I got two new ones the other day. I put batteries in them and today, I’ll mount them on my pond and my water pool to see what kind of action I can record.
Here’s the two new trail cams, with the screw in tree mounts I like to use to mount the cams.
Water pool
I rode on up to my water pool and mounted one of the cams on this tree. The cams blend in well on the tree and most people don’t look up in trees.
This is what the cam looks like mounted on the tree with the screw in mount.
The cam overlooks this water pool. The shadow from the old dead fir tree might give me some false motion detections.
Pond site
Once that cam was setup, I rode on over to my pond area and mounted the other new cam on this big tree.
The screw in mount make it easy to set the cam up.
The cam is on the big tree to the right and overlooks the pond on the left.
Lion
I collected one of the cards from a cam I have up on the main road and it showed this mountain lion came by again. The date and time on this cam is wrong, so I set it up right, so I’ll get some more accurate information on when this cat comes by.
Fire trail planning
Once the that project was done, I rode on over to here to check out a ridge for a possible fire trail. I parked here at the top of it and walked down the ridge which is in back of the rig parked there.
The ridge top was fairly thick with trees and brush.
I had to work my way through things.
I’ll need to make a way down this little hill to get on the ridge if I make this fire trail.
This project is just int the planning, maybe stage, so far.
Break spot
From there, I rode up to our break area at the top. You can see the fog sneaking in from the ocean which helps keep this area cooler and the fog likely helps water the forest trees through their leaves.
After a good break, I rode down the backside of the hill and hiked down this road to check it out, to see if I could bring the fire trail down to this area. Maybe. I’ll have to do a lot more walking through this area to figure that out. It’s steep country so that will take some time.
How to carry a chainsaw on a skid steer: Google “skid steer chainsaw mount”, there must be 50 different versions. Most use a Cat for demonstration, but I bet they would fit yours, too. Also, bet a guy as handy as you are could get inspiration (maybe copy) and make your own. Just sayin”
I guess I need to build one of these things as it would be good to have a chainsaw on that rig.
Thanks,
Bob
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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.
How to carry a chainsaw on a skid steer: Google “skid steer chainsaw mount”, there must be 50 different versions. Most use a Cat for demonstration, but I bet they would fit yours, too. Also, bet a guy as handy as you are could get inspiration (maybe copy) and make your own. Just sayin”
I guess I need to build one of these things as it would be good to have a chainsaw on that rig.
Thanks,
Bob