That’s how I started the day. I chair hopped around the yard as my back was still pretty sore.
Tree trimming
But in the afternoon I felt like doing something so I got my chainsaw and quad runner and rode up into the forest to cut some trees off the road that I saw yesterday that I couldn’t get with the dozer. They were too high up in the air for the dozer.
Big job
I didn’t have a lot of energy so it took me quite awhile to get the job done. I didn’t think it’d be a big job but with the trees high in the air it was
I got enough of the trees cut to get by and cleaned up the mess throwing the brush off the road.
Forest ride
After that I was pretty worn out so I took a quad runner ride up around the forest going up this road.
Poison oak vine
I wasn’t looking for anymore work but I ran into this big vine that had fallen down off the high trees. I checked it out to see what it was. Poison oak, about a two inch diameter vine.
I got the chainsaw out and cut it down being real careful of the chainsaw chips as even though I don’t catch the stuff it’s not a good idea to push your luck with the sap and with the saw chips flying I had to be real careful not to get hit by any of them. Only a few of them got me and only time will tell about that.
I didn’t want to pass it up and leave it or I’d likely get tangled up in it when I came by with a larger rig.
Worn out
After a bit more of a ride through the forest I headed on home for a nap and some resting as I was worn out.
Broken van shackle removal
I’s set up the van to work on getting the broken shackle off the old van earlier in the day but just getting it going to work on it, not until late evening.
I figured it wouldn’t take too long or too much work but I was wrong. That was mostly because the last guy that had worked on this put the top bolt in backwards and I couldn’t get it out without taking the stuck rubber bushing out.
See the bolt is almost out but is hitting the van. Somehow I had to figure out how to push the stuck rubber bushing out which wasn’t that easy considering there wasn’t much room to work under there and the bushing was real stuck.
Tried different stuff
I tried several different things and wasn’t having much success but finally figured out a way to drive that stuck rubber bushing out and the bolt finally came out.
Here’s all the shackle parts with the two broken parts. I’ll have to find some new ones to replace those broken ones and it needs new rubber bushings too.
By the time I got those parts apart, it was almost dark so I went on in the house.
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.
