On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:14 AM, John Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On trails which horses use, there's often a type of above-ground "cattle > > grid" called a "cavaletti". Typically, it would consist of about 4 > > widely-spaced logs across the track at a height of about a half a metre. > > The idea is that a riderless horse will not cross this (and perhaps > > escape on to a road). > > Oh, is *that* what they're for. I have seen one or two of those > around, like on a bridleway near Rowville, Vic: > > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.958364,145.26343&z=22&t=h&nmd=20100416 > > They're pretty good at stopping mountain bikers too. :) > > Steve >
my quick search showed me that motorcyclists were one of their targets _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
