It was time to wake up the dozer as it’s been sitting in the rain all winter.
I greased it up and tried the starter and it started up with a little cranking.
I ran the engine for awhile to warm it up, then shut it off. That was easier than usual as most of the time I have to clean up the battery clamps.
Taking the quad up the trail
I loaded up the chainsaw on the smallest quad runner as I wanted to ride it up a trail and cut some trees off the trail that had fallen on it during the winter.
The quad runner just barely fits on the trail. With it’s large tires and me going slow I worked my way up the trail as the downed trees were at the top.
I stopped at this break rock for a bit.
I made it to the top and was going along here on the ridge top when I slid off the trail slightly because it was wet. There’s more slope on this part then the picture shows.
Just so that doesn’t happen again, I fixed up the trail in this spot.
Big rotten tree
I made it to the big rotten fir tree that fell down last winter across the trail and completely blocked it. I needed to cut a path through the mess.
The log broke up quite a bit when it fell over.
And the red stuff is rotten wood.
It took some doing but I got the trail cleared. Nothing like a bit of exercise and I did get some on this job.
With the log cleared off the trail I was able to ride out a bit further and cut this small log out of the way.
And this one got cleared out too.
From there, I walked out the trail further to a spot where I knew there was another big tree across the trail that I wanted to have a look at. I was pretty sure the chainsaw didn’t have enough gas to do this one and neither did I.
I think I can cut the one in front and go under the one in the back.
I returned to the quad runner and headed down the hill as I was starting to feel some big rain drops hitting me.
This is the part of the trail I repaired yesterday.
It was raining lightly when I got home so it was nap time.
A lot of trails and a lot of trees are keeping you busy. One of my father’s favorite achievements, with which he was very pleased, was scrounging part of a caterpillar bulldozer and the various parts to make a whole bulldozer, then assembling it, over quite a few years. He used it to push mesquites. I got to try it once. It was kind of fun; I can see the appeal. But – takes all kinds and we don’t all like the same stuff. (A good thing.)
Hi Bob, you sure have lots of trails to maintain. I bet those narrow trails are a blast on your bike. I see you are using the Husky for log cutting glad you found the decompression button I sure remember fast when I dont use the button on mine. Take care and keep up the good work.
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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.
A lot of trails and a lot of trees are keeping you busy. One of my father’s favorite achievements, with which he was very pleased, was scrounging part of a caterpillar bulldozer and the various parts to make a whole bulldozer, then assembling it, over quite a few years. He used it to push mesquites. I got to try it once. It was kind of fun; I can see the appeal. But – takes all kinds and we don’t all like the same stuff. (A good thing.)
Hi Bob, you sure have lots of trails to maintain. I bet those narrow trails are a blast on your bike. I see you are using the Husky for log cutting glad you found the decompression button I sure remember fast when I dont use the button on mine. Take care and keep up the good work.