I was figuring out how to make my new trailer forklift use-able. That meant I needed to build some brackets on top of the trailer for loading stuff with a forklift. I was working on a design, but that is dependent on what I have in scrap metal to build it. I’ve used up most of my good stuff for building stuff like this, so I was really scrounging around to find the stuff to do it.
Table
Tom came by and said in ten minutes we can have this new big welding table use-able. That meant we had to clear out a spot for it throwing stuff out of the way, making a bigger mess of stuff, but we got it.
I told Tom what I was doing for the trailer and I needed some more of the right metal to get it to work. He left on his rig and came back later with some metal to do the job.
Enough planning for now and I was out of the mood to start the construction part for now.
Culvert
I got some tools together to go up and try to straighten the end of an old culvert I’m giving to a neighbor.
This is the bent end which I will try to straighten up a bit with the wrenches, if I can.
I worked on it and got some of it better but I couldn’t get it all straight. I’m thinking I may need to use the Sawzall on it to cut the end off.
Tree trimming
From there I rode on up to the road I was working on for a neighbor. I needed to trim some trees back a bit as they were too close to the road.
I cut them down and made a big mess to cleanup.
All cleaned up and tired out.
Resting up
I rode up to our break spot at the top of the mountain. Before taking a break, I trimmed some trees out of the view first and now really needed a break.
After a good break, I rode on down the hill and parked here.
I got the chainsaw out and cut this leaner tree out of the way and had another big mess of brush to remove.
All cleaned up, brush removed.
Then I removed the brush out of this turn around spot and got rid of that.
Old spring
Then I drove on down the road and stopped to check out another spring. It needs a piece of pipe hooked up onto an old pipe that was there and not long enough, so I measured about how much pipe I would need.
From there I drove on home with intentions on working on the trailer parts, but instead, I went in for a nap and that was it for the day.
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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.
