Friday April 4, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Neighbors road work

I was to meet Cliff up at the road we were going to open today. The road is one that goes through another neighbor’s property who claims no one has a legal right of way through his place. Even though another neighbor took him to court a few years ago to prove he did have a right to pass through his property.

I rode on up to where I parked Skiddy the other day and got it warmed up and drove down the hill about a mile to the road we were going to work on.

Road work

I got to the road first and started opening up the first slide. I’d say there were three big slides with trees in them which complicated things quite a bit as the trees were stuck in the slides so required a lot of work to free them up. Cliff showed up. He’s mostly supervising.

Neighbor’s an ass

It wasn’t too long before the land owner showed up in a huff. Bottom line, get off the property as no one has a legal right of way through the place. We knew better. After some contemplating, we decided to ignore him and get the road opened up. The guy stayed and took pictures of the whole process. The best I could give him is he is an ass. He wants to use every one else’s roads that go through their property, but doesn’t want anyone to go through his place and he doesn’t have a legal right of way though the other neighbor’s places.

He’d built a road a few years back to get into his place which is just above the road I’m working on opening up. His road has washed out several times causing all the big slides on the road I”m working on.

I ran into several big trees inside the slides that took a lot of extra time. I got all three big slides removed and a half dozen littler ones and the road was open.

I would of taken some pictures, but I left my camera back in my side by side.

When I left the slide area, I loaded up the bucket on Skiddy with rock, to drop off on the way out in a big hole by another neighbor’s driveway. I didn’t have enough rock to fill the muddy hole and looked for some more rock along the road, but didn’t find any, so I had to use some dirt with only a few rocks in it. I think that muddy hole might be in a bigger mess than when I started. Oh well.

I made it back to where the side by side was parked and fueled up Skiddy. Then I headed on down the road through the state park to my place.