Putting Skiddy To Work and Hauling Rocks

Tuesday September 10, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest work

Tom and I rode up to where the skidder was parked after we got the track back on it yesterday. He dropped me off and went back home while I went to work with Skiddy.

Prep work

Today, I was doing some prep work on an old road that needs some repair work done on it.

I stopped here to get one of those big rocks to put in a hole on the side of the road that had washed out. I hauled it back up the road to where the hole was and dumped the rock in the hole, pushing it down in the dirt, so it wouldn’t roll down the hill.

Spring

Then I drove over to a spot in the road where there was spring with a culvert that crossed the road that was partially plugged up. I dug out some of the dirt there and the big ferns came with the dirt.

Old road

Next I drove up to this old road that goes to my cousin’s spring that got blocked over the years and needed to be opened up.

Darn tracks

I was working on that a road when I heard the dreaded clunk, clunk of the track coming off so I stopped and got out to have look. I was able to just back up and get the track back on properly. I’m learning that these rubber tracks don’t like uneven surfaces much.

I was just finishing opening up that old road when Tom came by in his rig to see what I was up to. I was just finishing up for the day.

Driveway rocks

But I still had some more work to do on the way home. I got a load of small rocks and dumped them on my cousin’s driveway and spread them out, on the way home.