Cleaning Up Roads In the Forest and Getting Those Darn VIN Numbers

Sunday November 14, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

I heard Barry outside this morning with his dirt bike, which meant we’d be going for a ride up in the forest.

I got the gas out and gassed up my bike.

Waterfall

Barry said he wanted to go up to the waterfall to check it out, since we’ve had a lot of rain.

We rode on up this trail through the redwood trees. Lots of nice big green ferns in this area.

This is the little ravine below the waterfall. It has a small creek in it that comes down from the waterfall.

We checked out the waterfall which was flowing pretty good.

Clearing roads

A lot of small trees fell across the roads during the recent rain storm. Barry takes care of removing this one, the first one and there were a lot more of them.

I wasn’t sure we’d get by this one, but Barry opened it up enough for us to pass on by.

Checking the rock slide

We rode around quite a bit and eventually we ended up at the recent rock slide to check it out. The rock slide is right in front of Barry and looks like it is in good condition and not over the road.

Of course we made it up to our break area at the top of the ridge. A bit overcast today with more rain coming.

Another log. I watched Barry move it off the road.

I think this was the last log to move of the day. Barry took care of that one too.

Eventually we made it back to my place where I went in for a nap.

VIN numbers

I have two old cars in the yard that I need to get rid of. I need the VIN’s from them.

The newest car was easy to get but this one was much more difficult.

I had to move it so I could get into the drivers door to get the VIN.

A little push from Hondo did the trick.

Unfortunately as I touched the VIN tag on the dash, it slid down under the dash and was stuck in the plastic wall somewhere. I had to break some plastic out to get to it. It’s an old car that is going to get scrapped. The rivets that held it on had corroded and were gone.

I found the tag. The numbers on it were good enough for me to read it. After recording the number, I set the tag in front of the speed odometer and it immediately slid back down under the dash and was now lodged down under near the steering wheel column. I hope I don’t need that, or I’ll have to dig it out again, ripping stuff up.