Barry and I Ride the Dirt Bikes and Then I Work On Getting Roots Off the Old Animal Trail

Sunday August 7, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Barry and I ride the dirt bikes

Barry showed up in the yard today with his dirt bike so I filled up mine with gas and we took off for the hills.

On the way up into the hills I realized I’d forgotten my camera.

We rode all around as usual going fairly fast today as I’m getting better at it. We stopped at all the regular places, a drink of spring water included and were home by 2:30.

Trail work

Barry took off for home and I decided to head back up in the hills and do some trail work at 3.

3 came and went and so did 4, but at 4:30 I jumped on the quad runner with my chainsaw and my other Pulaski and rode on up into the hills to the work area.

Cutting out roots day

I was going to try and remove these roots today, one at a time.

Pulaski work

I used the Pulaski first to cut the smaller roots that would get a lot of dirt in them. That root is four or five inches in diameter.

I chopped through a couple of the roots and used the Pulaski to remove dirt around them first.

I cut through these two roots.

Old shirt

I brought up an old T-shirt to tie around the root I wanted to cut to help keep the dirt and rocks out of the chainsaw cut.

Chainsaw work

And then I cut off those roots so I could use the Pulaski to dig some more roots out, so I could cut some more.

The big one

This is the largest root that needed cutting and I was trying to save the chainsaw for cutting that one as it was a little large for the Pulaski.

All prepped and ready for the cut. I’d already cut the bottom pieces with the Pulaski so it should fall off when I make this cut just below the shirt.