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Started by Jeff, January 31, 2025, 10:06:00 PM

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Jeff

Cedar and I took off for the cabin for a few days. We spent the last couple days pruning trees and breaking trails. A few of the trails are inaccessible until I buck some deadfalls.

So hop on, and take a ride with Cedar and I through some of our winter trails.

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thecfarm

I 'm at the 3:38 mark and I have to get a cup of coffee.
Be right back.  :thumbsup:
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thecfarm

A very nice video.
You need an OWB to rid of all that dead wood.  ffcheesy 
That will freeze over.
Not much snow I noticed, but way more then what I have. 
I might have 6 inches on the ground and that is because of the 3 that came last night.
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Jeff

Quote from: thecfarm on February 01, 2025, 08:07:38 AMI 'm at the 3:38 mark and I have to get a cup of coffee.
Be right back.  :thumbsup:

I'll wait! I gotta take a leak anyhow.  ffcheesy
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Resonator

Trails look different with all that snow on them compared to last summer when I was there. Good idea puttin' a can on top of Mr. Case's smoke pipe! :thumbsup:
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Jeff

This happened as. We were warming up for the ride. Grouse flew down from the tree top one last time, not eating this one.

https://youtu.be/fN2sOdrpZsY?si=QUUWBzsm0TDkJ-nn
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Rhodemont

Mariann: "Where you been?"
Me:  "Ash and I took a ride on the Gator through the forest."
Mariann: "Weren't you out in the woods all day?"
Me:  "Yep"
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Jeff

Quote from: Rhodemont on February 01, 2025, 09:08:11 AMMariann: "Where you been?"
Me:  "Ash and I took a ride on the Gator through the forest."
Mariann: "Weren't you out in the woods all day?"
Me:  "Yep"
Aint much better eh?  ffsmiley
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Jeff

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Maybe it was not FB. You had a video out I replied in the comment part.
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thecfarm

Them wet spots should be a little hard now!!!!
But I have a bog that I cut off one year.
That never froze over all winter.
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cutterboy

Jeff, I enjoyed that ride. Out in the woods is my favorite place to be.
Cedar looks very serious sitting there. It seems as though he's watching intently for anything that might cross your path.
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Jeff

Quote from: thecfarm on February 02, 2025, 08:31:55 AMThem wet spots should be a little hard now!!!!
But I have a bog that I cut off one year.
That never froze over all winter.
They were! Harold came last night about 9pm. Our friend Vic has been placed in the Peninington Hospice home in Pickford and we will be going there through the next several days. Much closer than the soo. Today it is snowing and blowing and nasty. I may find the courage to go pack in the 4 or so inches we got and are getting later. Cedar is ready now. I'm having a hard time with the cold. Same way I had trouble with the sun this summer after getting burned.  I think I have a regulator malfunction. I keep at it though. Its just pain.
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hardtailjohn

Great tour!!!  Man, I sure miss having a dog!! One thing we used to do to pack our trails with the sleighs was to drag a spare tire behind in the track. Seemed to do a pretty good job.
Thanks!
JH
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Jeff

I spent much of the day in the cabin yesterday.  We got about 6 more inches if snow and this is a long driveway for a 25 year old snowblower with no reverse. It held up fine, me, not so much.  Much better this morning. We'll go see Vic again today. 

Harold and Cedar and I took a nighttime trailride and I recorded that. Or tried too. It is really a beauty in the U.P. Winter Boreal Forest in the winter that really can only be experienced first hand.





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Jeff

Last night Cedar and I went out for a ride on our now groomed trails, flattened with our new trail groomer.  That'd be an Old GMA pallot  ffcool



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Old Greenhorn

Trails look great! I was hoping you would show us your 'grading tool'. Did you put and 'blades' on it or just used a plain pallet? I have seen some very neat and very simple homemade grading drags here on the forum over the years. Whatever you used seems to work well.
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Jeff

Its just a GMA Pallot.  I got cute this morning trying to widen the trail a tad by the pond. I had an edge on the pallot bitr the bank and sucked me off the trail, high centerd on packed trail snow and tirees on glare ice under the run off side.  No where near a tree, and I only have maye 20ft of cable left on my winch. 

I spent a couple hours of high cardio effort to get it out. Lesson learned!
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thecfarm

Looks good.
I drag the 3pt winch just a little to do just about the same thing.
I also do that with the wife's tractor with the 3pt snow blower on the back. In fact, I just did it down where I saw the firewood.
I've got off my trails a few times too.  smiley_thumbsdown
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SwampDonkey

I like working and walking on flat dry ground.  Well, even flat isn't real flat in the woods is it?  ffcheesy ffcheesy But the trails are narrow on my place, basically a row of trees swamped out. So if we get deep snow, and get some thaws, and it goes crusty like in March-April when it freezes and thaws, you can't even snow shoe on them. It's like trying to wear snowshoes and walk along the peek of a roof. Not a fun walk at all.  :uhoh: A nice groomed trail is a world of difference. Even great for a kick sled on a cold morning on packed dry snow. Not enough snow here to run a ski doo very well. Lots cold, just been dry storms. Going to be dry spring unless we get 2 feet in March. Not going to get much this month.
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Jeff

Ive been wishing for a kicksled.

 I built a website about 20 years ago for the assistant director of timbermen. Timothy something or other that started with a k and ended in a zy. He built kicksleds. 

He ran for state house and I built his campaign website. He lost, and took both websites down. Wasnt my fault! ffcheesy
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SwampDonkey

Most I've seen, ones sold in Quebec and Nova Scotia come out of Finland. There isn't a lot to them, they are light, but tough to.
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Jeff

They were advertised as Norwegian Kicksleds. Bent ash. Very simple design. You could easily make Donk.
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