May 28, 2012

Cleaned at Cheval blanc Whitehorse rapids park , on the riverfront RDP-180. The RSMA report is working again! regarding my May 25 post of complaint.

May 25, 2012

I just noticed that the powers that be (P.T.B.) have deleted last years water quality tables on RDP. That sucks.

Picked up some garbage at RDP 200. Note for Cheval Blanc Whitehorse rapids WOODs area, the mosquitoes are back and you need repellant.

When I was picking up garbage plastic lids to water bottles this morning, I realized we humans are not going to stop making these bottle tops until we see a problem. My cleaning is near pointless when we produce how many thousands a day?
 Whats wrong you ask? Fish who are hungry like any animal is, think it is food and eats it. The plastic then gets stuck in their intestine. Then don't swim so well or fast afterwards and then a bird eats them. Then the bird dies from the plastic in their intestine. If they can reproduce faster than they die , it is no problem, but I think they are dying before they reproduce.

Plastic companies are not going to stop selling the plastic.

People who need-want to pay the lowest price have to buy it.

The Government has to ban disposable plastic, plastic bags. Toronto did this. I hope the law stays, and people get used to living without disposable plastic.

 They were talking of fixing as in unblocking rivers in the USA on PBS TV, but I was concerned with the genetic diversity of the four source breeding fish. They are going to be inbred with genetic faults and susceptibilities to disease?

 anyways. Good news. I saw on CBC TV news another breeding program for trees that are resistant to disease. Disease-resistant elms aim of Canadian research Cloning technique offers hope for cities battling Dutch elm disease

May 20, 2012

This tire is bigger than my bike! One of the three tires I found in the bog of Cheval blanc- Whitehorse woods

Took it out.

The three tires waiting at the garbage bin.

May 19, 2012

In Cheval Blanc Whitehorse rapids woods, on the southern east west trail, past the dumped roofing tiles.

Two tires, one circled in red.

Took out one tire.

Found a bunch of garbage under the train bridge at whitehorse. Bagged most of it.

Took the garbage out.

May 18, 2012

Whitehorse-Cheval Blanc Rapids Area. Took out a bit of the cement with rebar out. I tossed cement without rebar into the woods- they are rocks right? When is something garbage and is not garbage? When you can't see it or smell it , it is not garbage. No one sees the cement so it isn't garbage. I guess for the average human traveler of the woods, a piece of cement on the ground looks like a rock so it is a success.

May 17, 2012

I went to Cap St Jacques this morning and filled a medium size bag with garbage from the shoreline. I am out of habit and forgot to take a photo of the full bag. I took a photo of a "red admiral " butterfly instead during my cleaning job.           They reported on the news this morning this is a record year for butterfly's.
Canada's butterfly migration is largest on record

May 14, 2012

I went to the rusted engine in the bog/swamp again this morning. The pistons are seized from BOTH sides, the up and down. I was thinking it was just the visible topside that was rusted. I tried the sledgehammer with a piece of steel in the cylinder to smash it down and out, but the pistons don't budge a bit.So the crankshaft is stuck as it is rusted to the connecting rods that go to the pistons. I collected all the metal bits I took off and smashed off and threw them out. I am/was surprised by the amount of cast iron in the engine and how fast the cast iron rusts once exposed to the air.
I am going to have to move the engine as it is now.

Maybe I will try one more time, but I have to set the engine up in a better position to hit the pistons. It should come out, shouldn't it?

May 11, 2012

The Blogger interface is from HELL. As usual it puts the last photo I upload as first instead of last. The opposite of what I want.
Anyways I showed up today to take out the bolts holding the engine crankshaft on. When I first arrived I thought "This is not going to work. Look how rusted they are!" I tried one half heartedly and gave up. Then I picked a random bolt and said to myself lets give this my best try. IT WORKED! I got one bolt off! Once I got one bolt off I knew I could get others off. I was happy removing and taking photos. I finally finished removing all the bolts. The crankshaft is still stuck. It might come free if I hit it with the sledgehammer , so I have to bring it back again. I took off another pound off the weight of the engine I guess, as I took off 4 of the 5 half circles the bolts were holding on.

 My secondary mission was successful as well. I moved the three used car-truck tires out of the bog-swamp closer to the trail for future pick-up. I disturbed the two ducks hanging out, but that's life.
 I also found some leftover metal scrap that ants were using as shelter. Sorry ants the garbage has to go.

On the pathway one of the rocks that cross the trickle of a stream in the bog needed fixing . It was loose, I nearly fell in when I stood on it, so I put a smaller rock under one side. A while later a young man on a bike crossed using the rocks. If I had not fixed that rock would he have fallen in? What would happen then in that stream of time? When you do a proper job nobody notices, is the old joke.

10 bolts removed and 3 of the 5 metal half circles off.

First bolt removed!

First bolt removed viewed up close

May 08, 2012

Bad news. I found three more tires in the bog-swamp area. I wonder how they got there?
I took the sledgehammer to the engine block and tried smashing it after I discovered it was made out of cast iron.
It shattered a bit, but not significantly. I took off maybe ten pounds of weight.
There are some ducks hanging out, but the bog is drying up.Predators can get them and their eggs if the have any.
A woodpecker of some kind showed up after my attempt to smash the engine block. I took four photos but none came out. They are tough to photograph.

whats left to smash

bringing rebar to bin

rebar at the bin

At Cheval Blanc woods, I took out a garbage bag with bottles and garbage I had put in it, but I forgot to take a photo before putting it in the bin here. My second trip back into the park was to get the rebar-cement combo. There was 4 leftover pieces you can see in the photo. So the sewage drain removal is officially half finished. I need to bring the sledgehammer again and smash whats left.
It has been raining, so I haven't taken any photos. From the big cement smash in the past, I went back and cut the internal rebar with my bolt cutters. Now the pieces of cement are manageable-small enough for a human to handle. I hope to throw out a few pieces a week over the summer. Eventually it will be gone. If you don't give up the fight, you don't lose!