Thursday November 21, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Rock slide work
I had an email in the box this morning saying the rock slide I took out yesterday had slid again and did I have time to fix it.
I got all my rain gear on as it was still raining fairly hard and rode on up there. The dozer needed some oil in the transmission so I filled it up and drove on down the to nearby slide.
A neighbor had been working on it and had it cleared out, but he piled all the rock along the road so there wasn’t much room for more rock to come down from the slide without fully blocking the road again.
I worked on pushing the piles of rock up and down the road to dissipate it. While I was doing that, it poured down rain which got all the rock stuff soaking wet and things got a bit sloppy.
Also, while I was working on it, the slide slid four more times, once with lots of rock coming down.
After a few hours work, I got all the rock spread on the road and was hoping the slide would stop.
This is the upper part of the rock slide. Water is coming out of the rock and it’s all real loose, so more is bound to come down, especially with all the rain we are getting.
I went over to the park guys shop to chat a bit and give the slide a little time to see if it was going to slide right away. When I came back at 4, the slide hadn’t slid, so I headed for home.
Tree across the road
I didn’t get far before I ran into this downed tree across the road that wasn’t there earlier when I came down it. I had my chainsaw, so cut it up in pieces to make the pieces light enough for me to move off the road.
I had one more small tree to clear higher up on the hill.
I stopped at my cousin’s place on the ridge top to give them a report of the condition of the road and we shot the bull for a bit.
I rode on down the hill in the pouring down rain and made it home where I stoked the woodstove up to warm up a bit.
Rain gauge
I use a bucket for a rain gauge as the little ones just don’t go high enough. The bucket is not perfectly accurate, but close enough.
It says about 13 inches for the storm, so far.
Chickens
It was time to lock the chickens in for the night and they were all up on the roost early and a bit wet.
Nice day working in the rain.
