The winds were supposed to be up at Jenner today, so I stayed home to do some spring type work.
There was some more rain coming in tonight and there was a very light mist coming down, but not enough to get me wet, yet.
Dead cherry tree
This cherry tree died a few years ago and I needed to cut it up, so I got the big saw out.
Saw won’t start with the switch off
But I didn’t put my glasses on and tried to start it with the on off switch off. Of course it wouldn’t start, so I put my glasses on and saw the switch was off, but by now the saw was flooded and wouldn’t start after many pulls and wearing myself out.
The best solution
I finally thought the best solution was to let it sit and rest and went over to my brother’s house and got his little chain saw and decided to work on finishing cutting up this olive tree.
Knocked down a metal post
I cut up the wood and fell another fork off the tree and cut it up too. In the process of felling the tree fork, I knocked over a metal post with a bird house on it, which I had to now fix, but later. I snapped the metal post off as in cracked it up.
Olive tree all cut up.
I got the other brush cut up too
I also cut up some more downed tree stuff in the back there from a tree that fell down last summer. It still had some larger limbs that needed cutting up so I could get rid of the rest of the brush, so I cut it up too.
And now the dead cherry tree is cut up
After a break I tried starting the big saw again and with the switch set right to run, it fired right up and I cut the cherry tree up into firewood type pieces. I attempted to cut the stump up too, but it was wet with water and was stopping the chain saw chain as there wasn’t enough lube oil on it and the saw was freezing up on the saw bar. I oiled up the chain bar once, but it didn’t last long so I decided to give nature some time to rot it out, or maybe I’ll cut it up this summer when it’s dried out a bit.
One more job
I needed to prune my Black Persian Mulberry tree a bit, so I moved the ladder over to it so I could get to the top where I wanted to cut the top branches down a bit. You can see the metal pipe I knocked over with the olive tree fork I sawed down a bit ago there on the right.
And I repaired the broken post
I trimmed the mulberry tree and put the metal pipe back up with a smaller pipe brace inside that pipe and put the bird house back up too.
The mist was now getting me wet
By now the light mist was picking up and getting me wet, so I quit for the day. I had intended to pick up some of the brush, but that didn’t happen.
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.
