Bob's Eyes

Tuesday January 9, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Rain

It rained a bit this morning, but stopped by the time I got it going and the sun came out.

Skiddy

I got into a little too much mud the other day up in the hills with Skiddy. I got the hoe out and scraped a lot of mud out of the tracks and then used a hose to wash most of it out.

That all made a big mess of dirt so I got the wheelbarrow out and hauled a load to a hole in the yard I’m working on filling up.

Dozer fueling

Now that I had an easy way to fuel things up, I took ten gallons of fuel over to the dozer and tried out my new pump some more. It worked well, except the soft hose kept trying to suck up the bottom of the fuel container, cutting off the fuel flow.

After fueling, I went on home and cut a piece of plastic pipe to put on the intake and cut some notches  on the end so it won’t suck to the bottom of the plastic container. That should work better.

Quad runner repair

One of my quad runners has been making a brake howling noise for some time now,  I needed to take it apart to have a look at the brake, so I got the tools out to take it apart.

I took it apart and had a look inside the brake drum and used some air to blow it out. I turned the axle a few times and the noise was gone, so I put it all back together.

Nice day.

Monday January 8, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Blog transfer report

Well, things didn’t go as planned yesterday, so it didn’t get transferred yet. It turned out that the guys doing the transfer had another copy they were working on and the one I was transferring to wasn’t working too good. Those guys are trying to get my photos transferred from the old site. Lots of my old photos got corrupt somehow when transferring them to the new site. I don’t think they will be successful as I think those photos  on the  old site are mostly corrupt too, but I’ll let them try. When they finish with their work, I’ll try to switch on the new site again.

Forest work

I rode Skiddy up into the hills today to do some work for a neighbor.

Broke down

I was doing good when I noticed the blade wasn’t angling and then the joysticks buttons stopped working. I wasn’t sure what was wrong. I got out and had a look and found that two wires going to the blade had caught a branch and shorted out. The controls worked good enough for me to limp on home. Only the lowest speed would work.

Once home, I got the manual out and found out where the fuses were located. I found the joy stick trigger controls had blown a fuse. I replaced that and all was good, so I repaired the shorted wires and tested it again. Works good now.

Fuel transfer bracket

I put the new bracket I made on the quad and finished hooking up the new fuel pump system. Of course, the hook up wires weren’t long enough to make it to the quads battery so I extended those.

Fueling

I moved the quad over to Skiddy to fuel it up and try out the new system. The first thing I noticed was the hose that goes in the gas can had a filter on it that wouldn’t fix through the containers opening, so I removed that. The containers have some plastic screens in them that I also had to remove.

The new fueling system works good. It took about a minute to transfer five gallons of diesel.

Nice day.