My grandparents and parents decided to have loggers coming in and log our land starting a month and a half or so ago. After seeing the damage one guy did in one day I about got sick. Now we have had 3 guys working in here for the past 2 weeks. Now almost all of my trails are destroyed [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]. The only ones that are still there are on the other side of the stream because it is too wet for the skidder to get across. So out of 15 acres of trails, 10 are gone[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]. Anybody else have this happen to them? and got any good ideas for having some fun in a what once was a forest but now is an area with a bunch of tree tops, stumps, and ruts? Dang, I hope I get a MX track out in the back lawn, since I can't have a XC track now[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img].

 

sorry to hear about that man, those things have happened around here too. Maybe after they log it off and the land is clear you can setup a newer even better track? You should have way more room to play with...

 

Yeah, I got way more room, but what fun is open almost flat space?? I'm gonna hopefully figure out some way to have some kind of track or trail out there. I was already mad because in NY we have 62 acres of trails and now I'm down to 15 already. And it is going to take me at least through the summer to get all the tops out of there. It looks like a tornado came through. Luckily my family owns a landscaping company so we have 2 compact tractors to pull logs out and do some minor clean up. But it still makes me mad, 15 acres of awesome trails GONE. Oh well, if I get a HUMMER I can always fit that down there.

 

I can see your point, that does suck. You could turn it into a MX track to practice on, and leave the wide open parts be a drag strip
if you wanted to. It can be whatever you want it to be....

 

Yeah, I'd like to have an MX track, and our neighbor has a runway for his planes, so I've already got a 2000ft drag strip. I just really love XC. I was going to race the GNCC's starting in Steele Creak this year. And sorry I'm doing so much complaining, just had to vent because last week it was raining and today the guys decided to come in with the skidder and rutted everything up and made things 10 times worse.

 

I know what you mean, my friends riding areas, which we thought was land his grampa owned, was totally destroyed by skidders and logging trucks, last time i went up there, you couldnt get over all the logs, we had some really fun ruts we went through, now there are trees laid all in them and that trail was cool, i just quit riding there and made trails on what we know wont get torn up by skidders, we have some monsterous hill-climbs there too. BTW, is that your land in your pics page?

 

Yeah, thats our land in my pics. I wish I had some more pics of the rest of our land before it was logged. I've got a digital camera now, so I've just gotta upload the new pics sometime. The area where the jump is in my pics wasn't affected, but about 50 feet beside that is where they are pulling out all the logs and loading them. I'll take some good pics tomorrow of what things look like now and load them on my page or my website.

 

Tell your parents and grandparents that you are very upset about them ruining the trails. The only thing that will ease your pain is a new quad (z400) paid for with some of the money from the trees. Maybe you NEED a 4x4 quad [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img][img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] to make it through all the mess they made. There's decent money to be made and it might only take 1 or 2 trees to pay for a new quad. Depending on the type of trees being cut down.

 

Yeah right, one or two trees. One truck load only gets around $300. With my parents 4 acres of trees we got some where around $1800-2000 and thats for pretty decent wood and we even found a Red Oak (rare). And trust me my parents, grandparents, and the loggers know how ticked off I am. I have made it very well known to them that I'm not happy. I am cutting up the tops of the tree to sell as firewood, but for $40 a quard (sp?) its a total pain in the butt. I'll be working on that forever and still be lucky if I can get a truck payment or two out of it.

 

go for it man! don't worry about the complaining...everyone has to vent!
Believe it or not, I got better at riding when our land was logged off. It was more open and I learned better ways of handling my quad under different terrains and it extremely improved my handling skills. Whenever I rode and I'd see a stump, in my mind I'd be on a track in life and have to cut a tight corner around it(stump) and I just got better and better. Now I can outride anyone that dares step on pimp's terrain! The woods IMO is probably the best place to become greater and greater at handling, regardless of the number of trees. Maybe when the logged is done you'll be able to have a more complicated course and be even better and be able to kick more and more @ss as you ride the new terrain and extend your skills further