Wednesday September 4, 2024 Guerneville CA.
Skiddy’s bumper upgrade
I was working on this bumper.
Brace prep
I needed to prep some braces. I needed to scrape some paint off so I could weld them up. First, I had to bolt them on and tighten them up. I already had the braces made and drilled for mounting.
I got them bolted on, one on the right and one on the left on each side of the bumper.
This is the one of the left, ready to weld up, but not today.
Big culvert inspection
After I got that work done, I rode up into the hills and parked on this road as I had something to check out, just up the road a bit.
Old culvert
There was an old culvert I thought was three feet diameter, but it turned out to be a six foot diameter one. Here’s the output end of it which I wanted to get down and look inside to see what was going on.
It had some rocks and a big piece of wood in it which shouldn’t be there, but I was more interested in the damage at the top, so I had to go to the other end of it.
The input end was fairly torn up from a guy taking out a big stump with a backhoe, but that wasn’t the problem.
I got down inside that end to have a look. There’s the big piece of wood that needs to go.
The big rip
And there is the big rip put in there by a grader guy that messed the culvert up with his grader many years ago and that is the problem. He ran his grader’s blade through the top of the culvert, messing it up, like a dumb ass. :O)
The rip
It looks real bad but it’s been holding up for cars and trucks going up and down on the road. But this road has to be ready for fire trucks eventually, so this will have to get fixed somehow and a six foot culvert is larger than I want to deal with.
I’ll have to figure out how to deal with this, eventually.
Water tank overflow pipe
Then I went up the road further where there was a water tank from a spring. I needed to figure out how to route the overflow pipe away from the road, so I looked at that and figured out how to route it away from the road so it won’t erode the road during the winter.
The neighbor whose water tank that is said they would get me some black plastic pipe to fix that up.
From there, I headed on home for a nap and some chair hopping and took it easy for the rest of the day.
Nice day.
