I decided to remake the box trap trigger I made yesterday as I thought I could make one a little better then the first one. The new one is on the left and the little notches in it are the improvement as the notches are smaller and should be easier to set off by a critter and easier to set the trap.
The cat came by to check things out as I was installing the new trigger piece. She was smart enough not to go into the trap.
This is the new trigger stick that a critter just has to hit slightly to set off the trap door to close shut.
Ready to go
I left the trap here for Tom to pick up on his way by to take care of his chickens.
Dozer fueling
Next I loaded five gallons of fuel for the dozer and took it over to put it in the machine.
Thinking smart
The full container on the left was more then my sore right arm could left so I had to transfer some to another container so I could get the fuel into the dozer. That worked. One has to do thinks differently sometimes when one gets older if one wants to get stuff done that used to be simple when younger.
Crossing rocks
After that was done I rode up to this washout area and put a few more rocks in the crossing. This one will take quite a few rocks before I’m done with it.
Trail work
And then I continued on up the trail to this spot where I parked and am now walking up the trail a short distance.
Today that green fern covered rock has to get removed as the old trail here is too narrow and needs to be widened out. I hope that rock will break up so I can move it. The big steel wrecker bar was brought up to do the job. I should of brought up a sledge hammer too as it would have made breaking up the big rock easier.
That rock turned out to be part of the whole mountain so I couldn’t move it, but had to break up into smaller pieces.
Working on it
I worked on breaking up the rock and building that rock retaining wall until it got too dark to do any more.
Got dark on me
The dark had creped up on me so I had to ride on home in the dark.
Dead rooster
When I got home I went to close up the chickens for the night and found a young rooster dead by the gate to the pen.
I thought Tom’s fox must have been here just a bit ago.,,,,,,But.
It’s not the fox
Tom came by to tell me a hawk had killed the young rooster not the fox.
Buried the bird
I buried the dead rooster just like Tom buried his 50 dead birds He used his tractor though. I only needed a shovel.
Bob, I totally agree with your approach to completing heavy work we used to do so easily when we were young and strong. I do it all the time with my RA.
I will be completely surprise if you find out for certain the Fox was the mass murderer of the 50 chickens. Doesn’t sound like ordinary Fox behavior, unless it has other serious problems.
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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.
Bob, I totally agree with your approach to completing heavy work we used to do so easily when we were young and strong. I do it all the time with my RA.
I will be completely surprise if you find out for certain the Fox was the mass murderer of the 50 chickens. Doesn’t sound like ordinary Fox behavior, unless it has other serious problems.