How do you "groom" a trail, is it popular with the truck crowd or is it something bad

[OilPatch197]

How do you "groom" a trail, is it popular with the truck crowd or is it something bad

Trail grooming, is done all the time on ATV trails, does this practice exist among 4wd enthusiast? Is it frowned upon, considered vandalism or accepted? (of course you don't do this in public forest, or do they?)

 

[ZMan]

I've never seen it done in any of the parks I've been too, about all they do is just clear trees.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

What is?

 

[adsm08]

I think it's when you comb a trim the trail's fur and clip it's nails.

 

[FritzTKatt]

I know some guys who do it to their ATV trails so they don't get messed up by thorn bushes and what not, but I'm sure at least in Jersey it's illegal to "groom" on public lands.

I've never worried about some battle scars on my truck, though.

 

[OilPatch197]

What is?

Grooming the trail? Your basically doing trail maintenance with your rig. For example if you have briars, trees and bushes growing into the trail you simply go off the trail a little and run stuff over, it will die. Mud holes and ruts also need grooming, going forward downhill with wheels spinning in reverse(ATV), or a washout that needs smoothing out by some hard acceleration!

 

[Downey]

^^^ and thats the reason why they are closing all the public off road parks

 

[ZMan]

Grooming the trail? Your basically doing trail maintenance with your rig. For example if you have briars, trees and bushes growing into the trail you simply go off the trail a little and run stuff over, it will die. Mud holes and ruts also need grooming, going forward downhill with wheels spinning in reverse(ATV), or a washout that needs smoothing out by some hard acceleration!

I went to Southington earlier in the summer before the TRS meet and we had a park employee freak out on us for going 3 feet off of a trail to let oncoming trucks pass, said not to go off the trail it pisses the land owner off. How was the other guy supposed to get by, they want him to back down a trail until he can find a place to get out of the way?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

I am sure most places would love to put together something to fix ruts, trim trees and pick up trash. Probably not something to just go out and do on your own without approval if you don't own the land though.

If we didn't do it up at my grandpa's farm the trails would close in and trees would be growing everywhere but in the wheel tracks. So we hit it a couple times a year with a tractor and shredder and keep the trees trimmed back.

Not so much offroading for the sake of offroading but so we can get a truck around fields with the crop in or get back into the timber to either fix fence or retreive deer.

I have been known to use the differential brakes on a tractor to smear out baby cedar trees

 

[feellnfroggy]

from what ive read about ultimate adventure and a few other off road magazines, tehre is alot of trail grooming that takes place. placing log obstacles, and some types of rock crawls, filling ruts, digging out other areas, mostly on private land though.