Barry was coming by today and he wanted to clear some trees and brush off our roads. I went with him to help out. Now, all these pictures look like he’s doing all the work, but while he is using his chainsaw I’m staying out of the way and throwing rocks and sticks off the roads until he’s done cutting, then I help him get the stuff he cut off the road.
First log
Here’s the first log he tackled, the first of many today.
We cleared that one off the road and moved to this next little one Barry took care of, an easy one.
He cut this overhanging one out so he doesn’t hit it with his helmet when riding by.
Big mess
This one was a bigger mess and took us some time to get cleared off the road.
We were pretty tired out after that mess so headed up to our resting place at the top of the hill, but on the way we had to cut this tree off the road to get by.
Resting spot
From there it was clear all the way to the top of the hill with this view today. A bit of smoke is in the air, from a nearby control burn.
We rested there for quite a spell, just enjoying the day and resting up for the next job.
After a good rest we took off down the hill to our next tree to remove.
Firewood
This log was bigger than most of the rest of them and solid so Barry decided to just cut it down onto the road for now and come back with his truck to cut it into firewood.
There’s some nice firewood in that log and that’s where we left it for today.
Old road
We decided to clear all the trees and brush off this old road so we can get it opened up and set up to clear a trail over a couple of slides on it, later.
That old road had a lot of smaller brush on it that we worked to get cleared.
After that we headed to our spring to get a drink of water when we ran into this downed tree, so we got it cut and out of the way so we could pass.
Nice drink of water
A nice fresh drink of spring water was just what we needed. We sat in the chairs for a bit to rest up before continuing on.
We figured we only had a couple more to do. This one Barry cut into firewood pieces for picking up later.
Rolling big logs
After that we headed for home but had one more place we had to roll some big logs off the road. They were big and we had to work to get them to roll off the road. The only trouble was they rolled down the hill onto the road below it so we had to go down and roll them off that road.
Shot the bull
I think that was the last one. We headed for home. My brother Tom showed up so we sat around and shot the bull for a bit.
Barry took off for home and is coming back tomorrow for a ride after all the work.
I went in for a much needed nap and eventually came back outside and worked on making my bed in the van and getting some more stuff loaded up.
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.
That trail/road clearing is a full time job!