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Sadly, by the time the decomposition and moisture start to break the stuff down it'll be next year and another crop will be growing. Removing the stuff might be accomplished if you had a powerful mower with a side-chute to chuck the stuff to the side of the trail. Miss a few and you could be in trouble, tho. I think the powerful mower/side-chute is the rout I'm going to take....and then let decomposition clean up the leftovers. Next spring, I'll give it another wack with the moser/side-chute and maybe a couple more during the summer. The blackberries will just keep coming, but they aren't a puncture problem until the canes get fairly large and the thorns start to harden off. -- PeteCresswell |
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(Pete Cresswell) wrote:
RE/ Sadly, by the time the decomposition and moisture start to break the stuff down it'll be next year and another crop will be growing. Removing the stuff might be accomplished if you had a powerful mower with a side-chute to chuck the stuff to the side of the trail. Miss a few and you could be in trouble, tho. I think the powerful mower/side-chute is the rout I'm going to take....and then let decomposition clean up the leftovers. Next spring, I'll give it another wack with the moser/side-chute and maybe a couple more during the summer. The blackberries will just keep coming, but they aren't a puncture problem until the canes get fairly large and the thorns start to harden off. Once you get a little ST nestled in there and packed down, things should be ok. -- o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o www.schnauzers.ws |
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ST ? -- PeteCresswell |
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(Pete Cresswell) wrote:
RE/ ST ? Single track. Bill "fertile mind" S. |
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Right now, I think that, if I go to the county and don't get anywhere, I'll try my 38" rotary deck on a couple hundred feet of it. This deck has pretty good suction/exhaust power and blows the stuff to one side. Worked like a charm....I can see dirt on almost all 5 miles of it... If I can ride it back-and-forth couple times tomorrow without flatting I'll call it a wrap... -- PeteCresswell |
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Are there many people riding this trail or is it just you? A few weeks of dirt bikes ripping through there and there will be no signs of life left to worry about. It's just me right now. It started while I was working at a building on the trail and clearing a couple miles would get me a route home without contending with traffic. Then my contract expired last month, so time was heavy on my hands and I got this wild hair up my butt about clearing more of it. I rode it yesterday without flatting - so I guess the finish mower did the job. Actually, it's a miserable ride - boring (flat and straight) and bumpy (1800's railroad ballast - looks like big cinders). Normally, I cringe when I hear about perfectly-good hardpack being "improved"...but paving this thing will definately be an improvement. Check out http://www.montcopa.org/parks/ChesterValley_trail.htm for the big picture. The parts I cleared are along a five mile stretch that's off the map where the black dots stop on the lower edge at Wold Eagle School Road and 202. That web site is Montgomery County's. "My" part is in Chester County. -- PeteCresswell |
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Are there many people riding this trail or is it just you? Although I'm the only one riding it, I met four runners while riding it yesterday. There's a big financial company on one end of it and a health club about two miles down from the company. Part of my rationalization is that having something there and in use will help counterbalance whatever forces might be at work trying to kill the project (e.g. irate adjacent property owners, people trying to balance the budget....). The project's been going on for over 11 years. -- PeteCresswell |
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