As someone who’s been dealing with a lot of low mood lately, it really brightens my day to hear someone express gratitude for my anonymous, unauthorized trail maintenance.
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You used that hand saw?
Yeah. Silky Big Boy. It’s a really good saw
Silky gomboy saw? Nice
you deserve it
That’s awesome! I also have a trail with some fallen branches and sticks - been thinking of taking into my own hands ⚒️
I got a folding Silky saw for christmas. That thing cuts almost like a chainsaw.
I should have bought one of those. I did some anonymous trail maintenance myself and used a hand chainsaw (chainsaw blade with a handle at each end). It was a nightmare because the chain kept getting stuck.
Good on you for doing that, I’m one of the people who would really appreciate that!
I love my silkys. I am a carpenter and have the 6" in my pouch for everything from flooring to little trimmy jobs. And a big 12" in my truck for clearing brush like this when out on Crown land roads.
What Silky saw(s) do you recommend? I plan to both hike and do woodworking in the near future.
You can’t go wrong with any of them, and you can buy different blades. I just checked their lineup online and “gomboy” are about where your bush saws start. I’d grab a 190mm straight blade and buy a second blade. When you are out in the woods throw a pruning blade on it, when you are in the shop try and remember to swap it for a fine tooth blade.
The bigger you go, the less you’ll find it useful for woodworking, and the smaller, the less efficient for brush clearing. Curved blades are awesome for brush clearing and straight are my preference for woodworking.
Just head to the store and hold them in your hand, you’ll find one you like and you won’t regret the purchase.
Oh and personal grudge: don’t buy the “hunting” one, with the deer on it and the antler or bone coloured handle.
- It’s the same picture but $10-20 more
- You want a bright colour so if you set it down or drop it you have a hope in hell of finding it again.
Happy trails and happy woodworking.
Great breakdown, thank you!
What saw do you use? These things look great.
It’s Silky Big Boy
Is that a Silky?
I got a folding Silky saw for christmas. That thing cuts almost like a chainsaw.
Yeah, Silky Big Boy
Are you Bóbr? 🦫
Don’t use blurry text if you want to censor it, as it can be unblurred. Just use a solid color box.
Or pixelated blurs
Troll option. Replace the text with lorem Ipsum, then pixelate that.
This only applies to videos as far as I know.
edit: apparently not
Nope, it’s a general rule. See for example https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-tool-never-pixelation
We were already assured of your ignorance, you didn’t have to admit it further.
What do you actually get out of being rude to strangers online for no reason? We’ve never even interacted before. You just show up in a space that’s meant to be about good vibes, and your first instinct is to insult someone - not just for being wrong, but even more for admitting it.
Meant to be good vibes.
Hard disagree.
I would be very impressed if that blurring could be effectively uncensored.
There’s quite a lot of information in those pixels. You can make out gaps between words, risers and descenders, two smileys in the first paragraph which I reckon are probably a smiley and a thumbs up which will further narrow down the possibilities for the words in their vicinity. Constrain that further with English language rules and I reckon that’d get you most of the way there.
Not to mention that you know that exact typeface and pixel perfect location where letters can be, so it should be relatively easy to go through each possible subsequent character and match the pixelated value.
Check this out: https://youtu.be/acKYYwcxpGk
Nice work, OP!
Please don’t do unauthorized trail maintenance. You create a hell of a lot of liability and lawyers ruin everything.
We have no idea what sort of trail this is. Much of my hiking is private land, lots in park of various jurisdictions.
unauthorized trail maintenance
Lmao
Is this some kind of US thing I’m to UK to understand?
It’s just a US person that’s paranoid.
Besides who the fuck is gonna sue the park they’re literally trying to clean up if they hurt themselves? And the park ain’t suing them unless their “maintenance” is observed and really donks stuff up.
Moving some brush and debris off a trail, nobody would complain or get in trouble in reality.
Yes. In the UK, you would need a loicense to do trail maintenance
Mate they’ve got too much freedom over in yankee land, you’d probably get sued for chopping up someone’s wood. Or if you hurt yourself chopping the wood up you might try and sue the wood owner because you have to pay for the doctor to fix you up.
How? Is someone tripping over that stick any different than another stick…? Isn’t it making the space more safe
If he got hurt doing train maintenance, or someone saw him doing trail maintenance and decided to do some themselves, and they got hurt, that opens up a lot of liability
While I think your concern is a bit overblown, this sort of stuff can be dangerous.
Those concerns are over hyped from main stream media trying to promote tort reform. Very, very few people would sue a state park because they tripped over a tree branch and no one would be successful if they did.
It all sounds like an American problem because they don’t have public healthcare.
The biggest case of poison oak I had in the past decade was from avoiding a fallen tree. Where are these lawyers you speak of when I need them! Ha!
Torille
You dropped this 👑
Good shit! I also started carrying branch saw and an axe in my backpack sometimes when I knew there’s fallen shit on my regular trail. It’s such a good feeling thing to clear up a section of a trail after a storm
