I was expecting Barry and his buddy’s to come by for a dirt bike ride in the forest. They didn’t show up at the usual time so I worked on some stuff while waiting for them to show up.
I haven’t been able to get the automatic gate controller to work so I went out to take some measurements. They all looked good, so it’s still not fixed. I tried to call support on this, but the phone wait times were long, so I gave up on that for now.
Dozer air cleaner
Then I rode up into the hills where the dozer was parked to install the cleaned air cleaner on the dozer, an easy job.
The air cleaner went together much easier than it came apart.
Culvert repair
Then I rode the short distance to this culvert I’ve been working on and did some digging around the sides so I can measure for a piece to make and install to fix this. I studied it to get a design on what I need to make to fix it.
Dirt bikes
As I was riding back, I heard the motor bikes so caught up with the guys on the dirt bikes at this spring where they were getting a drink of water.
Nothing like a drink of fresh spring water.
I told them I’d take Hondo home and get my dirt bike and join them, which I did. I caught up to them and we rode around a bit, then made it up to our break area for a break.
Another nice view for another nice day up in the hills.
After a good break we rode around some more then headed back to my place and they took off for their home.
Culvert repair tank
I had this old water pressure tank out in my yard, so I rolled it back to the shop so I can work on it.
I plan to cut it in half to fit the culverts up in the hills. I think it might be strong enough to do the job. If not, I can double it up. So now I have to mark it and cut it up, but not today.
Trail cam
While I was up in the hills I picked up the trail cam card at the Y. Some foxes and deer and this shot of the mountain lion. I think this is a female with cubs somewhere.
I wonder what the people in Guerneville would think if they knew a mountain lion was so close to town?
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.
Probably not the only one.
Yes, where there’s one, there’s more. :O)
Bob