Cutting trails.....

[Squamch]

Walking trail? Bike trail? Quad trail? Horse trail?

We use electric or manual gear for dirtbike trails, chainsaws and bumpers for truck or atv trails, and find our way around for foot trails, although I do carry a pocketboy if necessary.

[Stone Sheep Steve]

Lithium battery sawsall with a couple batteries.

But personally, I’d pack a chainsaw and gas. If you can pack an animal out, you can pack a chainsaw up there.

SSS

[358mag]

Isnt trail cutting without a permit in BC illegal ?????
Region 8 is so cut up big time with all these mountain bike trails with bridges + jumps etc total destruction of wildlife habitat.

[Squire]

Lithium battery sawsall with a couple batteries.

But personally, I’d pack a chainsaw and gas. If you can pack an animal out, you can pack a chainsaw up there.

SSS

In the ‘90s we cleaned the windfalls off an old horse trail we used to access the alpine every 2-3 years. One nice warm day in June I packed a new Stihl 261 (one load of firewood cut with it) 3 hours up the hill because it was easier and safer to cut from the top side. It died after one cut and wouldn’t restart; it turned out that model had a faulty coil. $#@&
I have a little Chinese-made 6” handheld battery-powered chainsaw that is great for cutting and pruning trees around the yard but it wouldn’t quite be adequate for windfalls up to 24” in diameter.

[high horse Hal]

Lookin to cut me a trail for later in the season, all my time spent in other areas has me doin it late.

I aint packin a chainsaw up there, or even gas for that matter. I can cut the bigger stuff by hand or hop over it (foot trail), anybody got any experience with electric hedge trimmers or somethin like that? Recommend anything good?

I'd have to have a pretty good reason to put more than the minimal effort towards clearing a path, especially small brush that grows back quick
IME, no one else will help with the endeavour but will sure take advantage of your work
Must be something special to you maybe

[TheObserver]

Walking trail? Bike trail? Quad trail? Horse trail?

We use electric or manual gear for dirtbike trails, chainsaws and bumpers for truck or atv trails, and find our way around for foot trails, although I do carry a pocketboy if necessary.

Just walking, reg 2 BTs this place is real nasty especially some of the reprod part. Too late now though this year I'll be startin to poke around there last week of this month so dont want make a racket now just keep pushin through this year

[J_T]

I cut a lot of trail each year. Anytime I'm in the bush I carry a sandvik and machete. Always trimming. Sometimes trimming turns into a trail. Usually the trail supports extraction, rather than access. But I cut the trails knowing I can confidently go in and pursue an animal, knowing I can get it out. After cutting with the sandvik and machete, I might take the chainsaw in (usually during rifle season) and cut out a better trail...

[Sharpish]

long handled pruning loppers, handheld bypass pruner and a silky bigboy 2000 is what i use. electric is dumb, once the battery dies you're packing around a 10lb paperweight.

[caddisguy]

I bought an electric trimmer from Amazon for around $100 bucks and I've beat the snot out of it for around 4x two hour longer trimming sessions... even quite a few things 1.5 inches thick... doing ground level stuff hitting rocks and all sorts of things. Haven't even lubed it but I should LOL ... considered it a disposable type deal but maybe it's worth taking care of

[Andrewh]

I pack hand shears when chasing bt or rosies, they make great work of alders and all the other shit that you fight through.