Bob's Eyes

Saturday June 14, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Machine maintenance

My skidder needs to be greased, so I got the new battery powered grease gun I bought recently and took it up into the hills where Skiddy was parked and got to greasing it up.

That battery grease gun works real good and makes greasing stuff very easy.

Once that was done, I went over to a neighbors to look at a road I said I’d fix. That road has a hair-pin turn that is hard to get around so I  had a look at it to improve it so a fire truck could get around it. I’ll need to cut some trees down to make the turn better.

Pond

Then I rode over to our pond for a drink of water.

Water hole

From there I drove on down to this little water hole I’m expanding to make it a bit larger.

It was good to see the new part was full of water.

From there I rode on over to another neighbor’s to check on this narrow road to see where it went. I’ll need to get some trees cut before I can open it

I followed the road to see where it was going. It’s a bit over grown.

I went down to this neighbor’s house but no one was home.

Drink

I needed a drink of water so I headed over to our main spring.

I got a drink of water here that hit the spot.

Tom’s garden

From there I headed for home stopping here to see how Tom’s garden was doing and found Tom working on it.

Chickens out of control

My chickens have been jumping the fences an heading out on the highway and over to neighbor’s too, so I looked up clipping wing feathers and I and a neighbor just went out and clipped one wing’s feathers to see if that will slow them down. Clipping feather wings is suppose to make it so they can’t steer in flight. We’ll see if that helps any.

Nice day.

Friday June 13, 2025 Guerneville CA.

Forest road work

I needed to go back down the old dirt road today to clean up the water ditch dirt that I dug out yesterday and piled along the road.

That meant I needed to change the blade back to the bucket which I did.

Working

Here I am smoothing out the dirt that I’d piled along the road from the water crossing work yesterday. It’s good because I was able to use the dirt to build up the outside of the road to make it better for when cars have to pass each other on the road.

Drink

I got thirsty and got a drink out of this  little spring on the road. I got a little drink before I messed it up cleaning it out some more.

Spring

There wasn’t that much to do today on the road, so after I went for a ride at our place and stopped at this spring for a good drink of water.

I made it this overlook where I sat for a break.

Pool

Then I rode on down to this area where I’m trying to make this little water hole a bit larger so it will support mosquito fish as the little water hole that is there won’t support them.

I’d carved out this little hole a week or so ago and now it needs some water in it to see if it will hold water. I diverted the water from the little hole in the back there to see if it will fell with water or not.

This is the little water hole that I diverted to the larger hole. It’s fed by a  spring about a thousand feet up the hill that is piped down to this spot.

Pond

On the way home, I stopped by the pond to enjoy it a bit. It’s large enough to support the mosquito fish and is full of them.

Cell phone problem

Back home I called my cell phone provider to see about getting a new sim card for it to try and get WIFI calling to work. I was lucky in getting a supervisor on the phone right away, that was good.  I asked for a new sim card. She said she’d send me one, but she said they didn’t support WIFI calling. Darn. I heard from them that it did and some said it wasn’t supported. I’ll try the new sim card but think I’m going to have to get another provider to get the WIFI calling thing to work, so the phone is useful to me.

John Deere

I also emailed John Deere about my six way blade not working right which they didn’t fix for me last time as it’s an intermittent problem that they couldn’t find.

I’ve not been happy with that as it’s a new blade and should work right. They said they’d try it again but wanted me to ship the machine and blade to them at my cost.  Bull, that’s very costly. They seem to think the problem might be in the machine instead of the blade which I doubt. I’m thinking of installing a volt meter on the blades switching system to check it out myself to prove to them it’s not the machine. I figure I can do that with a car lighter USB plug in that has a volt meter on it that I can hard wire to the switching system so I ordered one up on Amazon.

Nice day.