Sunday Afternoon drive

[tpintas]

Missus and I went for a sunday afternoon drive to Rinadeena falls (had no intention of doing the walk, just a drive) today.
On Little Fishers Road about 100m before the bridge over the river, two trees had fallen accross the road.

To whom should things like this be reported?

Do many members carry a chainsaw etc in their vehicle in case of just such an event when they are off the beaten track. (Could heve been worse. If the road was blocked on the way out, and I didn't have the chainsaw with me...)

Is it likely that the trees will be cleared soon? (as we intended to take an interstate visitor to do the walk this Friday)
Is it OK if road is not cleared by then, and I clear it myself at the time?

Is it OK to be cutting up fallen trees, with a chainsaw, to clear roads in forrests etc? (as a generalisation)

Sorry for all the noob questions, but if you don't ask, you don't learn!

[ILUVSWTAS]

Not sure what the protocol is, but if I came across a fellow walker who carried a chainsaw and was clearing a tree off the road, i'd be very grateful!! I can only imagine FT would also be grateful as they wouldnt have to drag their butts out there to d it for us.

[taswegian]

its accepted in rural Tasy that if you come across a tree across a road and you have a means of disposing of it then it gets cut up or at least a gap cut in the obstacle.

Technically as a past Public Servant we used to joke about our expected task of removing road kill etc from a road. If its good enough for shinybums then its good enough for public.
Personally I wouldn't (don't) hesitate to remove debris, cut up trees across roads.
Obviously due care needs to be taken into account.
Go for it.

[Son of a Beach]

Every time I've been on that particular road, I've had trouble with trees across it (ie, all 2 times). If I remember next time, I'll definitely be taking a chainsaw. It was very difficult getting by a couple of spots without it last time, but thankfully the road was either not quite entirely blocked, or the trees were not too big to manually move them just enough to scrape by.

[tpintas]

Thanks for the advice, guys.

If ever I'm going off the bitumen again, I'll make sure I remember the Chainsaw!