someone is motivated to haul materials in the hard way.
Is that rock covered with a poly or rubber membrane and then dirt on top?Quote:
Originally Posted by jamal
Looks like landscaping fabric to keep weeds from coming up.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
While building a low bridge would definitely fix this spot you may be able to troubleshoot it with some old fashioned ditch digging. It looks fairly flat but probably still enough fall to take trenches above and parallel to the trail fall line towards an armored crossing at the low spot. This is assuming that you can harvest up some gravel and some decent sized stones. Also it’s hard to tell from the picture if that’s just dark dirt or organics in the tread, but if you can take off the organic material and get down to (or import) a mineral dirt it will shed water much betterQuote:
Originally Posted by teledad
Question: looking to pick up a rope saw, never used one. Anyone have any nuggets to drop on the subject? Recommended length, handle type, chain or rope?
I've got access to a trail boss with saw attachment when needed and really like that, looking for something to keep stashed in the pack for rando downed trees.
I've only used one a little bit, but it was vastly less efficient than a folding saw. Maybe a good version exists? Not sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by rip
Thanks, that's kinda what I figured. They seem kinda clunky and awkward. Maybe someone has figured it out and made a nice one, but I ended up ordering a Sven Saw, used them before and they are pretty bad ass. A little more bulky but should strap to the pack no prob and do the trick.
http://www.svensaw.com/
I carried one of those little chain saws for a while and thought it was great til I had to cut some harder wood. Holy crap did it suck.
I just recently ordered one of these. Had to use it saturday and that baby was like a hot knife through butter.
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Anyone seen or tried one of these? The packability is attractive if it works. It could be a pain to get stuck i think
https://www.portablechainsaw.com/
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