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Digging at Rydal
NB: Originally posted elsewhere on the Global Riders Network and appears via syndication.
People trying to go around puddles instead of through them had chopped a few sections at Rydal pretty bad (If you go through the puddle you get your bike dirty and make the puddle deeper, easy fix. If you try and go around you just end up with a wide bog hole)
Any way finally got some time to get out there and help Richard with a bit of remediation
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Thanks for that awareness Flynny, we at Winmalee have one section of firetrail( doubletrack), it has been ridden arlound so much it is now 4 wide, i will try and post photos, also in single we have had the situation of constant traffic through one section of single that in some parts it has ended up being 2ft deep of clay boggy slush also the section is now subject to widening because of riding around it, it has taken me at least 7( seperate) days to get through most of it to fix it up, some people just dont know when to say no!
Nice work Craig. What was the fill material you used? (oh to be able to do this at YRP! maybe soon - now the Heritage Survey is nearly complete).
No fill as such, Ray. It's just what we dug up to embed the pipe. Nice clay soil should mean that once it drys out it should bake hard
That's a small pipe, make sure you regularly clear the leaf litter
There is a puddle spot on the Oaks that has the same problem. We were talking about doing the same fix but with 2 pipes 4 times the diameter and rock bed either side to help prevent the grass creating a block.
It's an 8" pipe and on a steeper angle than it looks. It will self clean enough to keep the trail base dry. and a bunch of fist size rocks in the channel at the head of the pipe should keep the leaves out while letting the water through
I've used much small pipe to good effect in the past, even a couple of sticks dug through a berm is enough to allow water to drain off in sandy soil.