I decided to stay home today and go up the hill and charge the dozers battery.
I got the quad runner out and warmed it up and took off around noon. My first stop was at the culvert where I lost the shovel in the fast current a few weeks ago during a rain storm.
That shovel is stuck good
You can see the handle sticking up down there in the water. I was able to get my hands on it by standing on the tree. I pulled and pulled to no avail. It seems to be wedged in some tree roots or something like that as I couldn’t budge it. I might have to wait until summer to get it out when the creek dries up.
Run it to charge the battery
The dozer was parked near the top of the hill in this spot. I pulled in and parked the quad runner. I tried the key and it started right up. After letting it warm up a bit I headed on down the hill pushing any trees out of the road that had fallen during the last rain storms.
The main purpose was to run the dozer long enough for the battery to get changed up, so I was heading down the hill with it through this spot.
And down this road to the bottom of the hill.
Park and walk back up the hill
I figured I ran it long enough to charge the battery and parked it here near the bottom which meant I’d have to hike back up the hill to get the quad runner near the top.
It was a nice day for a little walk as I worked my way up the hill.
Up along this road.
And through those redwood trees.
I don’t have a saw for this
I made it up to where the quad runner was parked and hopped on and headed down the hill going another way when I ran into this downed tree. I didn’t have a saw, so I tried going under it on the left side and made it otherwise I would have had to turn around and go another way.
I rode by this creek that drains this part of the forest. It’s nice and mellow right now, but during the rains, it rips.
I’m at the bottom of the hill now and headed into an old apple orchard just up ahead.
An alternator and a golf cart
I ran into my brother Tom while going through the gate. He wanted some help measuring the voltage on an alternator so I continued home and got my voltmeter and measured the alternator and the voltage was good, it was changing.
After that, I told him to bring his golf cart by so I could check out the switch that controls the reverse beeper that I thought was likely stuck closed from checking out the electrical schematic the other day. I measured the voltage on the switch and sure enough, it was stuck closed which made the machine’s computer always think it was in reverse, even when going forward. I disconnected the wire from the switch to the computer for now until he gets a new switch.
Here’s the forward/reverse switch with the little micro switches mounted on the right side. The one in the front right is the bad one with the red wire going to it.
By now it was getting dark, so I went in the house for the day and that was my 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.
