I wanted to use my quad runner today to go up and cut some stuff on a trial. I charged up the battery yesterday, so today I tried to start it, but it acted like the battery was dead, so I got out my volt meter that said the battery was fully charged up. That meant, it must be a connection problem so I did some more measuring with the volt meter and found the plus battery connection wasn’t making good contact. I tightened it up and I got the quad started up without any more trouble,….. But.
Making a cam mount bracket
I wanted to make a bracket to mount my Instant 360 cam on my side by side so I cut and welded some metal and painted it to make this cam mount.
I bolted the bracket on and this shows the clamp that will hold the cam to the bracket.
The bracket holds this mount stuff with the cam on the end. That should work.
Back to the quad
Since I wanted to use the quad to go up and cut some stuff off a trail, I also mounted the cam on it and got the saw out and was ready to go.,,,,,,,,,,,,,, But.
All ready to go, but I found it had no front brakes which isn’t good when riding in the steep hills on a trail.
I worked on fixing that. It appeared that the fluid viewing window was cracked and leaked all the fluid out of the unit, likely just from old age as this is a 1984 model.
Tough screws
But first I had to get the two screws out to add fluid after I fixed the broken window, but the screws didn’t want to come out easily, but working on them, I finally broke them loose without breaking the screws.
Repairs
I decided to put some epoxy on the window as I don’t really need to see the fluid level. It either works or it doesn’t. Now I had to wait for the epoxy to set up, so I went back to the side by side.
Trying out the 360 cam
This is an interesting cam as it shoots a 360 degree video picture all the time. You can see what’s in front and what’s in back as well as all around the sides.
My plan was to ride up into the hills and shoot the road I’m working on talking about the repairs as I ride down the road. I did that to get some footage so I can work on the editing part.
I just made it down to the end of the road in the park and now am turning around to shoot it again on the way up the road.
I got some video clips of the road and will now have to view them to see how things turned out.
I still had some time left on the camera, so shot some more footage riding around the property. I stopped here at this overlook for a break.
No water supply
When I rode up to this little water hole, I found there was no water coming out of the black pipe. I needed to check this out and fix it if I could or the pool would dry up which would be hard on the little mosquito fish living in there.
Spring water supply
I rode on up to where the spring was that supplied the water to that pool. It seemed to be plugged up a bit as when i pulled the fitting off this pipe some stuff came out and the water flowed a little which is enough to keep that pool up with water.
I headed on home from there as the cam’s battery had gone dead. Once home it was nap time and I just puttered around the yard for the rest of the day.
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.
