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Post by badgerfowl on Jan 5, 2020 13:52:10 GMT -6
Anyone got any new things they wanna do or try in 2020? I've got a few in the hopper so far. Got a weekend or two of spring chainsaw work on the wishlist yet. If I could just get ten more hours in, I'd hit my goal for flattened acres for the year. The clear cut behind me is only 7 acres (swamp adds to that total as well, so maybe 10) and has been a big part of holding deer just off my place. That isn't gonna be great forever, so I wanna keep on the saw on my place so the next slumberland is ready to go. Also going to try to remember to make an ROD super cage up in the yard somewhere. Plan is to make one big cage (like 5' diameter), cover the ground in black fabric, and punch a few hundred ROD cuttings into it. Then I'd take my leftover unused bucket sawdust and put down enough to keep the sun from contacting that black and cooking my cuttings. If the concept proves successful, I'd strategically place these around the property to serve as a protected seed producer and let the birds haul it around from there. 5 or 6 well placed would be cool to have. Where I've been opening the canopy, I wanna whip up a blend of cover/pollinator species while hopefully not producing desirable food, or that it won't be desirable come hunting season. What's on the list right now is a blend of flax, white sweetclover, and yellow sweetclover. I'd like to see that sweet clover get to 5-6' and fill up with flowers during the summer, and then stand for cover through the fall. Those seeds are all affordable, and don't require big pounds/ac to get coverage. Your cuttings won’t cook in black plastic or lumite type fabric. I’ve never covered black plastic or lumite. Never had a problem. Clear plastic would create problems.
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Post by leexrayshady on Jan 5, 2020 14:36:14 GMT -6
Im going to try fill and kill on some of the trees blocking sunlight and adding leafs to my inwoods food plot In the HP? no in our mixed hardwoods
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Post by nhmountains on Jan 5, 2020 16:12:58 GMT -6
Im going to try fill and kill on some of the trees blocking sunlight and adding leafs to my inwoods food plot I’ve always thought that plot could use a little more light. Will you try and drop those trees or just girdle?
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Post by smsmith on Jan 5, 2020 17:05:30 GMT -6
Sweet clover grows very well on heavier soils. I had wild sweet clover (both white and yellow) growing at the old place on some heavy(ish) clay loam/glacial till. In a good year it would be 6'+ tall. In a bad year it was over 4'.
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Post by MN Slick on Jan 6, 2020 8:11:42 GMT -6
Do a bit of hinging but mostly hack/squirt to enhance a couple bedding areas.
Plant 7 fruit trees which I said I was done doing.
Coverting mock scrapes in food plots from "planting" trees every other year to just adding limbs by putting permanent post in the plots. I dropped and limbed 5 hedge and cedar trees a couple weeks ago that are ready to go.
Add a row of Don Higgins's magic Miscanthus Giganteous to our screen where we are currently skylined because the screen is too thin. He claims his is bushier....probably bullshit but the same price I've been paying so worth a try.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jan 6, 2020 9:02:24 GMT -6
More water tubs scattered around my properties.
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Post by Foggy on Jan 6, 2020 9:07:29 GMT -6
I'm considering getting a fertilizer buggy (3 tons) to provide the needed lime and nutrients (NPKS) in order to grow corn on my property. I may do strips of corn and soybeans over about a 3 or 4 acre area(s). I need a late season draw.....and hope the corn would do the trick.
Gonna talk to MO and get some feedback.
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Post by daydreamer on Jan 6, 2020 9:34:37 GMT -6
I'm considering getting a fertilizer buggy (3 tons) to provide the needed lime and nutrients (NPKS) in order to grow corn on my property. I may do strips of corn and soybeans over about a 3 or 4 acre area(s). I need a late season draw.....and hope the corn would do the trick. Gonna talk to MO and get some feedback. A late season draw for who? You'll be sunning yourself in Sunny AZ?!!?!?!?!?!
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Post by Foggy on Jan 6, 2020 21:02:41 GMT -6
I'm considering getting a fertilizer buggy (3 tons) to provide the needed lime and nutrients (NPKS) in order to grow corn on my property. I may do strips of corn and soybeans over about a 3 or 4 acre area(s). I need a late season draw.....and hope the corn would do the trick. Gonna talk to MO and get some feedback. A late season draw for who? You'll be sunning yourself in Sunny AZ?!!?!?!?!?! You got a point here. The deer property in MN is becoming less appealing (to me) as time goes by. Now, I really do much of this for my family and I suppose somewhat for Mother Nature in general. I don't care so much about deer hunting these days.....but I am not bashful to want to take a good buck either. It's still in my DNA.....but it's not a huge driving force for me. If I did not own this property......I don't suppose I would buy it again. I'd rather spend the dough on travel or other hunts for old codgers? . Times are a-changing for me. Still.....I do enjoy seeing my family have a good hunt and enjoy many attributes of having this land. Sometimes I think I enjoy the 'chinery and how it bolts together and operates.(etc) more than the crops and such. Same can be said for our home on the lake. If I didnt alraady own it.....I would not try to replace it. I suppose I am somewhat "spoiled". I talk with other guys that hunt the mountains here and in NM. They are having a ball hunting this country.......and I think my time would be better spent on this. Still.....my family likes our MN experience.....and they LIVE back there. Deer hunting has become our Thanksgiving. It's a special time for all of us. FORE!
