Fixing a Trail That's Always Muddy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- This Bike Trail is always muddy. There's a natural spring that dumps right into the trail and even with the small water bars there were put in place by the original trail builder, this trail would never dry. Before the trails opened for the season, Hailey and I went out and and dug the existing water bars deeper, and extended them down the hill. In addition, we dug a water bar along the full length of the trail on either side and used the excavated dirt to raise the height the height of the trail which helps keep the riding surface dry.
We collected and hauled in rocks from a nearbye stream and build a rock bridge over the water bar. To prevent the rocks from moving, we used crushed rock to give it a firm bed and then cut up small a tree to use as stakes. The stakes were hammered into the ground to help anchor the rocks in place. Afterwords we placed crush rock mixed and covered that with dirt on the primary riding surface, in the areas that would see the most amount of mud.
I love these trail fix videos and want to see even more. They give me inspiration to fix up my local trails and some good insight on how to fix problems!
@bailey taylor Every trail will need to be fixed up eventually if you want to ride it. Seeing the process from a start to finish is great and there's always something you can learn from trail building videos.
As mountain bikers, we have a responsability on the terrain we ride. It's great to see that some people care about it. Thanks for the video and congratulations to you both!
Working my first trail rehab project this last week. Got a few seriously muddy stretches of trail to fix up. This video was a big help. Thanks so much for posting. 👊🌲🌳💪💖
Looking for a way to fix my muddy mountain trails...this'll help. Not counting horsepower, you two remind me of me & my Sassy Sasquatch, right down to her purple shirt and hair style: D
That is very insightful, thank you!
Great work guys those rocks are pretty big you gotta mind your backs so you can keep up this awesome work. Keep it in mind.
Nice vid I love the new content
Me too dude
I had a soggy back yard in washington. I laid down a couple layers of cedar boughs the leaf like green parts. It worked for me to move trailers in and out of the yard. Always wanted to try it on bike trails. I bet it will work nicely
That’s not too different than how they build logging roads in marshlands. Usually they’ll sandwich logs between two layers of a road fabric.
Thanks for posting this, very helpful!
Nice work. It would be cool if you had some voiceover during the timelapse or maybe even a recap expaining what you did and why. I'm sure your plans change a bit while doing the work but it would be nice to have/hear some explanation.
This channel is going to stay low effort on the production side of things. I just want to have a place for things that are somewhat interesting but otherwise would normally just sit on a hard drive never to be posted anywhere.
Good stuff man!!!
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Hi Phil!!
Cochrans? you guys are great!
I subbed
Nice
Phil where are you getting the music for these videos?
Hi!
I love a good trail construction 👷♂️👷♀️ time-lapse. Keep em coming!
Why not build a boardwalk or skinny across soggy areas? It seems like less work and intrusive to the environment of the forrest
Lumber cost money & you need to haul all the lumber into place. Dirt and rocks are free and the work we did was very minimally intrusive.
Rocks much better and do less damage long run , boardwalk rot, end up a hazard , leave nails n stuff lying about rocks are just natural and water will be unimpeded by them .
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4th comment :)
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Hey Phil. Good building content. Like the amount of graft you put in on these vids. Couple of pointers I though you might appreciate. Get perforated drain pipe for your water bars. Cheap to buy and stoos the organic blocking it up over time. Trust me you will be forever clearing out the ditch without it. And try not to log line your trails. Carefully placed boulder or sideways log to direct traffic is better. Log lining traps water.
The Ditch is already filled with Rocks, no need to bury any Plastic in the forest :D