Saturday June 7, 2025 Guerneville CA.
Neighbors road work
Tom and I rode on up to where Skiddy was parked at the neighbors this morning to continue the road work clearing the huge amounts of brush off them. We are doing this for free for the neighbor.
Found some money
I climbed in the machine and started it up and then I saw an envelope stuck on the side of it by the controls.
It said, Thanks for all the work. Here’s some money for diesel, thanks. There was a thousand dollars in that little envelope. :O)
Get to work
We started off here on this road. Tom had to get this tree cut so I could start down the road with Skiddy pushing the tree off the road.
Tom cuts them
He cuts them and I push them off the road. It’s easier to push them off the road once they are cut otherwise they hung up and limbs try to get me in the cab and rip my hoses off the machine which I have to be careful of.
Tom also trims these overhanging branches off as they also try to get the rigs hoses and me if we don’t.
Here’s Tom trimming those branches so I can get by easily.
Big muddy spot
Just around corner from that was a big muddy spot from a big spring which took a bit more time to get around if I didn’t want to get stuck.
I worked on that while Tom explored the road we were working our way down while I did that. I didn’t get stuck and we continued on down the road.
Road narrows
The road narrowed down here so I had to be more careful not to go over the side when backing up.
Dangerous one
I ran into this long downed tree on that narrow road and got a bit tangled up in it with it over my machine and almost falling on me. I carefully backed out from it and it almost tore my hoses off to the bucket and I told Tom he’d have to cut it up a bit so that is what he is doing.
Tom made the cut and didn’t get his saw pinched and most of the tree fell down where I could push it off the road and get by. With the road being narrow here I didn’t have much room to maneuver the machine.
That road ended up at the guys house, which turned out to be his wife’s walking road which she hasn’t been able to use a long while.
Last road
Once I made it to the house, we turned back and cleared this road that turned off the other road and went up to his water tank. When we start a road, we don’t usually know where it’s going until we clear it. That was the last one for now. I think we got them all but if not, we’ll come back at a later date.
From there I rode the machine on over to my cousin’s place where I parked it for my next work at some more neighbor’s places.
Tom gave me a ride home.
Nice day.
Yes, some practical appreciation for a job that was well done with no expectation of financial reward is a good thing to hear about. Glad it happened.
It is nice that some one showed some appreciation for all the work you have been doing. That’s about 200 gallons of diesel there.
Wow! That’s a NICE tip.
No tax on tips.