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Post by batman on Jan 7, 2020 6:51:10 GMT -6
Be a good one to add the the slogans list. 'No matter how good looking she is somebody got tired of fucking her.'
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Post by badbrad on Jan 7, 2020 8:04:41 GMT -6
I'm considering getting a fertilizer buggy (3 tons) to provide the needed lime and nutrients (NPKS) in order to grow corn on my property. I may do strips of corn and soybeans over about a 3 or 4 acre area(s). I need a late season draw.....and hope the corn would do the trick. Gonna talk to MO and get some feedback. WTF do you need a late season draw for? You are in Zona by Halloween because it got a little cold.
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Post by smsmith on Jan 7, 2020 8:21:54 GMT -6
A late season draw for who? You'll be sunning yourself in Sunny AZ?!!?!?!?!?! You got a point here. The deer property in MN is becoming less appealing (to me) as time goes by. Now, I really do much of this for my family and I suppose somewhat for Mother Nature in general. I don't care so much about deer hunting these days.....but I am not bashful to want to take a good buck either. It's still in my DNA.....but it's not a huge driving force for me. If I did not own this property......I don't suppose I would buy it again. I'd rather spend the dough on travel or other hunts for old codgers? . Times are a-changing for me. Still.....I do enjoy seeing my family have a good hunt and enjoy many attributes of having this land. Sometimes I think I enjoy the 'chinery and how it bolts together and operates.(etc) more than the crops and such. Same can be said for our home on the lake. If I didnt alraady own it.....I would not try to replace it. I suppose I am somewhat "spoiled". I talk with other guys that hunt the mountains here and in NM. They are having a ball hunting this country.......and I think my time would be better spent on this. Still.....my family likes our MN experience.....and they LIVE back there. Deer hunting has become our Thanksgiving. It's a special time for all of us. FORE! Will one of the next generation take over and do all the work when you can't/won't?
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Post by Foggy on Jan 7, 2020 9:30:35 GMT -6
You got a point here. The deer property in MN is becoming less appealing (to me) as time goes by. Now, I really do much of this for my family and I suppose somewhat for Mother Nature in general. I don't care so much about deer hunting these days.....but I am not bashful to want to take a good buck either. It's still in my DNA.....but it's not a huge driving force for me. If I did not own this property......I don't suppose I would buy it again. I'd rather spend the dough on travel or other hunts for old codgers? . Times are a-changing for me. Still.....I do enjoy seeing my family have a good hunt and enjoy many attributes of having this land. Sometimes I think I enjoy the 'chinery and how it bolts together and operates.(etc) more than the crops and such. Same can be said for our home on the lake. If I didnt alraady own it.....I would not try to replace it. I suppose I am somewhat "spoiled". I talk with other guys that hunt the mountains here and in NM. They are having a ball hunting this country.......and I think my time would be better spent on this. Still.....my family likes our MN experience.....and they LIVE back there. Deer hunting has become our Thanksgiving. It's a special time for all of us. FORE! Will one of the next generation take over and do all the work when you can't/won't? My son-in-law likes to do many of these things. Also my grandsons like this land and will get somewhat involved. Still, it's hard to dedicate much time to it when you live several hours away and are involved in other stuff. The good thing is there is not as much to do these days as compared to the past. A couple of days of spring planting......and some mowing....and a few days killing weeds.....will keep this up pretty well. Of course....then there are prepping stands.....cleaning the sheds......fixing crap......lol. .
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Post by Sandbur on Jan 7, 2020 12:36:27 GMT -6
Will one of the next generation take over and do all the work when you can't/won't? My son-in-law likes to do many of these things. Also my grandsons like this land and will get somewhat involved. Still, it's hard to dedicate much time to it when you live several hours away and are involved in other stuff. The good thing is there is not as much to do these days as compared to the past. A couple of days of spring planting......and some mowing....and a few days killing weeds.....will keep this up pretty well. Of course....then there are prepping stands.....cleaning the sheds......fixing crap......lol. . You or they can still hunt and all of those things don’t need to be done.
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Post by leexrayshady on Jan 7, 2020 19:03:35 GMT -6
Im going to try fill and kill on some of the trees blocking sunlight and adding leafs to my inwoods food plot I’ve always thought that plot could use a little more light. Will you try and drop those trees or just girdle? Just fill and Kill and will leave them stand, most are to big for my chainsaw skills.
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