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    brainstoming a tall and slender tower blind design

    I thought of a new design for a blind and thought I'd solicit your input. about a year ago I built a small hexagon shaped blind (link). I'm thinking about making another with a similar footprint: so a hexagon, 2' sides, 4' corner to corner. But this one would around 18 or 20 feet tall. I'm...
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    Off-grid solar power

    The last couple months I've been working on adding solar power to the metal building we put up earlier this yera. I'm not done yet, but I'm getting close. I wanted the panels to also shade the entry to the building. But I didn't want to risk bumping the posts with the tractor, so I poured...
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    are roundup-ready & clearfield seeds available for pennies/lb without restriction?

    I've been thinking about this for a while, but haven't found any discussion on the topic. I can understand why getting roundup-ready or clearfield seed would be appealing for food plots. As you're trying to establish a food plot and keep having volunteer plants come up blanket spraying of...
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    automated solar powered irrigation

    I've been working on this for a last couple months and it seems to be working well now. We planted 50 pines and I don't want to spend the summer hauling water to them. Since there is surface water available nearby, I decided to automate it. I went with a slow flow rate because a higher flow...
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    winter damaged apple tree looked dead, but sprouting again from down low

    One of the apple trees we planted last year was damaged from the cold over the winter. The bark split and started peeling, and everything a foot or so above ground on up seems to be dead. But the lower part of the trunk is sprouting. The sprouts are coming from above the graft, so they're...
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    Using high def security cameras and NVRs as trail cams

    Is anyone else using security cameras and NVRs (network video recorder) as trail cameras? If so I'd be curious to hear what you're using, what has worked well for you, and what hasn't. I'm just getting started, but here's what I've got so far Power: I have 400 watts of solar panels, a charge...
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    using up the leftovers: towable tiny 360 degree deer blind

    I had leftover scraps of metal after building my 8x8x16 blind, so found a way to use up almost all of the scraps. I went with hexagon because its closer to a circle than a square, and requires less angles than an octagon. The lower portion is 3', then its open for a foot, then about another 1.5...
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    Home made water tote trailer

    I've been using a tote I toss on a 5x8 trailer, and it slides around sometimes. That trailer also has small tires and I've sunk it to the axles in soft dirt when filling a tote. I was wanting something that was always ready to use when I need to water trees, and set up a bit better for the...
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    coyotes pass by 6 minutes after newborn fawn

    It won't let me upload video, but here's a couple pictures. At 3:32 AM a fawn walks by, following mom. At 3:38 AM a couple coyotes come by. The video shows it better, but the coyotes seem to be heading off in the wrong direction to find the fawn.
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    building an 8x8x16 deer blind

    Today I started building a deer blind. It will be 8x8 and 16 feet tall. Lower level storage, upper level deer blind. I'm planning on 4x6 posts with cable x's for stability. Steel panels for the walls and roof. Today I set 4 concrete piers for the posts. Here's a tape measure 16' in the...
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    diy cultipacker

    I threw together a cultipacker using mostly scraps and junk. The only things I purchased for this was 5 60# bags of concrete and the hitch. Its 10" culvert with 2" pvc through the middle to make a hole for an axle. I put some rebar in the concrete so hopefully it won't break as it bounces...
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    protecting apple trees

    In the last couple days I've planted a lot of bare root seedling trees and bushes. For most of them, we on put weed mat, rabbit mesh, and 47" tall field fence cages. On a tiny seedling I can see that the cage keeps the deer from touching it, and will limit their access for years to come. We...
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    Optimizing effort and survival rate for 1300 feet of willow cuttings

    I've got a contract to buy around 70 acres of land in south central Kansas, with one side bordering the interstate highway. In a few months I want to use corkscrew willow trees to quickly create a screen to the interstate. Its about a 50 minute drive from home, so I can go there frequently...
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