Fat Mans Squeeze

[DJ54]

Here are a couple volunteer projects we did in the spring of '07. This was done in Hocking State Forest, in SE Ohio. Home of what is known as "Old Man's Cave". The hills here are solid red sandstone. The valleys, and stone faces were carved out by the glacial melt.

I live approx. 30 miles north of this State Forest, and in the proximity of where the glaciers stopped.

This is a link to a photo essay that our webmasters for the Ohio Horseman's Council put together. The project was done by what is known as the OTP, or Ohio Trails Partnership. Hikers, Mountain Bikers, and Equestrians getting together to build new, or improve existing trails in Ohio parks and forests. And to preserve these trails for future generations to enjoy.

The first link will show where we built 1500' of trail by hand labor, in less than 4 hours...

After lunch, we hand passed approx. 9 tons of "D" rock, to fill gabion baskets, and built the trail across the washout...

The Ohio Trails Partnership-Hocking 2007

 

[DJ54]

If you click on the link at the bottom of the page above, where it says "Day 2", it will have a photo essay of where we packed in the 30 tons of stone.

If you see pictures with a Donkey in it, the guy standing beside him is me. My Donkey "Percy" packed in over 1 ton of stone himself. There is a picture of him too, with a friend of mine that led him about 6 trips up the hill. My mare we packed with too, was a little uneasy so we traded.

Note the one picture of him standing by himself, and the racks I designed for his pack saddle. We filled feedbags with approx. 90 lbs. of stone each. Then packed it, with however we could figure out how to keep in on the animals. I designed these so as to make it as easy as possible to load, and unload. I also have plans and material to build dumpbags to fit on pack animals.

 

[hobie]

Nice work! The trail looks beautiful! Very cool.