Too early??  Nah.... got the mower all cleaned up, oil changed on the RZR -let’s go testing!

Good work 👌. I had no idea they made mowers for sxs that’s pretty sweet.

2 hours ago, 800renegaderider said:

Good work 👌. I had no idea they made mowers for sxs that’s pretty sweet.

Looks to be a trail/brush mower.  You can pull them behind anything with a hitch hook-up

23 hours ago, Mag6240 said:

Too early??  Nah.... got the mower all cleaned up, oil changed on the RZR -let’s go testing!

Back when I was involved with my old club the trail work was a year round process. Nice work

2 hours ago, Doug said:

Got some trail work done by the cabin but it is wet in some places.  Got stuck twice 

Nice work

No chain sawing yet but got this 1000’ swamp mowed down today.  
 

16 hours ago, Mag6240 said:

No chain sawing yet but got this 1000’ swamp mowed down today.  
 

Nice job

16 hours ago, Mag6240 said:

No chain sawing yet but got this 1000’ swamp mowed down today.  
 

I can just picture that with good snow & being freshly groomed ... nice!!

12 hours ago, Doug said:

And my wife always ready to take a picture but not get out to help.  Hooking up the winch to get out.  The first time.

Better than no help at all

I get to do another, ANOTHER reroute this year.  Last year was a huge change this year not quite as bad.  However this year is because of fucking white tails.  "ahh I don't ahh they don't bed down in my grove because of you snowmobiliers..."  FFS I have driven by deer and coulda tapped em on the nose.  They don't care about sleds but whatever....

On 9/8/2021 at 5:42 PM, Doug said:

And my wife always ready to take a picture but not get out to help.  Hooking up the winch to get out.  The first time.

Better that scenario than what our trail coordinator went through yesterday.  He was mowing one of our hill road/trails, and thankfully he was closer to the bottom than the top .... but he ran the tractor down about 30 feet off the side.  The tractor didn't roll (thank God) but it gave him a helluva scare and did some carnage to the tractor.  We had it pulled out today and put on a flatbed to get it to a local JD dealership for an estimate.  It definitely could have been a lot worse, so we're thankful our season didn't start off on a worse note.

Last of the cat-tails last night - almost felt like the first snow!

 

5 minutes ago, Doug said:

Weather permitting where going to replace a culvert tomorrow on the trails around home.

Can't ask for much better weather (temps, anyway) than what we've got going on right now.  I just watched the extended forecast and it's still looking pretty mild.  Personally, I like some of the cooler temps for trail work ... like bridge decking and sawing logs/trees.

45 minutes ago, Bontz said:

Can't ask for much better weather (temps, anyway) than what we've got going on right now.  I just watched the extended forecast and it's still looking pretty mild.  Personally, I like some of the cooler temps for trail work ... like bridge decking and sawing logs/trees.

Yeah, agreed.  Lots of time yet, besides a day to do groomer maintenance, we don't have that much left to do this year, besides see how many fields need to be rolled.  Oh and signing.  But we usually wait until Thanksgiving week to do that.

Edited October 7, 20215 yr by Mag6240

Got a few more places finished up today

 

Bridge work for us this past weekend ... it sure is nice being able to work on a bridge this size vs. the 90-foot span we had to re-deck last  year!!

 

On 9/7/2021 at 7:34 PM, Mag6240 said:

No chain sawing yet but got this 1000’ swamp mowed down today.  
 

Dose yours not have a offset option ? 

Makes mowing especaly brush much more ez when you can mount pull bar all the way to 1 side so it hangs past pull rig almost as wide as deck. If your won't do it I would suggest the club buys a offset tow bar.

15 hours ago, Ez ryder said:

Dose yours not have a offset option ? 

Makes mowing especaly brush much more ez when you can mount pull bar all the way to 1 side so it hangs past pull rig almost as wide as deck. If your won't do it I would suggest the club buys a offset tow bar.

It does - but I find it easier to pull it directly behind the RZR.  Tracks crush down some as I go and takes a little stress off the mower on the initial pass.

We bought this cutter a couple years ago.  Its slow going but does a good job where we were using pole saws for everything.  I would have rather a rotary cutter but whatever...

1 hour ago, Doug said:

Marked some trails today.  Here's a sign that one of our club members made to hopefully help keep the trial open.

Jackoffs will see that and think it says pinch the flipper....  I am loosing faith with people for what its worth....

Any of your clubs use one of these ? 

Looks like it would work pretty good? 

If do tractor or sxs mounted ? 

https://stoutdesignsllc.com/

5 hours ago, Ez ryder said:

Any of your clubs use one of these ? 

Looks like it would work pretty good? 

If do tractor or sxs mounted ? 

https://stoutdesignsllc.com/

Looks like it could be functional, but the ATV mounted one doesn’t reach high enough.

47 minutes ago, Mag6240 said:

Looks like it could be functional, but the ATV mounted one doesn’t reach high enough.

No not at all even the 6 blade sxs one is not tall enough . 

Our club trails are all signed, brushed and graded up. Just need cold and snow now. Got up for at least one days worth of trail cleanup and the club fundraiser dinner. 

Yep, we finished our trails down this way too ... I guess that's one bonus of decent weather (40's).  Now I just hope our trails actually get some use this season ... I think last year, we realistically had about a week of decent riding conditions - although it was colder than hell for that particular week.

@Doug Thank you for your service to our sport. 

Our trails have been close for about 14 days. We are very blessed to be in an area where we do not have to remove hardly any signing seasonally except for stakes marking Lake St. Croix. We have very few private land owners, and our trails are almost exclusively on County land, or protected by state easements on what used to be land owned by the paper companies. Thus, no seasonal signage to put up and take down like you have in farm country. 

When we close our trails, we have a very narrow window to mow our swamps before our creeks start opening up and our swamps start to open up. We have sections of trail that we can only get to when the ground is frozen, so we tend to immediately transition from grooming, to mowing within a couple of days.