never seen dry stone wall man - who does it on footpaths- but have seen his work
More worryongly he has also put wooden planks with nails sticking upwards into the mud and hidden in undergrowth or at the side of blockades - utterly dangerous nutter
Lowey found some of these and pooste dn here as well as his blog
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who are the nutters who put sticks across woodland trails?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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in Wharncliffe its the forester
Never experienced any of this there myself (and I'm there quite a bit!)
Although that's as famous last words as it gets I suppose...
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was out around south delamere last night and someone (within the last week) had dragged an entire dead tree - only a small one mind (4-5m long) across the trail
noticed plenty of dog walkers around that part of the forest last week, but that tree completely blocked all users from using that track
quick stop and two minutes later and the trail was cleared and biking resumed
why? because some people are cocks
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A lot of perpendicular to the trail sticks are the work of those 4 legged trail vandals! Dogs carry branches and logs like that and then just drop them. Of course the big ones are down to the work of potential punchbags.
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Most of it here, happily, is more an annoyance than a danger. But some of the stick putters seem to have realised that branches on a diagonal are more irritating than perpendicular ones. Even so, if they're a few inches or less thick you can still just ride over them, r deal with in whatever way you fancy.
Ironically, my main objection is for walking - it just makes the paths much more annoying to walk on, screws up the aesthetic of a meandering woodland track and - most importantly are a bloody hazard when you walk in the dark. I realise that I'm probably the only one that actually walks through the woods in the pitch, but boy does it screw things up when you trip over something that isn't supposed to be there.
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I keep hoping I'll catch one of these miserable sods in action one day.
Then murder them and bury them in the woods. No-one knows they're there, do they? So, the perfect crime.
Maybe torture them over a period of time too, for added fun.
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We came accross one old chappie several years ago laying logs & branches over the trail whilst riding near Bournemouth Airport.
He was a bit sheepish but stated it wasn't for the cyclists but to stop the motorbikers! (There were no marks that they have been there!).
So we happily hopped/rode over the logs in front of his eyes and said good luck!
Don't often ride there but never seen them since.
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To change the subject very slightly, I ran into a bunch of pikeys on a canal towpath once, burning insulation off some probably stolen copper wiring. Their alsatian jumped in front of me... I was going very fast to avoid a mugging. The dog bounced off my front tyre, yelping. I didn't stop!
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it's riders removing perfectly hop/jumpable branches to dumb down my local trails that piss me off
Hi Paul
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They've been doing it in those woods for a couple of years now Martin. Everytime I'm out for a trail run, I clear them, then the next day they are back!!! I keep thinking I'll catch them at it, but ridden the woods many times each week at all times of day and never seen them. I did wonder if they thought they were targeting the kids on motorbikes, but you couldn't get a motorbike on some of those tracks. We've improved our skills immensely because of them :D., but the principle of it still hacks me off!!!
If you fancy a ride some time, drop me a mail
Simon
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Well I took a tumble after some strategicly placed fence wire caught my pedal a couple of days ago. Straight over the bars and into a bed of stinging nettles & brambles. Still itching. Lucky though if I'd landed to the right it would have been a face full of barbed wire.
Not impressed.
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I split my knee open on one of the shifters a couple of weeks ago as someone had put a large branch across a downhill woodland descent.
I couldn't avoid it as it was the width of the trail and almost stopped in time but not quite. I couldn't ride over it as a bend in the middle made it too high.
I was a less than happy bunny - there were loads more of them further down the descent too.
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Never mind the sticks. What about the dog poo bags that are hung in the trees at head height. Deposited there by ar5eh0le dog walkers.
Gives a new meaning to sh1thead.
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Waderider - Member
...No need to tar all walkers with the same brush as above - I enjoy a good ramble, and have a walking pole
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Some cnt keeps putting large logs into a hollow on one of my local trails,always straight up like a tiger trap!
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Simon,
a ride would be great but your email addy doesn't seem to be working
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