Recent content by Foggy47

Thanks SD. Now I just need some root mass to hold it all in place. The worst event for me would be a 5" downpour of rain to wash all that sand away. I think it is somewhat stable.....and they did pack it well.....but it is just sand. Gotta get something to bind it all together...

Big day for me tomorrow. Rented a hydraulic dump trailer to get some organic material on my new "road" across the swamp. Seems very stable now. Drove my UTV and my tractor on it....and nothing moves. Tomorrow I get some organic matter distributed across the road which is about 12 feet...

I had a couple of blinds with trap door entry. Never again. Maybe if your young and price is very important. Not for me.

I think this country has learned allot about doing mining in an "environmental friendly" way over time. I beleive we can and should do both the mining and the preservation of much of these area. Still.....to refuse to allow folks to not use the resources that have been given to us is...

One of the biggest deer I ever saw was in Beltrami forest. A monster rack. Never got a shot at him....just saw him in hunting season from the truck. We had pretty good hunting in that area back in the late 70's and early 80's. Not many deer there now....from what I hear. Lots of legal...

Does a Subaru qualify as a beater car? I always thought they were "Butch-mobiles"....but not quite a beater. (LMAO - I remember Batman calling your car a "butched-up" unit. lol) Have not seen Batman around here for a long time.

A lake lot (none available without a home) would go for $1,000,000. + on Gull lake here. Maybe much more. Seeing hunting land in the $5000 area, plus more for improvements or decent road, etc. But you go 40 miles west and the prices would top out at about $2000 for hunting land. The old...

Not planning on either. Land prices are just fun to talk about. Tho I do consider buying a 40 and flipping it every now and again. Seems it always feels too expensive when your pricing land.....but it always seems to go higher over time. I remember times that I could have bought huge...

I think we need to keep a pulse on deer property prices. What has land sold for near you? When I bought my property....the fair market value in this area was about $2000 / acre. That was 18 years ago. Today the same type of land would sell for $5000 / acre.....and not near as much is...

Mutual funds are going to be a bit different than owning individual issues of stocks. Owning mutual funds....will have you paying taxes on the grains (or the ability to take a loss) each year. You do not have the ability to "get out" of paying capital gains each year....as the fund will do...

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Grin.

I had a number of 150 year old Burr Oaks in my yard at the lake. Those trees had withstood lots of heavy duty storms and still put out lots of acorns. They were getting pretty beat up and gnarly the last few years......especially after two tornadoes came through. We lost some 150 year...

I had my property logged off eight years ago. It was mostly Norway pines, with some mature aspen. The loggers released 1000's of small Burr Oak trees that were stunted by the pines. Some as small as a few feet high. They have all grown to an extent and appear quite healthy today. They...