1 hour ago, X2700 said:

Have a new request from one of our land owners.He wants us to move his section of trail closer to woods because they can see where corn in that section of his field does not grow as tall?This field is plowed up every year!!First for me and i just shook my head!moving trail not that big of a deal but we have homes in that section of woods i can can already hear the phone calls about hearing sleds at night!!

 

I have seen and done all sorts of riding on different fields and crops over the years, with basically zero difference in crop yields or performance.  But hey, it’s their land and if they let us go on it, I don’t argue with where they want us to mark it.

My little 7 acre hay/alfalfa field, I made a point two years ago to only ride across it diagonally in the same tracks all year long, and there is no way you could tell where I rode by May 1st.

23 minutes ago, Bontz said:

It depends, but for the most part gambling does have its advantages for the club.  But it's work, and people may not realize how much goes into it (people hours plus all the expenses). It's crazy though, to see how much money can be pulled in during a given month - and then you look at the payouts, expenses, and lawful expenditures, and your net result is peanuts (or in our case most recently, a net loss!!).

 

Back to the trail topic ... 

We're heading out tomorrow (if no rain) and running the trails with our club SxS's to get the GPS/mileage information into the DNR.  I didn't realize it until our Treasurer went to the regional meeting recently, that clubs are now responsible for reporting their mileage to the DNR?  We'd normally just report the same as what was used last year, but after a couple re-routes, we're going to GPS the whole thing.  I'm kinda looking forward to it, actually.  Heck - it may be the only time I get to "ride" our trails this season (God, I hope that's not the case)!

That is interesting. Like you said when I was doing it, you used the number from previous years from DNR. As many rerouted as there have been recently its probably necessary. I know my old club was getting a grant in aid audit this fall too.

Another 2 miles done, 2 more to go

a few more from today

Looks like fun!  I enjoy being out there signing, or pulling as long as it’s not a mud fest.

7 minutes ago, Mag6240 said:

Looks like fun!  I enjoy being out there signing, or pulling as long as it’s not a mud fest.

I don't mind going out signing, we are short handed so we all have sections we do usually by ourselves, most of us have our own SxSs the section I do I was part of the original club who developed 23 years ago, so I got some skin in the game here, just wish we had more help

@Bontz don't know if your county falls into it or not but this weekend is the bonus CWD deer season.  My signing is done but I didn't get out to cut that tree yesterday but I am going to wait until next week now.  Don't want to piss off any hunters...  Lord knows I have had enough re-routes because of them damn white tales....  

4 hours ago, 01mxz800 said:

I don't mind going out signing, we are short handed so we all have sections we do usually by ourselves, most of us have our own SxSs the section I do I was part of the original club who developed 23 years ago, so I got some skin in the game here, just wish we had more help

I pack a lunch and a six pack

19 hours ago, poopooforme said:

@Bontz don't know if your county falls into it or not but this weekend is the bonus CWD deer season.  My signing is done but I didn't get out to cut that tree yesterday but I am going to wait until next week now.  Don't want to piss off any hunters...  Lord knows I have had enough re-routes because of them damn white tales....  

I hear ya on the not wanting to piss off any hunters or land owners ... not good!  Thankfully Zone 342 doesn't fall within our club's trails, so we wouldn't have impacted anyone doing the CWD hunt.

We ran out of daylight yesterday, and got about 3/4 of our trails GPS'd, including a couple of our re-routes.  Other than the chisel plow, it was actually kinda fun to get a chance and see the trails from a SxS perspective (and fix some signage).  I also "inherited" the Trail Manager role for our club and updating Ride Command, so I hope I don't F up anything with a couple of our those reroutes 

Mother Nature can start cooperating any time now ... a couple of the fields we go through were GREEN yesterday.

Out checking the beaver damn, yup, there’s at least one more still out there…

And then I found someone is taking and breaking signs!!  

Pounding signs one day, scraping the driveway the next

What's that white stuff??!?!

Gotta keep telling myself, TOMORROW is the first official day of winter and we rarely have snow/good conditions this time of year anyway.  But man, seeing 40F+ temps remaining in the forecast here is getting painful.  Heck, I saw one of the resorts up north putting out a post earlier telling people to still plan on coming up over the holidays, and suggested they bring their SxS's as there's still riding that can be done if snowmobiles can't.

4 minutes ago, Bontz said:

What's that white stuff??!?!

Gotta keep telling myself, TOMORROW is the first official day of winter and we rarely have snow/good conditions this time of year anyway.  But man, seeing 40F+ temps remaining in the forecast here is getting painful.  Heck, I saw one of the resorts up north putting out a post earlier telling people to still plan on coming up over the holidays, and suggested they bring their SxS's as there's still riding that can be done if snowmobiles can't.

And I'm sure there will be some that do.  Painful indeed.  A lot of frustrated guys at the party last night, yet we all know there isn't shit we can do about it.  It's been a good run for the last 10 years, that's for sure... 

Just now, Bontz said:

What's that white stuff??!?!

Gotta keep telling myself, TOMORROW is the first official day of winter and we rarely have snow/good conditions this time of year anyway.  But man, seeing 40F+ temps remaining in the forecast here is getting painful.  Heck, I saw one of the resorts up north putting out a post earlier telling people to still plan on coming up over the holidays, and suggested they bring their SxS's as there's still riding that can be done if snowmobiles can't.

going to be in the 40's the rest of the week, really need to plow but just put plow on wheeler and wanted to make sure I had everything good on it before the shit hit the fan

41 minutes ago, Doug said:

This weather is getting depressing.  Did some needed brushing today so we don't clip off a mirror or light.  48 deg.

Yep, not good. Possibly .75" rain on Christmas eve too. We'd be sitting good if it had been cold enough these rains were snow.

And with that I am fucking done

Dp

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Dp

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9 minutes ago, 01mxz800 said:

And with that I am fucking done

Look on the bright side .... at least the posts should have pounded in easily!!  Good to be done with it though (and thank you!) 

On a side note, I hope nobody tries to go to the right of that stop sign when the snow covers up that big ass rock.  Yikes!

6 minutes ago, Bontz said:

Look on the bright side .... at least the posts should have pounded in easily!!  Good to be done with it though (and thank you!) 

On a side note, I hope nobody tries to go to the right of that stop sign when the snow covers up that big ass rock.  Yikes!

That's why it's marked, been the same through there for 25 years no one has whacked it yet....knock on wood