Statements in Stone (Part II)

[radair]

I didn't get any riding in this past weekend. The cause was not Christmas shopping, family commitments or anything other than my choice.

A friend and I have been building a reroute on the neo-classic Red Tail Trail, cutting out 100 yards of ugly wet skidder road and replacing it with 300 yards of beautiful singletrack. The two legs of singletrack meet at a relatively steep switchback around a big hemlock tree. We wanted this section to be bombproof and maintenance free. Fortunately, we are blessed with the finest collection of huge flat stones I have ever seen in one place. So far, Michael & I have put in over 50 hours in this one section, with maybe 30 more hours yet to go. But it is going to be stunning, if I do say so myself.

When complete, this bermed stone corner will wrap to the right of the tree with the tools leaning against it. I can hardly wait to work on it again. Come ride it with us in '07, eh?

[FriedRys]

Amazing.

[Husqvarna]

Wow, nice work. Looks like you found the Fort Knox of armoring stone.

[Slappy]

That is awesome. My back frigging hurts just looking at it!

:D

[radair]

Thanks guys. I have been amazed at the size of the rocks we've been able to move with two rock bars. It helps that the biggest ones have been uphill of where they needed to end up.

[ArmOnFire]

Wow, that looks awesome.
Nice job Rob!
-dan

[hogboy]

if you care to drag a car hood out there with ya (a junkyard hood) you can heave boulders on it and tow it a surprising distance with a good 20 foot rope on it. stone boat. old honda civic hoods are great for moving huge flat rocks

[CouchingTiger]

Radair, that is a SWEET section of Pave'.

I second Hogboy's suggestion. My dad always used old hoods to skid rocks behind his 4 wheeler for whatever project he had going that needed rocks. Works great (assuming you have an old hood lying around).

-Couch

[C.P.]

if you care to drag a car hood out there with ya (a junkyard hood) you can heave boulders on it and tow it a surprising distance with a good 20 foot rope on it. stone boat. old honda civic hoods are great for moving huge flat rocks

Nice rock work Radair. REAL nice. You guys take "before" pics too?

RE: a car hood...who would'a thunk it...not too long ago, a few of us were discussing ways to move rock through the woods (in Borderland), someone mentioned some kind of a sled might work (I think DVRider), looks like we'll have to try out that hood thing for the real tough pulls where the MuckTruck cant get access.

[radair]

Nice rock work Radair. REAL nice. You guys take "before" pics too?...

Have just a couple 'before' pics, but a bunch of in-process ones. I'm expecting a new camera today, so hopefully I'll get some better quality shots before the snow flies.

This is a bit of a remote spot to bring a car hood, but I'd like to pick one up for future projects. We've done some dragging of huge planks in the winter on sleds. Snow makes things a lot easier.

[hogboy]

Have just a couple 'before' pics, but a bunch of in-process ones. I'm expecting a new camera today, so hopefully I'll get some better quality shots before the snow flies.

This is a bit of a remote spot to bring a car hood, but I'd like to pick one up for future projects. We've done some dragging of huge planks in the winter on sleds. Snow makes things a lot easier.


a car hood on snow could be way better than planks, depending
on certain circumstances and of course, has the hood been used
as a stone boat before and is it dented to hell ?

in summer, a car hood can float tons o rock if you are pulling
with a vehicle. if you are pulling by hand, yeah it's gonna
be tougher...so use less rock (maybe 400lbs ro so) and two
people pulling... it'll manage fine except on steeps. hook fat rope
(ort even better, chain) to the center hood latch hoop thingy and
pull hard

steel on rock/forest duff is quite slippy, making stone-boating possible