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 01-14-2007, 13:57 Post: 138806
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  100-acres with ATV trails--best way to do on 3rd growth forest

EW; I never built a trail in the woods, but maybe my experience of building an open front dirt floor machine shed would be of some value. In about 74 or 75 I wanted to put up a low cost dirt floor, pole shed. So happened the only logical place to put it had a row of big soft maples running right down the center of where the building would be. Anyhow we dug down a bit around the stumps and sawed them off like 2 or three inches below the soil level, then the plan was to just fill in the holes with dirt when the stumps rotted away. Right now I can only remember one time of filling in and it took surprisingly little dirt. Maybe that would work for you. We dug the holes for the poles with a borrowed 3 pt. auger, that's when I learned how well post hole augers and even 1 inch diamater treeroots get along, must have made three trips to town for another sack if shear bolts. Enjoy your day. Frank.






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EW; I think you get a gold star for tocay, just avoiding the big trees makes a lot of sense. I think the ATV folks like to zig zag around things anyhow. Frank.






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Just out of high school I got a job with a road gang. They must have been really hard up for help, about the second week on the job the boss put me on a D8 cable dozer, probably a late 40's model, I don't kmow when they got hydraulics but this old moose had the arm that came over your shoulder to run the winch to lift the blade. That thing was BIG and CLUMBSY, but it would push just about anything you put the blade against. At 18 I was on top of the world driving that old noisy dusty thing. I have no idea what they weigh, but I sure would'nt want it stuck in a swamp. Frank.






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