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Grade reversals before and after corners should control the water pretty well, might take some work if the trail is already well established. As for the second spot, can you get material down the fire road? Haul in a bunch of rock if possible and you could rebuild it with rock and outslope it or excavate and pipe it under the trail. Added benefit of the pipe is you can inslope the trail all around the low spot to keep it dry.
Build season is here. I hope we don't get snow too soon and more importantly less wind storms so we don't have to spend so much time on maintenance.
Cannot overstate how awesome this tool has been.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...8477933471.jpg
I'm banned from the bike for the rest of the year, so I saw this thread and for a minute I thought "Hey, lemons->lemonade, I'll go dig a bunch!" Then I remembered I also have a broken sternum--not going to be digging anything for a while either.
Just get healthy bud... your lemonade will come. Get lost in some novels or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
Physical activity is good for the brain, as is time in the woods.Quote:
Originally Posted by grskier
Got that same saw this fall. Pretty happy with it, for the most part. The small chain is kinda fussy though. And I wish the whole package was lighter. It's a good bit heavier than a decent gas saw, which kinda sucks when I'm riding with it. Power and battery life are impressive though.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
Yeah, I don't mind the weight vs dealing with gas an shit. Depending how much cutting needs to be done you can run a smaller lighter battery like in my pic.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
I haven't had any chain issues.
I've had it throw the chain a bunch. Mostly on weird cuts and small, annoying stuff where it skips around a bit. I've gotten better about figuring how to run it so it doesn't drop a chain, but I've never (or at least very rarely) had a "real" saw throw a chain in identical situations. I've started running the chain a bit tighter, which helps a little bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
I also notice that the chain stretches out really quickly. I find I have to retension it pretty often. Probably 3x more quickly than my saw with a .050 chain.
The other issue I've had is just that the bar is super thin. I bent it pretty easily when I tripped and fell on the saw. On the upside, I could bend it back just as easily.
Yeah, I guess it is tough when comparing to a combustion saw. These saws don't have the balz of the gas ones, but they work good enough for my needs building trail. If we were building sanctioned trails we could probably run the gas if needed, but we're not sanctioned. The instant on/off, no idling, and just quiet is so freakin nice. I was using sawzalls before, so this is heaven comparatively.Quote:
Originally Posted by toast2266
Yeah, for sure. The discretion factor is really nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
12 days of dry weather. Flagged lines earlier. Now packing away at the groundwork
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I love dig stoke and trail porn but for whatever reason I can't upload photos from my phone to my pc and I can't log on to TGR with my phone so I can't contribute to this thread, sorry.
If you want to check out the project I've been working for over three years now you can see on my IG acount. thanks!
https://www.instagram.com/raisingarizona13/?hl=en
Man, that's a lot of hard work by the looks of it. Bench cutting for days? Nice work!Quote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
I'm headed to Sedona in the spring, so I may hit you up for some intel. With wifey who doesn't ride, so will be limited.
We have switched over to ski trail maintenance and clearing this time o year. Some trees to cut and throwing a lot of branches plus burning last years brush piles.
Still gotta clear the super glades then punch thru that upper connector trail for the grand tour trail.
Spent the weekend scratching around in the dirt.
A shitty run in.
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To a decent sized drop
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To a decent sized jump
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To some rolly pumpy stuff where the terrain gets flat. Still a bunch of work to do on that part.
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A couple pics from my summer, looking back I have a pathetic amount of pics. Was too busy building I guess, 50-60 hrs a week until I crashed and broke my arm. We made good progress on the hill, almost completed a blue jump trail, built a skills park with inner pump track, and knocked out some rad hand built which I of course have no pictures of. This was all after about 3 weeks of clearing snow due to the huge winter. Stoked to heal up and get back after it next spring.
Was able to finish a nice addition today. Maybe half mile or so. 3 guys, chainsaw, blower, hard rake, and regular rake. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...88a6c8f2eb.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4e612462dc.jpg
Man, just saw your latest stuff! Heavy lifting. You guys are killing itQuote:
Originally Posted by raisingarizona13
thanks man, and others that commented or checked it out. We started the planning for the project in august of 2016 and put shovels to the dirt last June. It's been an epic but we should have her done by next June!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
Nothing has come easy with this build. It's all rock, there have been days and sections where you spend 4 hours doing back breaking work to open up 10 feet of bench. That top section that we were working on since mid September was literally giant slabs of dacite and we had to spend a week and a half just jack hammering it out. I love this work but I can't lie, I'm really excited to wrap this project up now.
Rode this in for 2 yrs and just a little bermin' is all she needs.
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Never built a trail, but during this Rona downtime I have been working on a biking/walking path around our 10 acres. Rented this box scraper today and dragged it around a bunch. Worked okay but dirt/grass/pine needles would completely choke the box every 20-30 yards and I would have to stop and clean it out, yeah it was f'ing hard work. It's a start, but lots of digging left to do. Be pretty cool when it's done though.
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^that's cool!
Did a little reroute today to bypass a wet area. With more traffic these days our trails get packed down combined with tire erosion they become water holes. Lines you assume are high enough rear their ugly head after a bit.
Started building an extension of the climbing trail at one of our local trail networks. Playing in an excavator is fun, but can't say I'm really looking forward to sitting in that thing all week.
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