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My son graduated from his lineman school on Friday. Ironically that was the 1 year anniversary of his crash. He’s doing great. Now he just needs to find a job 😀

I’m no expert. I bait with cat food or mini marshmallows. I sprinkle a little cheap imitation vanilla on each. The bears seem to like the mini marshmallows. I’ve walked up on them licking out the marshmallows.

Put my traps out for the first time this spring. Got 2 👍

That’s for sure but we will be paying it all off when we sell our home and move up there in 2-3 years so I’m not too concerned about it.

We bought our place in 2014 for $116,000. Our balloon loan was coming to an end so we are refinancing right now which included a new appraisal being done. This is in the northern Wisconsin forest zone and is not considered a deer hunting Mecca. We have an older 800 sq ft 2 bedroom house...

This will work the best and is most cost effective. I built this same type of road to cross swamp/standing water to get to the back of my property. I also had to put in a culvert as well. I picked up bundles of slab/waste wood from a local saw mill for cheap and then buried it under dirt...

Just got done bottling syrup from yesterday. Ended up with just shy of 2 1/2 gallons.

I first tapped last weekend. Should have done so way sooner but just didn’t have time with other obligations. Hoping to do another boil next weekend, weather looks like it should flow this week. Just cracked my first beer for this cooking session 😀.

Great buck!! Even more special that it came from your land.

My last year with my homemade evaporator. Next season we will be stepping up to a Smokey Lake Dauntless with a blower. Either a flat pan or a divided pan. Haven’t decided yet.

Collected last night and this morning. Mostly still frozen blocks from the cold snap earlier in the week where we got below zero. It ran a bit overnight. Trees really varied in what they put out. Started cooking the sap this morning.

Tapped our trees today.

I don’t have much experience with birch trees but we did tap a few a couple years ago to try it out. Size for tapping should be similar to maples. Their sugar content is much lower. If I remember right the stuff I found said usually around 80/1. The birches we tapped didn’t flow much during...

Nope, you will be charged as wolves are listed as federally endangered. Nothing will change until the wolf and bear populations are brought under control. But the DNR has no interest in reducing either. Their new wolf plan doesn’t include a population cap and it takes over 10 years to get...

Swat broadheads. I love them.