b'VAST NEWSSTAKEBANGERS CORNERDoes your club have unique trail maintenance and construction tricks? We invite you share them in this new feature!Email articles and photos to editor@vtvast.orgBy Rick Ringgard - Lyndon Snocruisers If your club has sections of trail that require rope on either one side or both, it can be a real challenge to put it up, take it down, store it, and put it back up the next year.Anyone who has fought with a tangled mess of rope that gets caught on every cornstalk stub or tree root knows the two most important things are keeping it off the ground and how you store it.The Lyndon Snocruisers make up 48 reels that make it simple. They hold 2,500 of rope each and store easily.The rope never touches the ground and is always tangle free.The simplest way to mount the reel is if your 4- wheeler has a spot to install posts. The reel is mounted on a crank and made out of 2 PVC that locks to the reel to crank rope in, and then lets it freewheel when you pull the rope out.Another way to mount it, and one that will let anyone with a 2 trailer hitch receiver use it, is to convert an old cargo carrier into a stake holder and spin the reel on top. The carriers are about $120.00 new, but you can also find them used easily on line.We used 1-3/8 fence rail and brackets with U bolts to make the end supports that carry the reel and the center support that keeps the stakes from bouncing out, and it makes a good place to rest the reel while you slide the crank in, too. This one holds about 90 stakes, has two 1,200 lengths of rope on it and is nowhere near full.The frames fold into the base and the whole thing folds up for travel or storage. The two little dolly wheels on the bottom make it easy for one person to move it around.We useclips made for electrical conduit screwed to each post, and one person can easily install stakes and a reel full of rope in a few hours. Happy roping!2 | Snowmobile VERMONT'