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Mr. Chainring
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Trail Maintenance - don't do this
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not when you have multiple broken teeth...
serviceguy
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Time to go bigger (and buy a spare blade)!
Blade 170mm, Pocketboy Professional, Outback Edition
Blade 170mm, Pocketboy Professional, Outback Edition - Silky Saws
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pibbles
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Judging by the teeth it looks like you should've broke out the instruction manual awhile ago...
just bigger and thickerCurious if the black blades are any tougher??Blade 170mm, Pocketboy Professional, Outback Edition
Blade 170mm, Pocketboy Professional, Outback Edition - Silky Saws
serviceguy
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Wrong blade, the one needed is the Gomboy.
I do own both a regular BigBoy and an Outback edition, the difference from the regular blade in the words of their website:
"The blade can cut bone and wood, and is black-plated with a nickel/tin blend to improve durability and reduce reflection for stealth, low-impact activities."
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That looks like a section of the challenger race loop at Camden community College
When clearing dead fall, its important to remove all the tree from open, sunny areas. Monmouth County has a lot of invasive pressure, these plants use dead fall to climb on and choke out other native plants. Areas in shade under mature trees are not an issue, invasives need sunlight. Also removing the deadfall allows a mower to come in and clear the area periodically.
These locust trees came down during hurricane Sandy. Over the years invasive vines climbed over them, forming a 7' wall of green. These vines also attack living trees, literally pulling them down with their weight.
Clearing these invasives and the dead fall is good winter work.
It takes a bit longer to clear all the dead fall from these sunny areas, but in the long run its better for the native plants and it provides a nicer trail experience.
These locust trees came down during hurricane Sandy. Over the years invasive vines climbed over them, forming a 7' wall of green. These vines also attack living trees, literally pulling them down with their weight.
Clearing these invasives and the dead fall is good winter work.
It takes a bit longer to clear all the dead fall from these sunny areas, but in the long run its better for the native plants and it provides a nicer trail experience.
Karate Monkey
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In Monmouth County, very often we'll see trails creep wider and wider every year as a result of trail users looking to avoid trip hazards. This includes mtbers looking for a good line. A popular park like Hartshorne which has a lot of traffic can see trails expand 20-30' wide.
Trip hazards like roots and rocks push people wider to avoid them, causing the trail to look blown out, with no clear line.
Part of trail sustainability is to define the trail, with a clear line that users stay on.
Recently we addressed trail widening at Hartshorne by providing a sustainable line, without trip hazards and closing down the sides. Some may argue that the trip hazards provide technical trail for mtbers. This may be true in north Jersey, where there is nothing but rock, however in Monmouth County, where rocks are fewer and far between, even the mtbers avoid them. Thus 30' wide trails.
Don scopes out the line and forms a plan.
Big efforts are made to move big rock.
This section of trail took two sessions to complete and you fly through it in less then 10 seconds. But it will be here for a long time.
Trip hazards like roots and rocks push people wider to avoid them, causing the trail to look blown out, with no clear line.
Part of trail sustainability is to define the trail, with a clear line that users stay on.
Recently we addressed trail widening at Hartshorne by providing a sustainable line, without trip hazards and closing down the sides. Some may argue that the trip hazards provide technical trail for mtbers. This may be true in north Jersey, where there is nothing but rock, however in Monmouth County, where rocks are fewer and far between, even the mtbers avoid them. Thus 30' wide trails.
Don scopes out the line and forms a plan.
Big efforts are made to move big rock.
This section of trail took two sessions to complete and you fly through it in less then 10 seconds. But it will be here for a long time.
Karate Monkey
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@pooriggy secondary benefit: the trees don't take a beating from having their roots being bashed/cut out by less scrupulous people.
I've ridden said section two or three times since the work was started on it. I really only viewed it as technical if you didn't "know" the line. I view a lot of the park that way, incidentally...the Water Tower trail being a prime example: climbing it seems like an exercise in frustration, but you can hold a steady line up almost every chunky part.
I've ridden said section two or three times since the work was started on it. I really only viewed it as technical if you didn't "know" the line. I view a lot of the park that way, incidentally...the Water Tower trail being a prime example: climbing it seems like an exercise in frustration, but you can hold a steady line up almost every chunky part.
Kaleidopete
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Wawayanda doesn't like the unauthorized trail created by hunters years ago but now used by bikers and hikers, so they put a big rock blocking it.
RobSinger
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That rock is to keep 4 wheel vehicles off the trail.