Bob's Eyes

Thursday October 31, 2024 Guerneville  CA.

Dozer wakeup

I brought the charged up battery back up the hill for the dozer and got it installed.

Then I added some oil to the transmission as it has a slow leak.

Trouble, I thought

It started right up with a charged up battery, but. It seemed to have the  brakes stuck on when i tried to move it. After some messing around, I thought someone must of worked the turning levers too much while playing with it as that can cause the brake adjusters to adjust up too much. I thought, this is bad, now I will have to take things apart to re-adjust the brakes so they would work properly.

I took off for a ride with Hondo and my thinker finally kicked in and I thought maybe someone just accidentally set the parking brake by pushing the brake pedal and the little parking brake lever got set and, just maybe that was all that was a matter with it, so I did a U-turn and went back to the dozer and checked the brake pedal.

Fortunately

Fortunately for me, that was the problem. I never use the parking brake mush because I drop the blade when I park so that pretty much is a parking brake.

I figure someone saw the dozer out in the woods and got in and played like they were running the dozer pushing and pulling things and that darn brake got set.

Anyway, I was happy for that and I headed over to where I will need it to do some work soon, up this road.

Stubborn tree

I fixed a few things on the road on the way over. When I went by this tree, I decided to stop and push it over, but it didn’t want to push over, so I chipped away at it with the blade breaking it up a bit until the dozer could push it over, just barely, but i got it out of the way as it went over the bank.

A neighbor came by just before I pushed it over and helped me throw some roots off the road.

I flattened out the road a bit where the tree’s stump left a big hole and then moved on down the road to a place I wanted to park the dozer and parked it.

A walk

Now, I needed to walk the mile back to where Hondo was  parked where the dozer started out from, along this road. Always lots of exercise around here.

Nice day.

Wednesday October 30, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Bulldozer wakeup

I hadn’t messed with the bulldozer for a long time, so today I got my stuff together and drove on up the hill to where it was parked.

Battery

I was pretty sure the battery wasn’t going to have enough juice in it to start it, and it didn’t.

I removed the battery to take it home and put it on the charger.

Then I gave it a good grease job and that was all I could do for now, until I get the battery charged up.

I stopped here to dig out a bit of dirt in this new ditch.

I left there, but didn’t get far before I ran into this limb across the road. I used the chainsaw on it.

And this was the next one I ran into. I used the chainsaw on it, but that caused the chain to fall off. I got it cut just before that happened.

Back home, I put the battery on the charger.

I think it was nap time after that.

Later in the day, I drove Skiddy up into the hills to the rock slide to get another load of rock for the creek bulkhead I’m fixing up.

I’m dumping the load just up ahead between those two little trees.

I dumped the load of rock in the bulkhead.

I think I have enough rock in the bulkhead now. I got down there and moved some of the rock around by hand to get it in the spots it missed.

It’s going to start raining soon, so I needed to tarp my metal work table. I oiled it up first, then put the tarp on it and tilted it so no water would settle on it.

And I needed to put the van away for the winter, so I cleared a spot, but at the last minute, I decided to leave the van out to get rained on as it would wash it off a bit and maybe clean off the solar panels. I’ll put it away after the first rain.

And I went out to the chicken pen and got a dozen eggs as I thought they would be nice for dinner.

Nice day.