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  1. Chainsaw

    Loss of a legend

    Dear friends of chainsaw. I can’t tell you how it fills my heart to hear the wonderful comments you have about my husband. Every day is a struggle for me because he is gone. He had such a passion for deer and habitat and daylilies. He loved this forum and talking and listening to all of you. We...
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    Land for sale

    It’s time to sell some land. I’m listing 74 acres of my 605 acres In Ellisburg,New York. Bordered by 2 streets, Woodpecker and Torrey Hill. Tax accessor has it divided as 10 acres pasture, 20 acres tillable, 34 acres wasteland and 11 acres woodland. This is zoned AG. Pasture and tillable is...
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    Apples,apples and more apples

    One thing that is highly important for rodent deterrent is the need for rocks around the hardware cloth that is at the base of the newly transferred trees. This is essential.
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    Girdle protection

    This is what we are doing right now to protect our trees that we are transplanting from our nursery. First we plant the tree, then add a 6’ x 6’ ground cloth stapled with 8” staples in each corner and side around tree for weed control. Then a piece of hardware cloth 18” tall is wrapped loosely...
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    Maple syrup

    My posts probably don’t make any sense but boy I am just loving maple syrup every single day right now all it is so good.
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    Apples,apples and more apples

    Adding new trees is always fun but it has most importantly it is making more of the right trees with trees being the ones that we want to feed the deer the most during the period that we want the deer to be safer on our property. We want to give us the largest amount of deer during the peak...
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    Stratification done, now what?

    Massively eats hickory nuts in our area is a major food source that is in the Northern Lake Ontario area
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    Apples,apples and more apples

    We were able to pick up a great slower new sticks to get that tree we going again in May take two years in total before you can get enough going forward again but it would be a great great trade at all develop a lot of late Apple trees for probably next year.
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    Apples,apples and more apples

    Thank you everybody. The cancer thing does its own thing and for now we don’t know it’s been a long long process and hopefully it goes on and on but not the trees will grow on as much as possible. My attention for the next For the get the apples ready for plantings. The doctors look at me as...
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    Apples,apples and more apples

    Brandon know this was a not a turning point tree it’s just one of the newer trees that we have found or given to us from our friends. I will private you a message when I get to work to talk about turning point. .For now I am spending my day prepping getting ready to cutting mats
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    Apples,apples and more apples

    We are expanding our lake Apple trees as possible as we physically can to our property. I am adding as many as possible as I can get done through my days on some days lots of work it’s done and some days just work just can’t get done but we’re gaining on it I get lots of help from friends and...
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    Grafting ?

    I have had good experiences with apples and pears and I have had bad experiences with apples and pears sometimes everything went perfect and sometimes it doesn’t doesn’t get so perfect just keep on swinging test test and test and test it isn’t that easy but it isn’t that hard either. I wish I...
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    How many fruit trees to plant?

    Apple trees ready for transplant this spring.
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    How many fruit trees to plant?

    The property started with about 3000 wild apple trees summer early summer late but most most fall down by mid late November there are some that go through all winter our goal is to have more and more and more and more winter ones two years ago we added around 150 late Apple trees last year and...
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    Weather

    Correct there’s very very little snow right this minute it’s probably pushing 8 inches there are traveling easily but the ground is gonna be hard spent the last couple of days searching for apple trees still holding it was great to be able to walk without snow shoes.
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    Weather

    Yeah outside the temperature this yesterday morning was about 10° minus but the inside temperature by about 10 AM was 100 Plus degrees in the sunroom which we use for our dining living areas for the winter we have to keep the doors open to keep the temperatures not so warm even though outside...
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    Most productive apple verities

    Turning point keeps giving out apples normally all winter this year it seems to be dropping out early I guess temperature changes or suction plus we had a couple of real real winds that blow down a lot a lot of apples in January
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    Most productive apple verities

    Turning point picture taken today January 25 sixth seventh fifth whatever deer are a single deer eating at all the last few TurningPoint apples of the year
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