[Closed] Why the feck do people put branches/logs across the trails? Possible walker rant

Because they are stupid.

Maybe it is other MTB'ers so they can practise bunny hops?

Stupid and ****ing dangerous!! One incident where three had been laid together on top of an (ex) nice little jump! These arseholes are actually going out of their way at the moment to ruin it. What next, cheese wire between trees!!

Saw some broken glass at the entrance to one of the trails near me the other week. It wasn't just a discarded bottle either, it must have been 6 or 7 bottles, broken and scattered strategically to catch people out.

ramblers.

It wasn't just a discarded bottle either, it must have been 6 or 7 bottles, broken and scattered strategically to catch people out.

Now that is just ****ed up. As its going to muller dogs and other animals as well.

I don't think I've ever seen ramblers broken up, and spread over the entrance to trails, Where was this Iwanttoseeyournutts?

Horse riders do it to practice jumps...not out of vindictiveness!..I had it for a while on a local bridleway..kept finding pine logs until I invented MTB Caber tossing... Top tip horsey types won't venture into brambles to fish em out 😆

its so you can practice your jumps or bunny hop around them...you dont want it too easy now do you.. 😉 saying that i was at whinlatter the other week and my back wheel caught someones discarded juice bottle and it litterally threw off the berm ! i went one way-the bike went t'other way..lol

These arseholes are actually going out of their way at the moment to ruin it. What next, cheese wire between trees!!

They've been doing this since I can remember (20 years of MTBing) - it's not exactly new. The trick is to learn to use them as an obstacle to ride over, not to see them as one you're going to have to stop for.

Not usually horses the ones I see, no hoofprints nearby and very definitely placed with the addition of damage to the jumps/trails/berms created.

Was happening a lot last winter on a footpath near me; mtbers kept removing them and their persistence paid off in the end.

a footpath

I was walking my dogs across the wyre forest a few weeks back and stumbled into fellow dog walker who was laying branches across the trails (button oak side). I have spend most of some walks removing said branches in the past.

I stopped and asked politely what was he up to, he had a rant about bikers ruining the paths and that he wouldn't care if injury would occur whilst crashing into said logs etc at which point I had to mention that I ride these trails. Slight pause from him followed by a polite but firm session of finger pointing and reminding him what a low life he was etc and we went on our merry way.

Hopefully he got the message. But in a word TIT

WE get a fair bit of this down on the Chase, usually in the same area. Small minded, miserable, spiteful old farts who have nothing better to do with their time.
No idea if they go out in packs or work alone. Most of the trails this happens on, couldn't be walked easily. I ride at various times of day/night and never see "ramblers" and very few "dog walkers" down this particular area.
I just hope I am fortunate to see one do this at some point.

FTR I am not saying all ramblers and dog walkers are small minded, miserable, spiteful old farts. Just the ones who put branches/logs/glass etc in such places to cause harm.

Round our way someone keeps putting tacks on the foot/bike path in Attenborough nature reserve. Partner has had one puncture on daily commute but I keep thinking about poor dogs ending up running through them.

Hateful ****ers. They don't want anyone else to have any fun or enjoy life as they are so bitter...

Some Herbert did this on part of the HTN course back in February. Half a dozen 3" diameter logs across the track after we'd marked it out. They were clearly not rebellious enough to take down several hundred metres of tape and signs... a few big sticks... that'll show 'em!

Did they think that it would make us a cancel the event?

Some people are just silly.

Should we all start laying cables on all trailside logs?
That'll teach em!

I had to move a few around the shooting cabin and kinder reservoir last week 👿

I think if I ever caught someone doing it, I'd cheerfully explain that they're absolutely right, fight fire with fire, I've been laying down poison for their dogs for weeks after all.

(note to the keyboard warriors - that was a joke...!)

But its a damn fine idea though?

I certainly dont advocate it but the 'its dangerous' argument is a it of an own goal for the log layers. If the logs are dangerous - youre going to fast - it could equally be a person (or a dog) that you unexpectantly come across.

youre going to fast

No such thing. 😀

Horse riders do it to practice jumps...not out of vindictiveness!..I had it for a while on a local bridleway..kept finding pine logs until I invented MTB Caber tossing... Top tip horsey types won't venture into brambles to fish em out

Dunno but in it was all fast dry trails back in the day so you zoomed along your hardtail.

