The sun was out today but it was a bit on the cool side. I put on an extra shirt and got my digging tools and rode the quad runner up into the hills where I’ve been working on burying our spring water pipes and started to dig a ditch just in front of the quad and worked my way up the hill.
Tree trimming
I started by cutting the limbs off this tree that goes across the water line with my hand saw. The heavy shirts came off shortly as I worked away.
You can see the tree I trimmed and then made the ditch under it ready to bury now.
I think I got about a 150 feet buried in the ground today. The ground is nice and soft from the recent rains.
I got the pipe buried down to the quad and then started the ditch down in back of the quad runner before I quit for the day.
Getting dark on me
I worked a little longer than I should of and the forest got a bit dark on me before I left to scoot on home. I had to race to beat the bogyman out today, but I beat him as I didn’t see him.
The chickens were already in the roost but when they heard me pull in the yard on my quad they all jumped down and wanted to get into the front yard for a bit so I opened the gate for them. They only had about a half hour before it got too dark for them.
Once it was dark I shut the chickens in their pen for the day and went on in the house for a nap.
Another productive day working on getting the spring water lines buried and I always get a bunch of exercise too.
I’m curious how many springs you have and how far all those lines go. It seems to be quite a distance.
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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.
I’m curious how many springs you have and how far all those lines go. It seems to be quite a distance.