Can't do without my Peoples Bridge Hammock when building mountain bike trails. 3 or 4 hours of muscling rocks out of the ground with my walk-behind tractor and rotary plow followed by a nice long nap enables another couple of hours of work.
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I used to carry the pack and spreader bars in a daypack while riding the mountain bike to the work area, but the spreaders were a nuisance, so I have switched to a PBH with pockets and can cut spreaders from a dead pine branch. I just leave them behind for use the next day.
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This is potentially a method for ultralight backpacking. In the morning, just cut up the spreaders and cook breakfast in a wood stove.
I've been too busy working on these trails for the last two years to do this, though.
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Cutting bench trails on a side slope brings up a lot of rocks. All but the biggest of these were tossed out by the rotary plow - not in a neat line like this, though. I had to do some collecting and hauling to get them ready to "armor" this spongey area of the trail - many small roots in the organic soil. Now to set them in place ...
Pulaski riding on rotary plow.jpg
The biggest half dozen of these rocks required persuasion by the Pulaski, which rides on the safety bar of the rotary plow, like a lifeboat on a ship.
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