Riding with Loppers. Should I?

[tulip]

If you lived in DC, I'd say lop away! They wouldn't get around to it anytime soon.

However, seeing as you live in Wayland...(I used to live in Newton), I think they have the resources--financial and personnel--to respond to a request for a trim.

If not, however, I'd lop.

[bikerHen]

My daughter and I pass an older "angry" man, on an old bike, ripping out overgrown branches and such along the sidewalk with his bare hands and loppers. He was leaving piles of brush in his wake. A few days later we were on the same road and someone, I assume the City, had cleaned it all up. So go for it! Just be careful riding your bike with all thoses sharp tools. bikerhen

[KnottedYet]

I've often fantasized about bringing my pruners on rides to get the blackberry vines that encroach on the rideable edges.

Obviously I need to get out more...

[DebW]

I've often fantasized about bringing my pruners on rides to get the blackberry vines that encroach on the rideable edges.

Obviously I need to get out more...

Well, if you have fantasies like that, volunteer to be a trail maintainer. Cutting blowdowns is very satisfying work. There are volunteer groups that maintain hiking trails. Don't know about biking trails, but I imagine that some off-road bike trails would need the same kind of care.

[Tuckervill]

Can you just bend the tree back and hook it around something else? Can you pull the vine down by hand?

That'd be my first approach, then I'd call the city, then I'd get the loppers.

Karen