I also worked on another one of my kayak trip on the river and got it done but I’m finding uploading one this big is taking a long time. I started this one uploading last night when I went to bed and all day today and it’s still working on it and is now at 61 percent. Goes to show shorter video is better most of the time but I thought I’d try it and see how it works out.
Mulching
I started out the day with a little yard work. I loaded up this wheelbarrow about 8 times and moved this chip mulch to the raspberry patch just behind the chip pile, so not far.
This is what I moved today, a good start.
Van smells of gas
The main thing I wanted to do today was test my van for propane leaks as last time I traveled I thought I smelled gas, so I need to check it out.
I turned the tank on and in a few minutes I opened the door and sure enough, I thought I smelled gas.
That’s it
It was fairly strong so I started looking around the van where my nose was and that’s the heater in the door. I could see the hose to the heater was cracked so that was it.
So I moved the van out of the carport where I could see things to work on it.
Cracked heater hose
This is the gas line for the heater with cracks in it near the heater.
Bad gas line when gets heated
See the cracks in the supply line. Interesting enough that’s the same type fuel line that got cracks in it and almost burned my van up last year. The interesting thing is the cracks in the fuel line are near where it gets a little heat from the heater. The engine fuel line got heat from the engine and it seems these cracks are only around places where the fuel line gets warmed a bit.
Cracks in the supply line near the heater.
Tough stuff to cut
I decided to replace that fuel line with the same stuff I used on the van after the fire. I found the fuel line but it has steel wires in it so I needed my brothers die grinder with a cut off wheel to cut it and he was off somewhere so I put that project aside for now.
Of course I’d been doing some chair hopping around the yard daring all this.
Chainsaw
The last time I used my chainsaw up in the woods I knocked the chain off so it needed to be put back on before using it again so I tackled that reinstalling the chain and adjusting it and topping up the fluids.
Forest chores
That done I loaded it on the quad runner and rode on up to this tree across the road.
Three cuts and that tree was logs so I moved them off the road.
I continued to the next place I needed to use the saw through this fire break area that’s getting some new grass.
I parked here and walked down the trail behind the quad runner with the chainsaw.
Redwood stumps too wide
The big stump on the left is partially blocking the trail so the plan was to cut part of it off to widen out the trail.
Much better
It took awhile but finally the part I cut off fell down the hill and it looked like this, plenty wide now, the trail is about four feet wide here now.
That was the last thing I wanted to work on so I headed on home having gotten enough exercise today.
I let the chickens out to graze in the front yard which I do most evenings.
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.
