200 feet of Trail Maintenance - PEP BB earthworks.sand.trail

Reposting with edited video:

Here is my BB submission for trail maintenance.  The trail was in decent shape to begin with, but needed a bit of love. There was a small bent pine tree leaning completely over it and a lot of suckers coming up from serviceberry runners impinging from the sides. I raked it as well to clear out a lot of sticks and pinecones. Finally, I chopped down some annual grass stalks overhanging the trail below knee level... Perfect perches for ticks to hide out.

Before video walkthrough:
https://youtu.be/3E-iqRtJ4sE

Quick time lapse of raking:
https://youtu.be/mMcs18d84TY

Final walkthrough of trail:
https://youtu.be/ATCiEyHjdpo

I did some trail maintenance today. I have a trail that's about 400 feet from the pole building into the woods where it encounters a four-way intersection and I cleared it up by removing fallen sticks, pruning out thick bramble canes and young hazel trees leaning into the center for light, and mowing the grass, ferns, and other weeds down as well as widening the path where trees and contour permits. I don't have one of those cool measuring wheels, so I used the technique Mike Haasl pioneered in the first submission up at the top -- using a hundred foot tape to stake out the path.

I was looking at just over 4.5 minutes of video so this plays the pre-maintenance video and post-maintenance at double speed. It sounds funny, but I think you can make it out just fine. Even still, the play time is 2:23. I hope that counts as "about two minutes".

Cleared over 200ft of trail today that was completely impassible with downed trees before I started. The first couple of pictures are before, the last picture shows the pond that I was trying to regain access to.  

I cut 5 downed trees from across the path that was completely inaccessible before.  Then I went through with my brushcutter and cut all of the thick grasses and shrubs and small trees.

I did not remove every small branch because this path would take so much work to make smooth that it isn’t worth the time for me to do it because all that I do is use it occasionally to walk down to the pond to fish.

If not a trail maintenance BB, could this be an oddball for homesteading or woodland care?  A tree falling across a road that has to be dealt with (sometimes in an emergency) is a fairly common occurrence in heavily wooded areas.

The new video that I took today didn't turn out very well, so I'll have to redo it and post it later.

I reclaimed a little over 200 ft of an old trail today.  I hadn't used the trail for a few years so it had grown over with salmon berry bushes, elderberry, stinging nettle, and vine maple and had several fallen branches on the trail as well.  Before the maintenance was done, walking the trail required lots of ducking, some nettle stings, and branches in the face - not a shorts and t-shirt type of trail.  

The maintenance included:

Remove fallen sticks and branches

Trim back the salmon berry bushes, elderberry, stinging nettle, and vine maple

I don't have a walking measuring wheel but I do have a 200 ft tape, which I rolled out and took video before and after and merged them into a single 2 minute video.  Enjoy!

EDIT: the after video should be good to go now, thanks Jeff!

For this BB, you will be performing trail maintenance for at least two hundred feet of trail.

We had a few big rains in July so, before I made improvements to these trails closer to the house, I hosted a Permablitz to help slow and sink the water uphill. Now that some of the upstream water issues were improved, I did the following changes:
-improved/stabilized stairs that had been washed out.
-Created new steps
-trimmed the overgrowth on the ground and in my face
-mulched trails with hardwood (covering the trimmed overgrowth left in place)
-inoculated the hardwood mulch with wine caps mushrooms
-relocated rocks from the walkways to the downslope side of the paths
-Added stepping stones

These improvements took me about 20hrs over 2weeks to complete.

The second video I wanted to capture my barefoot children because they're the reason I want to have safe walking paths in our backyard.

To get certified for this BB, post one video about two minutes long showing

  - the trail before the maintenance with a walking measuring wheel - highlighting the issues
       
  - the same trail highlighting the improvements
  [youtube]https://youtube.com/watch/CYZQERpznn8[/youtube]  

The trail to my favorite fishing spot was getting pretty overgrown. The trail is actually about a mile, and I trimmed branches the whole way along. But for this bb, I kept the recording to only 200 feet.