I got some tools together and was just getting ready to ride up to work on some crossings when it started to rain. I seemed like it was just going to be a shower so I waited it out for a half hour and it finally quit.
I rode on up to this trail crossing as I wanted to prepare some stuff to put in a crossing so one can get across the water when it was up. i just needed to prep it a bit so I can put a piece of metal across that one can walk across when the water is up. I wanted to install something that was easy to do and didn’t cost much and would last a very long time, so metal was my choice.
I don’t want the metal crossing very high so it is safer to cross. I carved out this little spot to put a piece of metal across once I make it.
Mulch
A little leaf mulch blends things back in real nice.
Then I moved to the next one on up the waterfall trail and did about the same for this crossing.
Once that one was done, I rode on up to the waterfall mostly because I was on that trail and needed a place to turn around.
After a short break at the falls, I rode on down this trail a short distance.
And walked around these trees for a bit just checking things out.
And from there I worked my way back to my place for a break.
Skiddy’s track adjustment
It was time to check Skiddy’s tracks so I put it in the track checking position.
Once jacked up like this, I measured each track and used the grease gun to pump the track up to tighten it up. It’s important to keep the tracks tight so they don’t come off.
Skiddy’s bumper construction
My brother Tom told me about this old trailer hitch bracket he had at his place so I took my wheelbarrow over to haul it back to my place. It looks nice and beefy for the job.
I needed a longer piece of metal so I rounded up this one.
I was sitting around studying the job when my neighbor walked by with the chickens following her. The chickens are such bums and are always looking for someone to give them something to eat, even though they have plenty to eat in the yard.
Getting started
I was studying the job and doing some planning. I wasn’t planning to work on the metal today, but I thought I might as well get it started. I cut this piece of metal to length and ground it off a bit to fit.
That piece of metal fit like this. Now I need to trim the hitch to mount on that piece of metal.
I got the power hacksaw out and did some cutting on the hitch but didn’t get it finished as I ran out of daylight and need to set up my plasma cutter to finish trimming the hitch.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
