Saturday May 17, 2025 Guerneville CA.
Forest bike ride
Barry showed up in my yard this morning for a ride in the forest, so we took off and rode around a bit on our property.
Eventually we ended up at our break area at the top of the hill for a break.
There were a few clouds in the sky and it was a bit windy.
Fly’s
We don’t usually have much problems with bugs around here, but we seem to have some black fly’s around this year for the first time and they were bothering us a bit.
Barry finally had enough of them and he got up and we took off for some more riding around the place.
We stopped here as Barry wanted to remove a stick that was hanging over the road so I threw some rocks off the road while he got the stick out of the way.
Big log
We were surprised to see a big fir tree had fallen across the old dirt road I’ve been working on. It fell last evening. We heard it blocked some people that live back in these hills and they had to cut the tree out of the way to get home last night.
Eventually we got tired of riding around and made it back to my place where Barry took off for his place. I had a nap, of course.
Filling the ditch up
Later in the day, I rode Skiddy over to this place as I needed to fill the ditch that sunk in the grass about six inches with dirt. The ditch is a bit hard to see, but I got some dirt and filled it up.
Skiddy’s error codes
Earlier before we went riding, Barry was successful finding out what the error codes where that showed up on Skiddy yesterday.
It seems they indicate that Skiddy has a problem with the exhaust cleaning system. I remember it didn’t run awhile back. The engine usually goes through a cycle where the engine goes to a higher rpm and heats up until it cleans out the exhaust system and it failed to run last time and hasn’t run in a long time, so this seems to be what is wrong with the skidder.
Now, I should be able to get John Deere to repair the unit, I hope, as it’s under warranty.
Nice day.
