Barry showed up in the yard today with his dirt bike so I filled up mine with gas and we took off for the hills.
On the way up into the hills I realized I’d forgotten my camera.
We rode all around as usual going fairly fast today as I’m getting better at it. We stopped at all the regular places, a drink of spring water included and were home by 2:30.
Trail work
Barry took off for home and I decided to head back up in the hills and do some trail work at 3.
3 came and went and so did 4, but at 4:30 I jumped on the quad runner with my chainsaw and my other Pulaski and rode on up into the hills to the work area.
Cutting out roots day
I was going to try and remove these roots today, one at a time.
Pulaski work
I used the Pulaski first to cut the smaller roots that would get a lot of dirt in them. That root is four or five inches in diameter.
I chopped through a couple of the roots and used the Pulaski to remove dirt around them first.
I cut through these two roots.
Old shirt
I brought up an old T-shirt to tie around the root I wanted to cut to help keep the dirt and rocks out of the chainsaw cut.
Chainsaw work
And then I cut off those roots so I could use the Pulaski to dig some more roots out, so I could cut some more.
The big one
This is the largest root that needed cutting and I was trying to save the chainsaw for cutting that one as it was a little large for the Pulaski.
All prepped and ready for the cut. I’d already cut the bottom pieces with the Pulaski so it should fall off when I make this cut just below the shirt.
I got that cut off before the chainsaw got dull and I have most of the roots out now.
I got the trail cleaned up a bit with all the roots out of the way.
Done
I worked on some more of the trail moving dirt and rocks to clear this section.
Some road work on the way home
It was about 7:30 when I was done for the day and went on home, stopping here to clear some sticks and rocks off the road.
I could drive by these fallen trees and almost did but decided to stop and cut them off the road.
I got back home in time to eat some fruit and berries and check on the chickens.
This hen had two little guys under her. You can see one of them.
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.
