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https://www.treehugger.com/files/2010...lk-by-bike.php

Thought you guys might enjoy this.

miamimike

Kool--Amazing what he accomplished.

Arcanum

I'm more impressed with how much time he had to've spent digging rock out of overgrown woods and brush. He's gotta be retired.

nwmtnbkr

I'm impressed, too. I like his trailer. My little one is fine for groceries, but those big ones can really haul.

katcorot

thats a B@W trailer for you. 300lbs total load, or 200lbs on the fenders

dzrthauler

Ditto on that... we all know what can be done with a bike and trailer, just need the time to do it. I like the amount of time he put into his film... nothing like major time on your hands, I suppose.

Fat Tire

And then the time to make the sidewalk itself, seting all that granite in the ground, rearranging it, I suspect he took shortcuts there. In the film, it shows a slab of stone thicker than most still standing clear by two inches above the rest. Not bad, not bad. DEDICATED!

Oh, 3300 kg = 7260 lbs, well short of 4 tons, but not too shabby, either. Call it 3.5 tons.

StephenH

I think one key to using bicycles effectively is to figure out what can be done well on one and what can't. Yes, you can move tons of stuff here and there, and while you're doing that, people are driving 3 ton pickups to the corner store for a coke, too. So why not use the pickup to move the gravel, use the bicycle for the corner store. That's the message that needs to be gotten across.

dzrthauler

Yeah, kinda. Efficiency is what it's all about for some, for us for example when we do our errands on our bikes and it takes us 3-4 hours to do what would take 1.5 hrs in a car some would say that we aren't being practical or efficient... but, we are doing what we feel is our part for the planet and we have a long term goal of touring. Now, granted if the sidewalk builder had no other means of transportation or is a devoted car-free guy then kudos to him - if he just wanted to prove that he could do it regardless of time/energy (obviously that must have been the motivation, one could assume) then I guess he succeeded. Hell, he's probably just a dude like all of us on here that loves to do things with his bike and trailer.

ekincam

I've never been to TX, but seems like a 3 ton truck is obscenely large for a personal vehicle. Are you in an area with lots of farms?

Most people with trucks here have 1/4 ton pickups or smaller. There are some 1/2 and 1 tons but not nearly as common as 1/4 tons and smaller trucks like Tacomas or Rangers.

Ok, nm that...it just occurred to me that you might be talking about the weight of a vehicle and not something like a deuce and a half.

KD5NRH

I should get some photos of the parking lot at work; duallies outnumber sedans by a fair margin, and over half of them have mint-condition paint in the bed because the truck is purely a status symbol/phallic compensator. I watched one of them last night threading his way through with a trailer carrying his lawnmower; just the lawnmower, because if he put it in the bed, it might scratch the paint.