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From: Dyane Smith

What is a trail machine?  What is a Pulaski?  What is a McLeod?  A pick I think I can recognize.

 

Aha! You have not taken your first trail maintenance course!

You need to attend AERC's next "Trail Masters" class. Either that

or tag along on your local IMBA (International Mountain Bike

Association) chapter's next educational program.

 

Links:

 

  AERC Trail Masters:  http://www.aerc.org/Trails_TMC_.asp

 

  IMBA's spectacularly good book on trail design, construction

  and maintenance:

 

   http://www.imba.com/resources/trail_building/trail_solutions.html

 

  And an example of one kind of "Trail Machine" (mini skid steer),

  the Toro "Dingo": 

 

   http://www.toro.com/professional/sws/loader/track/index.html

 

  And of two others, a mini excavator and the powerful SWECO

  tractor, in use:

 

     http://www.trailbuilders.org/arrowhead.html

 

  And this great page on the Professional Trailbuilder's Association's

  web site:

 

    http://www.trailbuilders.org/suppliers.html#power%20tools

 

Linda Marins