Dented my downtube from a ****ing log. Now I hop past.

At least they can't **** up the roads with logs.

What next, cheese wire between trees!!

I've been yanked off my bike by bailing twine before now. I have a scar on each upper arm to prove it. The good person in me likes to think it was nothing vindictive, but it was right across a bridleway

but it was right across a bridleway

phyncra - Member
I certainly dont advocate it but the 'its dangerous' argument is a it of an own goal for the log layers. If the logs are dangerous - youre going to fast...

+1

But I would still want to snot the scumbag who was laying out the traps. 🙂

As said above, the only people i've ever seen walking some of these trails was my kids and mrs! God knows when they do it?? And as for going too fast, the one that caught me out properly was nicely placed just a foot or so down from the top of a slope so you couldn't see it till the last minute!

pretty popular round the Deepcar end of Wharncliffe woods - on the trails near the conservation area - never seen the person but the efforts are feeble but boringly consistent

used to be an old guy near the Grenoside end that would throw sticks and stones as i passed - i presume that i was eventually right and that one day he would pick on someone who didn't find it so amusing - i presume his dog is guarding his shallow grave

Out in the California this kind of sh1t happens all the time & worse..I know one race where it is fairly normal practice to sweep the course with a huge magnet before hand..You should have seen the amount of nails & tacks that caught!

Drawing Pins on Brocton Hill got me last week, nice for the Dogs/Dogwalkers though i'm sure.

Drawing Pins is walkers, not dog owners or other trail users. Ramblers should be shot on sight.

Drawing Pins is walkers, not dog owners or other trail users. Ramblers should be shot on sight.

I know it would be Ramblers/Walkers, i was being sarcastic about the Dogs and Dogwalkers as i'm not a fanboy of them.

Ramblers should be pitied not shot IMHO 😆

Happened to me a couple of years ago at the bottom af a S shaped decent.

I watched the guy pull a log across the trail as he heard me and some others coming , then walked quickly away.

As we all bunny hopped over it we all waved and said a cheery good morning.

He looked mighty p****d 😆

Drawing pins! What a set of tuncs!! Could that not be considered as out and out criminal damage!! It's not your average thing to be caught "carrying" 🙂

Do you think there is a parallel thread on a horsey site talking about annoying ****ers who keep moving their jumps?

Not sure john! Hopefully it would go more along the lines of "what is it with all the good looking middle aged, paunchy men out riding bikes at the moment."

Same **** happens here in NM, USA. As I posted a couple weeks ago on a thread, a biker hit a thin, stainless steel wire stretched between 2 trees on a narrow singletrack downhill trail. He was only bruised as he hit it chest-high rather than his neck or face. As it was on National Forest land, the Forest Service staked out the area and caught a guy who lived adjacent to the forest land stringing up another wire. Big fine and 90 days in jail. The nails & broken glass has been done as well as people breaking off pieces of Cholla cactus and laying them in low spots on the trail covered with sand

Not quite the same league but,

Mate of mine rode the Leeds > Liverpool this week. He was telling me he rode past an angler, gave him a cheery "good morning!" as he rode past and got the reply "piss off."

And -we- have a bad press.

go on a canoeing forum and find about anglers - they win the award for being selfish uncts

I broke my little finger a few months ago, where someone wedged half a scaffolding plank in a bush at handle bar height on a nice right hand bend at the bottom of a short decent into a hollow, where it is usual to skim the gorse bushes at the low point.

I have occasionally met a few doddery old farts along this section of trail who have passed the odd sarcastic comment as I have passed (most likely thinking I was out of earshot - I once replied wit a "jealosy will get you nowhere" to which I got an earful of abuse). I can only think it was one of these happy souls making their lives more meaningful. Oh and I know if was a scaff plank as it had the metal protection on one end of the plank.

I would have happily wrapped the said plank around the side of whoever's head was responsible. Though the plank would have most likely come off worse.