[at-l] Trail crew clothing

[wdlists at optonline.net (Walter Daniels)]

The two common vines in our area are Greenbrier and Bittersweet. They are
easy to tell apart, the Greenbrier has thorns. Its not a vine but Multiflora
rose very aggressively grows into any open space.

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> [mailto:at-l-bounces@backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Mark Hudson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:35 AM
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> Subject: [at-l] Trail crew clothing
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> <<I spend a lot of time doing trail work. Down here we have a 
> lot of Smilax, I have seen it as thick as your wrist with 
> thorns an inch or more long. Somtimes it grows so thick that 
> it can take an hour to cut thru just a few feet of it. We 
> also have the usual run of Carolina Greenbrier, 
> Huckleberry,Blackberry and Oh yes, Indian Hawthorne. If that 
> wasn't bad enough, there is always Spanish Bayonet, NOTHING 
> stops it, it will go right through leather chaps.>>
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> Geez! And I've been complaing about the dang grapevines on my 
> section. Had a tree come down across the trail and spent 
> close to an hour pulling down the vines it was enwrapped in. 
> The tree broke in three pieces when it hit the ground so I 
> didn't even have to saw it. Thirty seconds to clear the tree. 
> Then I have a short field section that has some other kind of 
> vine, too far north to be kudzu, it isn't grapevine, Virginia 
> Creeper, or poison ivy, and that exhausts my knowlege of 
> vines. But it's a pain to clear. And one short section that 
> if you don't clear on a regular basis the briars meet 
> overhead... but mostly I come out of my trailwork in one 
> piece, after reading your descrition I'm feeling almost 
> lucky, tho I am wondering if I could get away with doing 
> trail clearing with a flamethrower <g>...
> 
> skeeter
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