Bob's Eyes

Wednesday February 7, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Tom brought his trailer over today. We needed to air up the tires and do a couple things to it to get it ready to go.

We checked out all the lights and got them going.

And then we headed on over to Santa Rosa. We were almost there when we saw real dark black clouds over Santa Rosa, and it rained and hailed.

We were here to pick up my new rig that was ready to go, the green one, not that hot rod one. :O)

The rain let up some as we pulled into this parking lot and loaded up my new work horse.

Back home, we unloaded the new Honda.

I rode it back to my house and loaded up my chainsaw to go for a ride and cut a few trees off the roads.

I didn’t get far when I ran into this one, but I couldn’t get the chainsaw started so I turned around and went another way thinking, I’d likely get that on the way back if I got the chainsaw going later.

I was trying the machine out going up hills and down hills to see how it performed and stopped here at the ridgetop. It was doing very well on the hills, both going up them and down them.

I was riding along here when I ran into my cousin and her two dogs. She asked if I’d cut that tree out of the way so we did.

She took this picture of me with my new toy. I think it’s going to be a real work horse

I remembered this tree from yesterday that got in my way, so drove down to it and cut it out of the way as I’d gotten the chainsaw going earlier.

All cleared off the road.

On the way home, I cut up the tree I first saw that the chainsaw wouldn’t start on..

I think my new rig will work out well.

Nice day.

Tuesday February 6, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest work, Clean up

With the rain and the storms settled down a bit, I gassed up the chainsaw and hopped on my quad runner to do some cleanup in the hills. Mostly tree stuff.

This was the first place I stopped to move these big redwood limbs off the road.

Then I moved on up the hill to this one I knew about and cleaned that up so I could get by.

And not far from that one, I cut up these trees and moved them off the road.

That’s good enough until I come by with a machine.

The next one was up on the ridgetop so I stopped here for a short break.

This was the next one and I’m getting worn out moving the cut stuff off the roads.

This mess had a bunch of poison oak vines mixed in with it.

Because of the poison oak, I just cut enough to get by.

I thought I had them all, but ran into this one, a madrone tree. I was hoping the saw would run out of gas so I could quit, but it didn’t.

Big one

I’ve been cutting on this big one a little at a time for a number of days now. My saw only ran about a minute before it ran out of gas which was good as I was out of gas too.

Name this spring

I stopped at this spring for a drink of water. I’ve been trying to figure out a good name for this spring for some time now. The other day I found an old log choker there so hung it up on the redwood tree there. I’d bet my uncle Howard Evans lost it there when he logged the place a long time ago.

Choker Spring

Here’s the old choker. It’s used to go around logs to hook onto them so they can be pulled away with a tractor. Even though it’s pretty rusty, it’s still usable.