How does one go about getting permission to clear some new trails? We ended up in some spots yesterday that could yield some sweet trails with a couple 6"-20" trees being removed..
When we did a trail maintenence day there we were not allowed to use chainsaws due to liability. Maybe if the tree were "dead" you could take an employee back with you and let them know it is an accident waiting to happen and someone is going to get hurt.
There are probably miles of trails that could be opened up in there. Like Ironman said, they told us hand tools only. I usually carry loppers and a small hand saw but since I wasn't driving I didn't have them with me.
I'm not in favor of taking out trees bigger than about 4".
point of information if someone brought the idea of a new trail to the genesse county parks people they may consider it but i think out there they have to approve new trails any way and on public property operation of a chain saw requirs a national chain saw saftey certification and if you read earlier ull see where i say you have to have a cert to run a chainsaw on public land
since the the whole place is listed as scramble area the new trails aren't the issue. the real issue is the sound barrier zones. the place was 400 acres now reduced to 240 ride/drivable acres. I went with ATVOC to do trail clearing a couple years back. most of the trail is there just grown shut. the russian olive trees are nuts in there, they so thick it took 8 hours to 1/2 mile with 8 guys.
because of this thread every fucking retard that goes there is going to think its cool to "make new trails" and fuck things up, there will be no challenge because everything will be 20 feet wide and torn up by 33's.
well as i said earlier you need a chainsaw cert to run on public property for that reason so people cant cut all the trees down and all cutting must be approved by the genesse parks
I agree with Bryce and Hosejockey. Some VERY select trail cutting done by the county would be cool, if a select few of us had the chance to suggest where they do it. Otherwise just go around the trees.
I walked a trail for a good 300-400 ft Saturday. Pretty cool but it had overhangers 4" diameter that were only 4 ft off the ground. It would take a couple guys at least an hour to clear it.
There are also a ton of potential hill climbs that can't be accessed.
We should pick a date and go back there to clean out that ravine. If we clear out some of those dead trees laying horizontal across there, and remove 10-12 smaller trees, that would be an absolute riot back there.
It would open up 1000' of new trail.
Where I had to stop pointing towards that other trail, we could also clean that out as a bypass to going over that peaked hill that everybody broke on.
I like the trees, but if any of the larger ones are ever cut down they should be left 12" tall to act as stationary obstacles and keep the quads from turning it into a racetrack. Varying height stumps through a thick woods with the logs strewn inbetween makes for a difficult trail, fast.
... i heard kelly was full of piss and vinegar? does that apply here?
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