Marty came by today for a visit. We sat around and shot the bull for a bit, then we loaded up the chainsaw on the quads and took the battery charger over to the bulldozer to put the battery on the charger.
Forest work
There was a big rotten dead fir tree that I knew was across one of the roads so we headed on up that way to work on getting it off one of the roads.
On the way, this was the first tree we stopped to get off the road, an easy one.
A bit further on, we ran into this one and cut it up and got it off the road.
And this one was the next one. We were getting tired out before we got to the one we wanted to clear off the road, but that’s the way it goes.
The big one
It wasn’t far before we arrived at the big dead fir tree that we came up here to clear.
Poison oak vines
This tree had a bunch of big poison oak vines on it that fell down with the tree so we’d have to watch out for those.
I carefully cut the poison oak vines off this log first. Then I cut the fir tree log into small enough pieces for us to roll them off the road, enough to get a jeep by.
Break spot
That one was enough to tire us out so we headed up to this break spot at an overlook to take a break.
Break spot view
Some rain was coming in tonight, so these clouds were coming in and the day was cooling down.
One last one
On the way home we stopped here to cut this little stuff out of the way. You can see Marty is a bit on the cold side. It didn’t take long to get this stuff cleared and we rode on home.
Marty took off for his house and I went in for a nap.
Nice day playing in the forest, getting some exercise.
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.
