I was back up in the woods working on this trail by noon today. I needed the trail not only for me to walk on but I needed a good bed to lay the black water pipe on to maintain the proper slope to the pipe so the water will flow properly.
Trail work
I started with this part of the trail as I needed to dig down around that redwood there to get the pipe through and on down the trail.
Laying the water pipe
I worked on putting the right slope on the trail for three hours or so and was pretty pooped but I had more to do.
I made it with the pipe down past that redwood tree so far.
I did work on more trail for the older main pipe, the main line I want to hook into which I’ll have to move onto the trail to make it work out.
Moving blue clay and forming the dam
Next I needed to haul some more buckets of clay to this spring dam. You can see the clay I’ve put in so far needs to be smoothed out and the holes all filled in to complete the clay dam.
This is how I left it yesterday and ready for more clay.
I hauled up a number of half buckets of blue clay and dumped it here ready to apply to the dam. The blue clay works best if it gets worked around some in your hands to soften it up a bit.
Dam‘s finished
It’s hard to tell but the dam slopes up to the front so it forms a dam for the water to go down the drain pipe which you can see towards the back.
Here’s the drain pipe with a small sink of clay built around it to direct the water down the pipe. I’ve smoothed the clay out and it’s now ready for a screen which I plan to make out of some stainless steel I have.
Backs hurting a bit
My back was already saying that’s enough before I started on the clay so once the clay was done I loaded up and limped home for the day and applied an ice pack to my back right away.
I got a lot of exercise and quite a bit done for a good day working in the woods. I think tomorrow I need a rest and will go down to the river to a relaxing day kayaking.
You sure did have a great workout and got a lot done. ice pack and relaxing is a good thing.
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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.
You sure did have a great workout and got a lot done. ice pack and relaxing is a good thing.