Loppers, and leaf blowers

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It's amazing how fast you can blaze a trail with just these two items.

Leaf blower?
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It's amazing how fast you can blaze a trail with just these two items.

Leaf blower?

Yeah, some of those gas powered ones can blow the paint off a car 🙂

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It's amazing how fast you can blaze a trail with just these two items.

Leaf blower?

Yeah, here in the east we have these things called leaves. You can get them out of the way with
one of these.

stihlusa.comBR340.htmlOpen ↗ 161 mph wind baby! That's a cat 5 hurricane.

Mike

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It's amazing how fast you can blaze a trail with just these two items.

Leaf blower?

Sure thing! The woods out back are pretty well canopied, so there's no real brush to worry with. Cut
a hole in the edge of the woods with the loppers, and off you go.

Of course I still have to do some cleanup work, and cut a small overhanging limbs, or saplings. You
just pick your path, and go. Once you get a section done, come back, and clean up any dead limbs,
and blow it off again.

The soil is very loamy, as a result of many years of leaves piling up on it, but keeping it cleaned
off (with a blower), and riding it in, should make for some nice, tight singletrack. I got about 1/3
of a mile, in just two hours by myself. Need more gas for the blower now. 🙂

try this again....

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It's amazing how fast you can blaze a trail with just these two items.

Leaf blower?

Sure thing! The woods out back are pretty well canopied, so there's no real brush to worry with. Cut
a hole in the edge of the woods with the loppers, and off you go.

Of course I still have to do some cleanup work, and cut a small overhanging limbs, or saplings. You
just pick your path, and go. Once you get a section done, come back, and clean up any dead limbs,
and blow it off again.

The soil is very loamy, as a result of many years of leaves piling up on it, but keeping it cleaned
off (with a blower), and riding it in, should make for some nice, tight singletrack. I got about 1/3
of a mile, in just two hours by myself. Need more gas for the blower now. 🙂

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Michael Dart says:

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161 mph wind baby! That's a cat 5 hurricane.

And most folks still seem to think that the street is the proper place to blow the things. We get
at least two accidents yearly due to cars skidding on wet leaves that some yahoo has blown out
into the road. I have actually had someone blow leaves straight at me while JRA. He now knows how
I feel about leaves, leaf-blowers, the yahoos that (ab)use them and the state of the universe in
general. ;-)

Steve "rake 'em you lazy sunova...."

Retro-Grouch!

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try this again....

Your clock is way out of synch - about 13 odd hours, I reckon.

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try this again....

Your clock is way out of synch - about 13 odd hours, I reckon.

you only just noticed that?

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bomba found this in the back of the refrigerator:

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try this again....

Your clock is way out of synch - about 13 odd hours, I reckon.

you only just noticed that?

Actually, my server was doing what yours was yesterday (or day before). Though I killfiled myself.

Mojo Deluxe found this in the back of the refrigerator:

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bomba found this in the back of the refrigerator:

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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:24:23 -0600, Mojo Deluxe wrote:

> try this again....

Your clock is way out of synch - about 13 odd hours, I reckon.

you only just noticed that?

Actually, my server was doing what yours was yesterday (or day before). Though I killfiled myself.

well maybe, but your clock is and has been way off for weeks now... I mark "all read" and then your
posts appear much later, buried in stuff from hours ago.

penny

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> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:24:23 -0600, Mojo Deluxe wrote:
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>> try this again....
>
> Your clock is way out of synch - about 13 odd hours, I reckon.

you only just noticed that?

Actually, my server was doing what yours was yesterday (or day before). Though I killfiled
myself.

well maybe, but your clock is and has been way off for weeks now... I

mark

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"all read" and then your posts appear much later, buried in stuff from hours ago.

Now I'm confused as to what to do about it. My computer clock, and the date are correct. Could it be
a server thing?

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well maybe, but your clock is and has been way off for weeks now... I mark "all read" and then
your posts appear much later, buried in stuff from hours ago.

Now I'm confused as to what to do about it. My computer clock, and the date are correct. Could it
be a server thing?

If you are using Windows check the time zone setting.

Matt

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Mojo Deluxe wrote: <snip>

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well maybe, but your clock is and has been way off for weeks now... I mark "all read" and then
your posts appear much later, buried in stuff from hours ago.

Now I'm confused as to what to do about it. My computer clock, and the date are correct. Could
it be a server thing?

If you are using Windows check the time zone setting.

Just did....it's on Central like it should be.

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Michael Dart says:

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161 mph wind baby! That's a cat 5 hurricane.

And most folks still seem to think that the street is the proper place to

blow

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the things. We get at least two accidents yearly due to cars skidding on

wet

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leaves that some yahoo has blown out into the road. I have actually had someone blow leaves
straight at me while JRA. He now knows how I feel

about

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leaves, leaf-blowers, the yahoos that (ab)use them and the state of the universe in general. ;-)

Steve "rake 'em you lazy sunova...."

The street?!!! Nah, I just blow 'em into my neighbors yard. ;^)

Mike

I hate leaves on the trail and even more in the wheels,brakes,chain,cassette,and derailleur.

Fire up MTB 03

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Yeah, here in the east we have these things called leaves. You can get them out of the way with one
of these.

Yeah, but I never thought of them as an impediment to riding....but now that you've said it it is
kind of dicy not knowing what's under there until they get worn down a little.
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Yeah, here in the east we have these things called leaves. You can get

them

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out of the way with one of these.

Yeah, but I never thought of them as an impediment to riding....but now

that

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you've said it it is kind of dicy not knowing what's under there until

they get

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worn down a little.
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PeteCresswell

In my part of the world (and many others I must assume) "trail" is defined primarily by the absence
of leaves. As in "ride where they ain't." It can get a little dicey in the fall when leaves drop
because then all you've got to go by is a faint depression in ground and your own memory. Besides,
they have a tendency to get wet and cause rapid dirt-face collisions.

Tom

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Yeah, here in the east we have these things called leaves. You can get

them

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out of the way with one of these.

Yeah, but I never thought of them as an impediment to riding....but now

that

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you've said it it is kind of dicy not knowing what's under there until

they get

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worn down a little.
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PeteCresswell

In my part of the world (and many others I must assume) "trail" is defined primarily by the
absence of leaves. As in "ride where they ain't." It

can

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get a little dicey in the fall when leaves drop because then all you've

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to go by is a faint depression in ground and your own memory. Besides,

they

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have a tendency to get wet and cause rapid dirt-face collisions.

Leave are a great camouflage for an endo waiting to happen.

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I hate leaves on the trail and even more in the wheels,brakes,chain,cassette,and
derailleur.

Fire up MTB 03

Yes, but a thin layer of leaves will protect the trail in winter months. They break the impact of
rain drops and eventually get ground up and add to the base. Which is why we don't clean the trail
totally of them here in Virginia. It's also the one time of year you can slide your rear wheel
around corners and not tear up the trail. ;^)

Mike