Bob's Eyes

Wednesday March 5, 2025 Guerneville CA.

New kiosk

I headed on up through the state park today to do some road work on the old road. I noticed these guys working on putting a new kiosk together. I think they were volunteers as there was a bunch of people working on it.

The old kiosk got smashed when a pickup truck smashed through it early one morning about a week ago.

Forest work

I continued on up the hill to where my Skidder was parked and warmed it up and got to work. I headed up this road to get a load of rock at the rock slide area.

I started laying down some rock on the old road.

I would dump the rock on the road and then spread it out with Skiddy, working my way up the road.

I just dumped this load and am spreading the rock out on the road.

Every once and awhile, I’d have to stop and throw larger rocks off the road by hand as some rocks were too hard to break up, which makes it hard to get a smooth surface.

This was the last section I rocked and spread out today.

I put Skiddy away at the top and drove on back down the road, stopping here to clean up this water crossing a bit so the little bit of water crossing now, went across the road instead of down it

Then I drove on down the road I just put rock on.

I stopped here to cut some brush back off the road.

Park kiosk progress

I went by the new kiosk they were building on the way home through the park. They got a good start on the new kiosk.

Nice day.

Tuesday March 4, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest road work

I’m working on getting ahead on getting the old road rocked. I’d like to get enough rock on the road to get us through any more spring rains so I don’t have to repair the road so much from tire ruts.

I’m mainly trying to put a thicker coat of rock on the lower steep part of the road that has a bad problem with water running down the road and making muddy messes when it rains.

I’m also just mostly putting the rock on the upper side of the road, the hilly side, to help make the road an out-sloped road so the rain water runs off the road better.

I got the skidder warmed up and drove off on this road headed for the rock slide where I was getting the rock to rock the road.

I mostly hauled rock  most of the day down to that steep part of the road.

I started by dumping rock here on the lower part of the steep part of the road, out-sloping the road to the right.

I had to stop here to get out and throw those rocks off the road as they were too hard and wouldn’t break up and they were making it hard to make the road smooth.

Late in the day, I finished up dumping rock on this upper part of the road. I put the rock on fairly thick in this part as there’s lots of water popping out of the hill side in this spot when it rains a lot.

It was after five when I drove on back to where I park Skiddy and set up to put fuel in Skiddy.

I really do like the 12 volt electric pump I use to transfer the fuel to Skiddy’s tank. It makes the job easier and saves my back, not having to hold up those slow pouring fuel containers for such a long time.

Nice day.