ReadySalted
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Hi all,
I havn't been laning for months, and took the disco out today on one of my favorite lanes, only to find it has had some maintenance done.
This mainly consists of flattening the ground between ruts, filling ruts in with soil and in some places stones, to make them shallower. Cutting a tree which had obviously fallen down blocking the lane. Cutting water drainage channels across the lane.
This was obviously quite good to know that the lane is being maintained, and could even mean that other lanes in the nearby area which have previously been impassable may now have been sorted. It was slightly annoying as well though since there was no challenge, and apart from the depth of most of the ruts and big undulations I felt it would be possible to drive it in a ford fiesta.
Is byway maintenance something that happens alot nowadays?
Is there any way to get involved in it, or is a local authority matter? I work an odd pattern and have blocks with alot of time off work, so at times I've wondered about taking lane maintenance into my own hands and setting out with some loppers to do this kind of thing by myself. Perhaps greenlane maintenance meets could be organized by forums like this? or perhaps that already takes place?
I havn't been laning for months, and took the disco out today on one of my favorite lanes, only to find it has had some maintenance done.
This mainly consists of flattening the ground between ruts, filling ruts in with soil and in some places stones, to make them shallower. Cutting a tree which had obviously fallen down blocking the lane. Cutting water drainage channels across the lane.
This was obviously quite good to know that the lane is being maintained, and could even mean that other lanes in the nearby area which have previously been impassable may now have been sorted. It was slightly annoying as well though since there was no challenge, and apart from the depth of most of the ruts and big undulations I felt it would be possible to drive it in a ford fiesta.
Is byway maintenance something that happens alot nowadays?
Is there any way to get involved in it, or is a local authority matter? I work an odd pattern and have blocks with alot of time off work, so at times I've wondered about taking lane maintenance into my own hands and setting out with some loppers to do this kind of thing by myself. Perhaps greenlane maintenance meets could be organized by forums like this? or perhaps that already takes place?