Caleb's Trail-Aug 14

[MissMandy]

We are looking for 10 volunteers to help build a trail for Caleb. Caleb's is a 12yo boy with, despite his many disabilities loves the outdoors! His family approached FORC to help them build a trail where Caleb would have a quite place to play in the woods. Drew and Bill took look at the area and found the project very doable and would take about 5-6 hours of trail work to complete.
Trail date is Sunday, August 14th at 9:00am. Post-up if you can help. As we get closer to the date we will post-up more details and a list of tools needed.

Thank you,
Mandy

[Bexter]

In!

[dirtboy]

brown's are in

[samlederman]

Sign me up

[Bill.specht]

I'll be there with at least one more maybe two

[Surge]

I can help out. I have some contacts at the Illinois/Iowa center for independent living in case we need some advise on building accessible trails. They don't necessarily make trails, but they do make wheelchair ramps and help people make their living arrangements accessible. They may also have some volunteers or can help with promoting the trail once it is open to other people with disabilities if it is going to be open to the public.

[DH001]

Surge, the trail is private and accessibility guidelines might not apply. Feel free to ask for some tips though and pass them along. We'll be making the trail wider than normal (3 ft vs 2 ft).

Summary of the work involved:

• 90 yds of benching to traverse the ravine slope and get to the bottom. Rogue hoes, flat shovels, and a couple wheelbarrows needed.
• 90 yds of weed trimming for a loop in a clearing at the bottom of the ravine. String trimmers and a chainsaw are needed.
• Short 5-6 riser timber/dirt stair around a switchback turn (something like this). In need of a powerful corded drill to make holes in the timbers for anchors. Battery drills are not well suited for drilling these holes. Have 1/2" x 16" auger bit.
• Installing 12" x 3' culvert and building up trail over a drainage.

Overview of the work site and overlay of trail route:

[slowpoke]

I'm in.

[MissMandy]

Those who will be helping with the trail build for Caleb on Sun 8/14 9am. I will be texting or messaging you the address of the location later this week. If you plan to be there let me know so I can get you the information.
Here is the tool list...Summary of the work involved (see above post):
90 yds of benching to traverse the ravine slope and get to the bottom.
-Rogue hoes
-flat shovels
-couple wheelbarrows needed.
-Weed Trimmers as we will need to do 90 yds of weed trimming for a loop in a clearing at the bottom of the ravine.
-chainsaw
-Short 5-6 riser timber/dirt stair around a switchback turn (see above).
-powerful corded drill to make holes in the timbers for anchors. Battery drills are not well suited for drilling these holes. Have 1/2" x 16" auger bit.
Installing 12" x 3' culvert and building up trail over a drainage.

[DH001]

I'll be bringing 7 rogue hoes, 5 flat shovels, a wheelbarrow, and some tools for building the stairs (don't have a corded drill). If you're bringing any of the other items post it.

[Bill.specht]

I've got a flat shovel, 1 rogue hoe, wheel barrow. String trimmer. I'll bring a chainsaw. I can bring a couple corded drills too. And extension cords. Sledge hammer.

[forcmeister]

I'll be there.

[slowpoke]

I have a 10 amp corded drill that has great power. Need drop cords?

[Bill.specht]

Yes bring extension cords

[MissMandy]

Thank you to those who have volunteered. I have text or messaged thru FORC messenger the address to those who have volunteered for the project on Sunday. We will start work at 9:00am. If you have not heard from please message me....MissMandy

[MissMandy]

Really HUGE Thank You to everyone who came out today to help work on Caleb's trail. The trail is complete and we'll try to post pictures. Caleb and his family were really excited and thankful for their new trail. FORC volunteers are the best and special thanks to our best trail building gnomes Drew and Bill. Without your eye for building trails this project would not have been the success it was! :cheers

[mtrsprt43]

I want to give a huge thanks to all that helped out today. We not only built a trail as we do, we gave an awesome kid an even more awesome trail. Enjoy Caleb Enjoy!!!

[DH001]

Thanks again everyone! Without an awesome group of people, this stuff isn't possible.

WQAD has their segment up on the web: http://wqad.com/2016/08/14/friends-o...g-with-autism/

Dispatch Article

Photos:

Full Gallery Here

[jimithng23]

Excellent work, you guys.

[MissMandy]

The Dispatch did a great article....
http://www.qconline.com/news/local/c...1fb429a66.html