Bob's Eyes

Wednesday September 4, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Skiddy’s bumper upgrade

I was working on this bumper.

Brace prep

I needed to prep some braces. I needed to scrape some paint off so I could weld them up. First, I had to bolt them on and tighten them up. I already had the braces made and drilled for mounting.

I got them bolted on, one on the right and one on the left on each side of the bumper.

This is the one of the left, ready to weld up, but not today.

Big culvert inspection

After I got that work done, I rode up into the hills and parked on this road as I had something to check out, just up the road a bit.

Old culvert

There was an old culvert I thought was three feet diameter, but it turned out to be a six foot diameter one. Here’s the output end of it which I wanted to get down and look inside to see what was going on.

It had some rocks and a big piece of wood in it which shouldn’t be there, but I was more interested in the damage at the top, so I had to go to the other end of it.

The input end was fairly torn up from a guy taking out a big stump with a backhoe, but that wasn’t the problem.

I got down inside that end to have a look. There’s the big piece of wood that needs to go.

The big rip

And there is the big rip put in there by a grader guy that messed the culvert up with his grader many years ago and that is the problem. He ran his grader’s blade through the top of the culvert, messing it up, like a dumb ass. :O)

The rip

It looks real bad but it’s been holding up for cars and trucks going up and down on the road. But this road has to be ready for fire trucks eventually, so this will have to get fixed somehow and a six foot culvert is larger than I want to deal with.

I’ll have to figure out how to deal with this, eventually.

Water tank overflow pipe

Then I went up the road further where there was a water tank from a spring. I needed to figure out how to route the overflow pipe away from the road, so I looked at that and figured out how to route it away from the road so it won’t erode the road during the winter.

The neighbor whose water tank that is said they would get me some black plastic pipe to fix that up.

From there, I headed on home for a nap and some chair hopping and took it easy for the rest of the day.

Nice day.

Tuesday September 3, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest ride

I went outside this morning and saw Barry’s truck in the yard. He’d gone out for a dirt bike ride without me. He likes to do that so he can ride the steep stuff which I usually avoid.

I sat down for some chair hopping and it wasn’t too long before Barry came riding in on his bike. Seems he’d had a mishap on one of his steeper hills and had falling over and got his leg stuck under the bike and couldn’t get it out until he pulled his foot out of his shoe. He said it was on a steep slope, so he had a hard time getting the bike back up. He had a bit of blood and a sore hip out of the deal and I bet some other pains tonight.

We sat around for awhile then we hopped on our bikes and rode around in the forest for awhile.

Spring

We stopped at this spring for a drink of water and both noticed the spring tasted different today for some reason. Not as good as usual.

We rode off and stopped at this spring for a drink of water to see if the taste of this one was off or not.

This spring water tasted real good at this one.

From there we rode over to a neighbor’s place where no one lives and stopped at the house for a bit.

I suggested we go out their gate which is usually locked , but not now, to see a big rock we can see from our resting area at the top of the hill.

We stopped here and Barry is headed out onto the big rock. It’s a straight drop off.

Barry, being a retired surveyor, pulls out his phone and starts checking things. We thought this might be Gabe’s Rock, as that is what this road from town is called, but no, it was down the road further.

Our break area is on the left ridge top, so we can see this rock from up there. There’s the house we stopped at on the way down to the rock about in the middle of the picture.

The house is situated nicely in the forest trees.

Visiting

From there we rode over to my cousin’s house and visited with them for a bit catching up on all the forest news.

Eventually, we left and headed for my place where Barry took off for his place and I went in for a nap.

I did some chair hopping around the yard and took it easy for the rest of the day, even though I had plans to do some work.

Nice day.