Bob's Eyes

Sunday October 8, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Spring work

I rode on up to finish off the spring I was tapping around noon today.

I only had a little work to do to finish off this spring tap and today I brought up my flashlight so I could see what was going on in the hole as it was dark in there. I got the outlet pipe installed. I was shooting video clips to make another spring tapping video for YouTube so I needed the light for that too.

Rock it

I installed the stainless steel kitchen strainer and started to fill the hole up with rocks.

My camera’s night vision works pretty good too. I’ve had this camera for years and just discovered the night shot button.

660 gallons a day

I measured the spring’s output and there was about a half gallon every minute which comes out to about 660 gallons a day.

I threw some leaves and forest debris over the whole thing to finish it off. I’ll put some black paint on the white pipe eventually to make it blend into the forest better.

Drink of Water Spring video is here

This is a detailed video of how I tap a spring.

https://youtu.be/NOhN5NNNlc4

Trail cam shots

On the way home I picked up a trail cam card.

This bobcat came by in the day while I was down below working on the spring the other day.

And this fox has been coming by every night. It stopped to eat an apple core I throw out after eating the apple.

I’ll be working on putting the YouTube video together for this spring. Spring tapping videos are my most popular videos on YouTube.

Nice day.

Saturday October 7, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Apples

I grabbed two apples off the tree to take with me up into the hills for a snack later.

Spring in the hills

Then I grabbed some tools I needed and rode on up into the hills to this spring I’ve been working on tapping.

I needed to dig out the ditch for this pipe to make it a bit deeper to catch the spring water.

The spring is coming out of the hill here, but now I have a problem.

It’s too dark to see where the water is coming from and I didn’t bring a flash light up with me.

But I discovered a button on my camera I’ve never used that said night shot, so I pressed the button to give it a try. That really improved the picture.

I dug out the pipe ditch some more until I had it about right.

The pipe is ready to install, but to do it right, I need a flashlight to make sure I line things up properly. I didn’t feel I could trust the night shot on the camera to do it.