Recent content by rocksnstumps

Yep sunlight is key for oak and crabapple survival. For maples and hemlocks, not so much

Hard to tell from pic but hope your timber harvest was fairly aggressive where you planted the oaks. I found after planting a bunch of crabapples and a few oaks in "openings" after a harvest that the remaining trees could generate canopy faster than new trees could grow tall. Within 5-7 yrs it...

In regards to the number of bees. Went to a customer a number of years ago that used a lot of honey in products and the owner had made a small museum area about bees. Never realized that so much diversity and that WI has about 400 different bee species. Sure that it is the same in Ohio. Of...

Have a few Franklin cider still with some mummy fruit and breaking bud also. Never really noticed fruit still on the Franklins all winter but was mild and maybe that changed things a bit. Trees are also getting bigger with more fruit to start with. Mild winters tend to have more mummy fruit left...

I think in farm country strut sites are not too far from roost sites. With mixed patches of woods and fields all over they don't really have a go to a "favorite" spot day after day. Can't speak to big woods setting. Roost sites by me have changed with disease, wind, logging. When I hear them...

Going to lose some production for a number of years but if that was my tree would top prune all those branches arched over. Tree will send up a number of new sprouts more vertical and can remove competing ones later but in the mean time without all that offset weight the roots should stabilize...

I have talked myself out of planting hybrids for one reason. Bears. Need some decent growth before I want to see acorns or limbs are ripped off and tops busted. The faster growing burrs got pummeled. The slowest growing whites got limbs shredded but basic structure of a big tree intact. If no...

Not surprised that no names and trusts and whatnot claim these prizes. Folks just do not want to be hounded by others begging for money since now they figure you have too much. Mom has a friend who won a "small" one for $10 million (probably worth $20 million in Biden dollars these days). They...

They claim hackberry is good to zone 3. Have never seen in northern WI, only hear about in southern part of state. My land is 4b and planted a few many years ago. They died fairly quickly while the oaks and crabapples planted same time did ok. Again anecdotal, but I don't put much confidence in...

^^^^ check for how moist they are and sprinkle a little water in bundle if dry. Stuff them in a dark corner in your garage for a couple weeks if needed and they will be fine. Had an order from Gurney's last yr they sent me like March 3rd and I'm in NE WI! We had 4 significant snow events in...

I have a couple of the older style plastic cans I use to fill my diesel tractor and my buddy always wants to use mine as he has the newer ones he hates. I keep my rig in my buddy's pole barn in the summer as about a mile from my land. I watch out for the old ones at auctions/estate sales but...

Getting electrical gear was a big pain on last project before I retired. Most of the big players are not based in U.S. but have absorbed some of the well known American brands in the recent past. I.e. Square D is now Schneider Electric (France) Taking a look over last 5 yrs, some have done...

Farmer sounds like a shrewd fella. Probably figures he can get a bit more from a neighbor that would overlook the well pad aspect or at least not discount as much so can can add to their property vs. having the well pull down future pricing on the whole chunk he owns. So give him a lower offer...

Just run copper tubing and be done with it for a couple generations. The propane lights at duck hunting shack were plumbed with copper in the 1950s when moved down river over the ice. They still work although one probably needs some gunk blown out of the line. But lines don't leak and not...

Always used 3/8 copper tubing with brass flared fittings on hunting and ice fishing shacks. Think it was type L but anyway bends and flares a bit easier than the really thick wall stuff. For burying underground they use the thicker wall stuff. My 1000 gal propane tank at home was installed...