Trail building pictures
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This is news to me, but it explains why the kids have been complaining about the trails lately... They use words like rough and bumpy, like thats a bad thing?!
OWE! My back.
I"ve never loved a shovel so I dont recognize... seems high tech and complex.
That fancy thingamijiger is called the Trail Boss. A guy in Bellingham named Bill makes them. They come in different configurations and there's a pile of heads you can swap out. It breaks down and fits well in my Camelbak Blowfish.
@boostindoubles Is the trail boss sturdy feeling or kind of flexy ? Been drooling over them for a while.
It is sturdy when all the clamps are tight. If you are swinging it for a while, some of the knuckles loosen and you have to re-tighten them. When getting it out, It takes a minute or two to setup and breakdown. It's not going to replace a regular mcleod, but for what it is, its gold. It fits in my pack and I forget about it while riding. Its for those quick fixes in remote places that would be long walks and short digs. It's also is great when I need my bike to test shit out while digging.
awesome! most of my digging is within striking distance of the car, but the trail boss looks nice!
How do you turn without a berm?
Someone rallied the trail in a Jeep, what the hell! They took quite a few runs at it...
It's kind of comical, our local city trails organization, which I am part of, has a tools-trailer that we bring to trail building/maintenance events. Somehow a picture of me, "deer in the headlights" (not the gnome, the mcleod and rogue hoe guy) smack dab right in the middle ended upon the side of this thing, and it's huge, like life-size. So now, I'm plastered front and center all over the city wherever this trailer goes.
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Required. Some people wear their bicycle helmets...but that looks mega dorky. I use my climbing helmet. That's Kevin in the picture, he was going back and forth using the excavators too.
Hard hats are pretty stupid, not designed for actual protection.
They are good for protecting you from a wrench dropped from 10 feet up.
24" Stilson, not so much...
No. I have to wear one when working with crane loads. Will protect me when the 10mm socket someone left behind rolls off and may help identify the splat Mark if the 40k lb payload drops. Actually I stay well away from any vertical energy paths so it is just a PITA either way.
My climbing helmet works pretty good, and is for, uhh, protecting from falling rocks...kind of.
Looks like well attended work parties, we had one last weekend also. Except we were knocking down Scotch thistle as per our agreement with the land owner. We were in a 7 acre field of them and it seemed endless.
Between the Devil's Club and Cow Parsnip (causes lasting chemical burns) I think it's a wonderful idea.
Trailbuilding org that maintains the trails and has agreements with the municipality (land owner).
I don't know where the mini dozer is either but I want a Sweco 480 someday.
What is that blue thing in the top of the picture?