High Bridge Flow Trails Status
- Thread starter Patrick
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Holy hell - if you have any formal chainsaw training please prepare to volunteer for the bucking team.
perhaps we'll rent a dingo or something with a claw to reduce cutting.
3 sawyers, 3 hours today. 50+ trees and 100ish to go (and only the easy ones were cut)
Before
end of day 1.
the ones left standing in the middle are all coming down - they need to be climbed.
if there are leaves on them, they are an oak tree. so staying.
Someone needs to come up with something creative for the 4' high stumps.
perhaps we'll rent a dingo or something with a claw to reduce cutting.
3 sawyers, 3 hours today. 50+ trees and 100ish to go (and only the easy ones were cut)
Before
end of day 1.
the ones left standing in the middle are all coming down - they need to be climbed.
if there are leaves on them, they are an oak tree. so staying.
Someone needs to come up with something creative for the 4' high stumps.
Wow. Seems like a big cleanup effort. I'm not a trained sawyer but will volunteer for manual labor moving logs and hand-sawing limbs. 4' stumps can be used as fill/retaining walls for new jumps/berms or use them as natural fence posts. Bury the cut logs in new jumps too! Big bonfire fundraiser party for the trails to get rid of some brush? Free firewood for the townsfolk? Definitely gonna need sunscreen this summer when riding here.
short answer is no.
longer answer is that there is guidance on emerald ash borer infested wood - even after the tree is dead.
the community has decided to have the logs stay in place, rather than risk any additional spread.
sounds like bonfire it is! 🔥🔥🔥
Fire Lord Jim
Well-Known Member
Let me know when. I'll cut.
There is early talk of firewood being made available to Borough residents. We'll share details when plans are approved.
We'll update everyone when the trees are on the ground and tge volunteer scope of work is approved. No timeline estimate just yet, but all involved are heavily engaged and working hard to get to the finish line.
RideOnTime
Active Member
Coming down the connector from Woodland Terrace this morning I was surprised to run into this but glad to see that the ash trees are getting taken care of. Go High Bridge!
The Woodland Terrace connector has been cleared -
In general, the work has been going well, albeit slowly. A little rain, a little politics, a holiday, and the respiratory illnesses circulating.
1 more big day should do it, as long as it doesn't get sidetracked.
Like when a 90' tree starts falling the expected way, then spins towards the sawyer (not me.) it was time to use that escape route...
Not to mention the tree is now hung in another that needs to be felled.
The bar did not survive the encounter.
In general, the work has been going well, albeit slowly. A little rain, a little politics, a holiday, and the respiratory illnesses circulating.
1 more big day should do it, as long as it doesn't get sidetracked.
Like when a 90' tree starts falling the expected way, then spins towards the sawyer (not me.) it was time to use that escape route...
Not to mention the tree is now hung in another that needs to be felled.
The bar did not survive the encounter.
iman29
Well-Known Member
yikes - all youz guyz that do the chainsaw thing I am not worthy. i get the heebie jeebies just thinking about the tree coming down wrong.
It is no joke. So many things can go wrong.
One reverse barber chaired. So it fell the opposite way while creating a giant spring that can throw the trunk or splinters in any direction.
Problem is that exit routes are planned away from the fall.
Even the predictable ones are a bit scary. Just so damn big