Captain Dirty
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Jeff9366 noted "With 1.5 miles of trail your property must be fairly large." If it is mostly wooded may I suggest you get a tractor large enough to power a good, 4" capacity chipper (Wallenstein comes to mind). You could then cover the roots with chips from the woodlot management, smooth the trail, eliminate the obstacles for a mower if growth comes up through the chips, and cross country ski or snowmobile on as little as a heavy frost. Of course bikes will displace any chips if that is your trail use.
Be wary of "old" pine stumps. I remembered my land being logged 30 years prior and routed x-c trails over the stumps thinking the apparently rotten tops would come out easily. The exposed stump may have been spongy, but the pitch in the rest of the stump preserved it. Armed only with hand tools stump removal was a lot of work.
Captain Dirty
Be wary of "old" pine stumps. I remembered my land being logged 30 years prior and routed x-c trails over the stumps thinking the apparently rotten tops would come out easily. The exposed stump may have been spongy, but the pitch in the rest of the stump preserved it. Armed only with hand tools stump removal was a lot of work.
Captain Dirty
