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If you call me a "pixie" I'm going to take a mattock to you.
Pah, you'll have to find the mattock first * 😳
*not really, we have now found the mattock.
Our loosely affiliated group generally sticks to clearance of existing trails and pursuit of badger trails, which usually need to be lifted and widened to produce something rideable. In this regard we are actually bringing more trails into use, but we keep it pretty low profile and don't trumpet about the location of a lot of it.
We also do some titivation of trail surfaces, mostly to improve resilience in the wet and to wooden the time of year we can ride it. Usually it's stuff like limited scale bench cutting, stone on boggy bits, etc... We're not big on putting berms and doubles all over the place though.
Well, I had a go at clearing as just got hacked off with the killer ferns that seem to have gone nuts recently. No tools but they pull up easy so just cleared them from a trail as much as I could though didn't have time to do it all! Also dug out some glass that was ready to shred a tyre or two.
Rather than pulling them up, a quick way to move them back and kill the fronds is to bend then at 90 degrees, snapping but not parting the stem. Much quicker, and a load less work. 🙂