Haven't been on there in ages. Is that the approach to the teeter totter? Is that going to be back working again as well. Would be good fun to hit that whole line up again.
Thanks for your efforts.
Haven't been on there in ages. Is that the approach to the teeter totter? Is that going to be back working again as well. Would be good fun to hit that whole line up again.
Thanks for your efforts.
Haven't been on there in ages. Is that the approach to the teeter totter? Is that going to be back working again as well. Would be good fun to hit that whole line up again.
Thanks for your efforts.
yes, that's the approach to the teeter. i'm having to change the approach up a bit to allow for other changes that have happened to the trail. the teeter teeter may have to be changed into a down ramp as per the dnv but i'm going to work on allowing this feature to stay as the teeter.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
and voila, you're now ready to put a new stringer in place and just nail everything down.
Cool technique, never seen that done before
picked up a bean machine for making stringers, best trail building investment i have ever made,
ps - no elephants were harmed in the making of this post or the stringers.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
where'd you pick that up Mark? Pretty cool add-on…
where'd you pick that up Mark? Pretty cool add-on…
i got it at pacific arborist in nvan but you can also buy them online - shipping may set you back a few bucks though.
to make them work well for longer beams (i cut some 18fters) you need a few things:
- chalk line
- some straight 2x4's
- framing square (i got a cheap aluminum one and just leave it in the forest)
- a 6ft level and a torpedo level
- screw gun and some 4" wood screws
i keep the 2x4's in the forest and at the end of the day screw then together to keep them from warping. my screw gun is a smaller 12v milwuakee and has more than enough punch to drive a 4" screw. the chalk line is to set up a straight line for the 2x4's and the level is to run alongside them when you need to butt them together for longer cuts. the square is to help you set up your second cut to make sure it's square with the first. the torpedo level is to set the top of the 2x4's level for your first cut. you'll also need some wedges to help set the 2x4's level but i just split some from scraps of wood lying around.
the first time i set it up i took a few extra minutes to get it all sorted and after that it goes pretty quick. it makes cutting beams/stringers way faster and it's so much better nail rungs down to a nice flat and consistent surface. how you do your first cut will depend on the quality and diameter of the log you have and the size of the bar on your saw.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
Lee Valley sells them.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/Wood/page.aspx?p=20126[HTML_REMOVED]cat=1,41131
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Pretty neat, inexpensive setup
Why are you cutting the stringer on the sides and underneath too???
some of the log rides on my trail slimed up over time and were a bit greasey to ride in the wet and in need of getting cleaned up. i had an idea of a qucik way to do it but with the great weather we've had for the past five months it's been a low priority. the nice thing is that the good weather and increased traffic meant that riders were slowly wearing the sruface of the log clean. you can see this with woodwork that gets regular traffic - the surface always stays clean. so while the log rides had improved, they still needed to be cleaned off.
one suggestiong to clean off the log was to simply use an adz which is very similar to the mattock i used to top the log rides in the forst place. i also had some other slab sections to clean off that weren't perfectly flat where an adze wouldn't work and the same things for the rungs on the teeter totter bridge. old school idea for cleaning off rungs is to use a wire brush to scrub off the slime. it's labour intensive but you get pretty good results. you can see the difference here between the clean and the slimey rungs:
i didn't relish the idea of cleaning a few hundred foot logs with a hand held wire brush though and even topping them again with an adze would take a few hours each. so i turned to something else. it worked great and was wicked fast, i was able to clean the surface of this entire log in about 30 minutes.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
Nice! So you humped a generator into Salvation? Or did you get your truck up the powerlines? Great idea.
Nice! So you humped a generator into Salvation? Or did you get your truck up the powerlines? Great idea.
felt like a good workout so i packed the gennie up the hill from old buck.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
lol - just kidding.
i hauled it in from the corkscrew parking lot and it was one of those smaller inverter generators. but between my pack with tools/chainsaw in it and the generator it was about 100lbs of tools. it got the heart rate up pretty good, especially coming back up the hill.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
lol - just kidding.
i hauled it in from the corkscrew parking lot and it was one of those smaller inverter generators. but between my pack with tools/chainsaw in it and the generator it was about 100lbs of tools. it got the heart rate up pretty good, especially coming back up the hill.
No doubt! Great work. Thank you for your efforts. :clap:
No doubt! Great work. Thank you for your efforts. :clap:
hey, you're welcome. i get out there mostly b/c it's a ton of fun and i have some good things planned for the future so stay tuned.
We don't know what our limits are, so to start something with the idea of being limited actually ends up limiting us.
Ellen Langer
Excellent idea with the angle grinder syncro!
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