Bob's Eyes

Wednesday December 18, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Forest road work

I drove on up to where  my equipment was parked and warmed up Skiddy for work.

With all the recent rains, I haven’t been able to get all the rock on the forest road that I needed. I planned to haul rock to the wetter spots on the road today.

I got rock here, one bucket at at time and hauled it down the road, about a quarter  mile or so, to where it was needed.

Muddy spot

This spot was getting real muddy as there was water coming out of the hill and running down the road.

Water is coming out of the hill here and running down the road. I installed a drain ditch across the road, so the road should dry up soon.

Around four, the fuel gauge was reading low, so I quit for the day and fueled up Skiddy with diesel.

Fuel pump

My electric fuel pump makes fueling up pretty easy.

It was getting dark as I drove on home, so used my headlights.

Nice day.

Tuesday December 17, 2024 Guerneville CA.

I rode on up to where my equipment was parked today.

I needed to put the charged battery in the bulldozer and figure out why it won’t start.

I put the battery in and tried the starter. It turned over, but barely and not enough to start it up.

Greased

I needed to get to the starter but I didn’t think I had the right wrench, so I switched over to Skiddy who needed to be greased.

I greased all the grease fittings.

Aha, a wrench

Then I remembered I had an adjustable wrench in Hondo’s glove box, so I took this part off to get to the starter.

I got the rest of my tools out to check this stuff out.

I took the battery cables off the starter and cleaned them up and put them back on. Still no go on that either.

OK, it’s either the starter motor or the starter solenoid. I needed more tools for that, so that’s as far as I got on that one.

I thought of moving some more rock down onto the road I’ve been working on, but it was still a bit wet from the rain, so I’ll do that tomorrow.

Rock slide

I checked the rock slide when I went by and it was ok.

Going for a ride

I decided to take a drive up to where the park trail guys have been working. I spotted some wild turkeys on the way up.

The road takes you on up to the higher hill tops.

The view from up there, looking west towards the ocean.

I found the spot where the park guys had been working but no one was there today.‘

I headed back down the hill and on home for a nap.

Nice day.