It seemed like a good day to go up the hill and cut some trees off a trail I’ve been looking at. So, I gassed and oiled the chain saw that’s working. It seemed like it was sharp enough, but I decided to sharpen up the chain so I did that too. I had a new file which made the job easier.
I fastened the saw on the little quad I ride and rode up the hill to the Y and parked here as the trail was just down from this spot, but I had to walk as there were trees across the trail.
Started with this tree
This was the first tree I cut off the trail, a fir tree and the little one had to go too.
I cut it in big chunks, but later whet back and cut it up smaller so I could push it off the trail.
The next tree was a bigger mess, a big oak tree.
The saw makes quick work of trees like that.
Here’s another smaller tree I cut off the trail.
That all tuckered me out more than I thought it would, so I was beat, but I got the trees off the trail.
The dozer needs to be run
I needed to exercise the dozer so I rode down to it and warmed it up and rode it back up the hill as I wanted to go to the top of the ridge where a big tree was across the road.
I drove on up the road through here.
The ridge top is where I can overlook the town of Guerneville, here.
I took care of that tree
I pushed the big tree off the road and started back down the hill going through here. The stuff you see on the road is fresh from a wild pig rooting things up looking for bugs, worms and acorns.
I took the dozer down through here and parked it up higher than my quad runner was parked.
A nice little walk down the hill
So I had to walk down through here on this old road, back to where the quad runner was parked. Good thing it was down hill as I was pretty beat by now.
By the time I got home I could barely move, so I guess I got enough exercise today. The day was almost over so that was it for me. I always enjoy working in the woods for another nice 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.
