This pile of firewood needed to be moved, so I got the wheelbarrow out and loaded it up to move the wood to the new spot.
I moved the wood the short distance to the new shed location.
It took six loads to get the job done.
Once the wood was moved, I put the sprinkler on the cherry trees where the wood pile was.
Forest work
After a break from all the wood moving, I rode on up to this spot in the forest to see if there was an old fire trail down the ridge that is in back of Hondo.
I found an old fire trail down there, but the access needed to be improved to get on it.
From there I rode around the hills a bit just enjoying the day.
I needed some more rock in the shed’s floor. I got three or four more loads of rock with Skiddy and put it in the shed so I can smooth out the floor.
I’ll have to use the old’ shovel to make this floor flat.
I got the floor in pretty good shape. Now I’ll put the sprinkler on it to help pack it down.
Forest work
It seems like there is always a lot to do up in the forest. My chainsaw was already loaded up in Hondo.
I stopped at this pond to get a drink of water from the spring that runs into it.
From there I drove on over to this big tree that recently fell across the road.
Safely
I sat down in my chair and studied the situation on how should I cut this tree down safely as it had a big stump that was up in the air on the hillside.
Frist cut
I made the first cut and the stump moved a little and created this dust cloud. It looked more like I set off some dynamite. All that dust was a surprise. The top of the tree went on down the hill from my first cut.
Second cut
Now i needed to make another cut and the stump was still hanging up there ready to fall.
The plan was to cut the log near the ground so that when the log split off, the stump wouldn’t move very much which would make the cut much safer to make.
l made the second cut ok and safely.
Third cut
The third cut brought the log to the ground and now the logs have to get moved off the road, by rolling them by hand.
The logs are really larger than I can handle, but by getting them to roll down the hill, it’s doable. That last big log, I rolled down the hill which is towards the chainsaw and it took off down the hill when it rolled off the road.
State park road
Once that tree was taken care of, I rode on over to this state park road to check it out as I plan to do some work on it.
The park has lots of big trees that are mostly too big to deal with, so I leave them alone.
Big tree stump
This is what I wanted to check out. This big stump on the bottom of this big redwood tree is overhanging the road a bit. It’s been sawed off a bit with a chainsaw in the past, but there’s a narrow spot in the road here that needs to be repaired. The stump needs more of it trimmed off and then the road bed needs some repairs to fix it up.
I looked at the rest of the road, then headed for home.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
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A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
