I gassed up and put chain oil in my larger chainsaw and headed up into the hills to do some tree and brush removal off the old trail I’ve been working on.
I parked the quad runner and started up the trail with the saw and a pair of loppers.
The work begins
This was as far as I had the old trail cleared so far and I needed to clear the section ahead of brush and fallen logs off the trail.
Brushing
I started by brushing this section.
And sat down here for a break and to study how to cut a section out of this big log safely.
Cutting old logs
But first I went back to this section and started cutting old logs off the trail.
There were quite a few logs on the trail in this spot, but they were all fairly small which made it much easier to clear.
Safety first
Then it was back to the big one I’d studied and I studied it some more, just to be safe.
The big one
I got it cut, but the first cut stuck the saw in the tree as it cut through and I thought I was going to have to leave the saw here and get something to get it unstuck, but I wiggled it back and forth and finally got it out of the cut and was able to proceed with making some other cuts. The piece I cut out was fairly large and hard to move. I should of cut it once more, but I wanted to save gas for more logs to cut.
I walked out the trail further and cut these three logs where they crossed the old trail.
Final logs today
And the last place I had to cut was these two. I saved them until last as they had a lot of charcoal on them from a real old forest fire, long ago. I thought the charcoal might dull the saw. I also had a tough time moving the big one off the trail, but I got it.
It was almost five when I stopped and headed back down the trail to where the quad runner was parked.
Hawk in the garden
When I was riding by my brother’s garden I saw a hawk fly up and thought it might have gotten one of my brother’s chickens so I stopped to check it out, but it appeared to be interested in the robins feeding on the ground. That’s garlic growing there.
Enjoying the evening
Back home, I finished the day chair hopping around the yard until it started to get dark.
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.
