I was thinking of going up and visiting with some neighbors up on the hill, but as I chair hopped around the yard, waking up, I changed my mind and I put on my old clothes and rode up the hill to work on the old trail a bit.
To the top
I rode the dirt bike up to the top for the first time on the old part of the trail I’d been working on earlier in the yard. I took it slow and easy with my feet on the ground several times just to make sure I didn’t ride off the trail and end up down on the side of a steep hill.
I made to the top ok, and with a little more practice I should do better.
I parked the bike on the ridge top and walked out this part of the trail that has some steep parts where the trail goes through.
Trail work
This is the part I worked on today. I only worked about two hours and then went on home.
This is the part I’ll work on next time.
Spring tapping prep
After a nap and some chair hopping, I put the shovel on the quad runner and rode up to a spring I want to tap soon. I shoveled a bunch of dirt out to get into the hill more to find out where the main water is coming out of the hill. I took some video’s but forgot to get any pictures. I plan to make a video of the process of tapping this spring for YouTube. The spring tapping video I made and is on YouTube and is popular.
Low Cost, Easy to Make Sanitary Spring Tapping For Water
Anyway I got the part I wanted opened up and went on home.
Wild blackberry vine removal
Later in the evening, I got the loppers out and headed for this raspberry patch to cut out some of the wild blackberry vines that are growing up in the patch and lot wanted as they have real sharp thorns.
The ones with the sharp thorns are the blackberry ones I’m working on cutting out.
Here’s a bunch more of the not wanted vines.
You can see the big thorns on this one. My chicken’s don’t like them either, but the deer do. A deer got in the patch and ate on this one, but didn’t touch the raspberry vines.
Steep and precipitous trail….at times. I would probably be a-scaired some places.
Maybe I should try some blackberry vines now that I’m living in town. Haven’t got much sun here though. Yours really run rampant. I do love blackberries. OK. Stay safe riding up there.
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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.
Steep and precipitous trail….at times. I would probably be a-scaired some places.
Maybe I should try some blackberry vines now that I’m living in town. Haven’t got much sun here though. Yours really run rampant. I do love blackberries. OK. Stay safe riding up there.