Recent content by ethompson

My chocolate lab has to be within my eye sight or whistling distance. He was taught that at a young age. Plus he knows not to cross fence lines to our neighbors. I've probably slapped his ass 10 times in six years. Those just to get his attention. Last Sat. morning I was catching up on some...

my tree order from burnt ridge nursery got cancelled for the second year in a row.

I needed 100 so the cheapest way to get them were by buying 1000. Haven't received them yet, but anybody want some loblolly pine seedlings? Description of what I ordered. From N.Carolina forestry dept. Loblolly pine, 3rd cycle piedmont bare root premium family select-treated D & P. They...

thanks for all the remarks guys, but santa brought me a stihl 261 c-m with 20 inch blade. It is awesome.

Its time for a new chainsaw. Currently I have a ms 250. Its has been an outstanding saw. Im going to keep it just use it on smaller jobs. What Im looking for is a saw with longer bar 20"+ and more power. I have roughly 6 large oaks that are going to need to be fallen and cut up. Im not...

x2 caterpillars. Every October I have to keep my eyes open for them. Only tree that got hit this year was a sawtooth in the front yard. Won't kill the tree. Just defoliate it. Should bounce back next year.

I blamed my nephew and friend when they were kids because I found an oak tree with similar marking on a broken branch. But believe it or not it was the wind. I've have since noticed hundreds of branches missing from smaller trees with the same kind of markings.

This was hard to put into words for me. Here it goes I want to add some vitamins and or minerals every time I water my trees. I ran water lines to where I have trees. I want to hook up something directly to the spigots to where it siphons from the vitamin or mineral source to the water...

I have a swampchestnutt oak all by its lonesome. Its been that way since we planted. What I mean is there is no other SCO near this tree. Trust me I've looked. Although there are 1000's of other oaks nearby. (only red oaks and saw tooth.) After thought" property has several dozen post oaks...

We have a large one 20yrs down here in Texas. Beautiful tree. No problem with dropping branches but its probably not at the age yet. One negative thing. We really have to slow down mowing because of the roots. They are everywhere above the surface. They will throw your back out on a riding...

Yes. That is the name of the farm in Florida. Hopefully my trees will be that size soon. Man thats beautiful.

I ordered around 30 seedlings that I was going to split with a buddy, but I received around 60. So ended up planting 30 this past winter. The place I ordered from slips my mind right now, but it was from a tree farm in Florida. Great customer service. Not big on internet but great on the...

Been a while since I've posted anything on this site. But something unexpected happened that I would like to share. I ordered chinese chestnuts seeds from route 9 and received them in early November. I was able to plant them in groups of 3 on Nov 14. At the time I thought I had planted them...

i Was thinking about doing the same thing and every time I asked someone with experience in this field, I got so confused. Eventually I got 2 big tanks put on trailer filled with pond water using generator and pump. Then drive it to plot. Using a plastic 2” water nozzle I can spray maybe 50’...

This was 2 weeks before I discovered the hornets. Perfect day for a control burn. The burn went extremely well. The last pic is back at camp looking to where I burnt. This was about an hour afterward in the evening close to darkness, but you can’t tell from picture. Enjoy @