The sun was already out when I got it going today, but my work area was still in the shade so I decided a motorcycle ride would be a good idea. I needed to go up in the hills and check on how the roads were doing after the recent rains.
I rode on up to the top overlooking Guerneville.
Here’s the view of Guerneville from the ridge top. The town is just to the right of center and the Russian River goes through there too.
Neighbors Top of the World
I rode on up to my neighbors place they call Top of the world to check on the view. The hill is higher up, but it’s a bit overgrown.
Here’s the view from there.
Sunshine warms the work area
I was back in about an hour and by now my work area was warming up with some sunshine so I got to work.
I needed to shorten my winch mount and drill some new holes to mount the winch.
Here’s the shortened winch bracket with the winch mounted. I also had to shorten the winch lever as it hit the van’s roof. I then drilled a hole in it and also added the handle.
Here’s the winch mounted showing how it works. This should make picking the motorcycle up easy and also take some of the weight off the trailer hitch and keep it from trying to bounce too much while traveling.
Here’s the pipe I added to help lift it or drop it or just to help handle it. I’m not sure I need it and if not I can unbolt it and remove it.
Here’s the winch with my motorcycle in the up position.
And the down position.
The almost finished carrier
This shows a good view of the upright position.
I may have to do a bit of adjusting once I get a motorcycle up there, but this is the jest of my new vertical carrier. The main thing is it looks like it will work.
Ready for paint
I disassembled it so I can paint it once I get a warm enough day.
Then I picked up tools and materials and tried to clean up the work area a bit.
Prepping for Oregon
Then I took a look at the inside of my van and did some cleaning up. The bedding went to the washer. I’ll go through the food supplies and finish tidying up in the next day or so as I hope to leave for Port Orford, Oregon soon as the weather up there is improving.
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.
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.
