I’d built these three bridges or walkways a while back for the creeks up on the Talking Trees Trail up in the forest to get across the creeks when it’s raining and you are hiking and don’t want to get your feet wet.
It was time to get them installed on the trail. Gerald, Barry’s nephew was going to help me get them up onto the trail. We loaded them on my trailer for the first part of their trip and took them up to where the trail started.
These things are made of steel and fairly heavy so it was a good thing I had a young guy to help me move them. We unloaded them here where the trail starts. The trail is too narrow for Hondo and the trailer.
We drove back to my house and got a quad runner to drag them up the trail, one at a time.
Using a chain, we hooked one on the quad runner and pulled it up to the spot where it was going to do it’s job.
We installed it where the trail crosses this little creek that runs in the winter when it rains.
We went back and got the second one and installed it here.
Dragging them with the quad runner made the job easy. We pulled the last one to this crossing.
Once that one was placed we were done with that job.
Bike ride
So, it was time to play so we got the dirt bikes out and went for a ride in the forest.
Here we’ve stopped at a spring for a drink of water.
We rode around quite a bit before heading to our break area at the top.
Another nice view from that spot, as always.
After a good break we rode around some more until we were all tired out from all the fun.
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.
