Bob's Eyes

Friday June 20, 2025 Guerneville CA.

More eggs

My neighbor brought over more eggs as he has a rooster. So I put them under another hen to hatch them out an marked her nest so no one takes the eggs. I put then under Red, the bottom row one in the middle as she is the youngest one. And told the neighbor,  no more eggs please.

Going for a ride

Then I rode on up through the state park to go for a ride and visit some neighbor’s that live up there.

Bear road

I turned onto this road with the bear on it.

And rode down this ridge line road.

With lots of good views.

And then turned down the road to the right.

Which went through here.

Visiting

And down to the neighbor’s house for a visit.

Rocks

After a good visit shooting the bull, I headed on back to our place and stopped at this rock slide to load up some larger rocks.

And took the rocks down to this water hole and put the rocks in the water to give little fish some protection.

Water hole

Now, I have to get some little fish from my cousin’s little pool soon.

Brushing roads

And then I headed on towards home going up this road, stopping to trim some brush here and there that was hanging over the road.

Once I made it home, I went in for a much needed little nap.

Nice day.

Thursday 19, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Change to the blade

I wanted to test my blade out today to see why it’s not working properly as I’m trying to get John Deere to fix it under warranty. I gave it to them to test about six  months ago and they couldn’t find anything wrong with it so wouldn’t fix it. I did tell them it was intermittent.

I installed a volt meter onto the machine switch so I could watch the meter to see if the switch voltage would change during the switching when the problem occurred.

I got the blade hooked up and took off to meet Tom at my neighbor’s place.

Trail clearing

I pushed stuff out of the way to clear a trail through the woods.

Tom used his chainsaw to help clear out the dead trees across where we wanted to go.

Then he would scout ahead to show me where to make the trail.

There was a lot of this thick scotch broom that was hard to clear out of the way as it would mostly just bend over.

We finished up here and we headed back where we started from.

Testing the blade results and what I learned testing it

The volt meter on the machine switch remained the same so there was no problem with the machine which showed the problem was in the blade.

And with the blade in the air, I could not get the blade to fail.

I learned that it only failed when the blade was in the dirt and that’s why the John Deere people could not get the blade to fail and didn’t fix it.

The blade had to be in the dirt to fail which would put some pressure on the blade, and that’s why the John Deere guys couldn’t get the blade to fail as they  only tested it in the air.

So now I can report to  them what’s happening and get them to replace the defective electric spring  loaded valve on it that changes the blades switch function.

Nice day.