I woke up feeling a little under the weather today. I didn’t feel up to doing any work, so I chair hopped around the yard for a few hours.
Old bridge repairs
Eventually I felt better and got the tools out to weld up some channel for the old bridge repair.
I used the wheelbarrow to transport the heavy piece of metal a couple hundred feet to the old bridge.
Hard to see in the bright light
I started work on the next piece but was having trouble seeing what I was doing when welding, mostly because the sun was too bright. I was hoping for a big cloud to come by and give me some shade so I could see the weld better. I had hopes in this little cloud blocking the sun for a bit. It did, but only for a few minutes. Not long enough to get much done.
I needed to cut some holes in this piece for some lag bolts, so I got the plasma cutter out to do the job.
It was so hard to see to use the equipment I had a hard time cutting the holes, which hooked like this. Not pretty, but the bolts will go through them and will do the job. I think I need another roof over this area so I can see to do this kind of work.
Then I cut the left end of this piece to fit into another piece of channel and it was ready to transport.
Rain shower hits
I was almost finished with the last piece for the day when a rain shower hit, so I quickly put all the tools away as I didn’t know how long the rain was going to last. About ten minutes was all.
That was ok as I was finished with most of the tools for the day anyhow. I only needed the power band saw to cut a couple more things and I was done with that for the day.
Just in time for the sun going down when it would be easier to see the welding process.
Sunset
Old bridge work site
I’m using the metal pieces to build a box bulkhead where to old rotten wood had washed out in a recent rain storm.
Clear heart redwood
This bridge was built about 1955 when a big stump washed the old bridge out during a big rain storm. It was built with clear heart redwood so lasted for quite some time. 68 years.
I spent the rest of the evening sitting around just enjoying the evening as it was real nice out.
The moon popped up to the east just as it was starting to get dark.
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.
