Recent content by bossgobbler

This is excellent. What a fun class that must be! Well done to you and your students. Beautiful structures you’ve built. I take down and preserve antique hand hewn timber frame barns and hand hewn log cabins from the 1800s. Some we sell and others I’ve kept. The skill and workmanship is...

Thank you for all the input. I will drill on the next day I have time.

Good morning. Quick question about drilling a foodplot into very dry ground with little to rain in the forecast. My schedule is very tight. I am borrowing a neighbor’s drill. I’ve got the seed ready and the plots are ready. The main issue is that there is no rain in the forecast and the ground...

In southern Ohio I see many Cooper’s hawks move in during the late spring months and stay through the summer. We have good poult hatch numbers when the cold rains don’t claim them but then the hawks move in and take care of many of them. Two years ago we had 42 poults hatch and only 7 made it to...

We have 50 acres. Of that 50 acres 20-25 of it is sanctuary. I do a lot to keep deer here and feeling comfortable but I believe the most important part of what I do is keeping 20-25 acres pure sanctuary. The way it lays it already sets up for a great bedding area but staying completely out of it...

Howdy everyone! I am set up and ready to use the no-till drill to plant some wheat, rye, and oats this week. For reference I am in southeast Ohio. I will be planting roughly 2 acres of a blend of wheat, rye, oats, turnips, radishes and clover. I’m renting the county no till drill for $100. I...

Thank you guys! This helps me get a good idea of the amount I should work with. I will be drilling the grains. The last several broadcasts I did were picked so clean and hardly had any germination. The turkeys are hard on any grains on top of the ground. Last fall I drilled it and it turned out...

There are a few reasons I need to plant it all at one time. One of the reasons is time. I just can’t make the time to make multiple planting times. I am renting our county soil and water no-till drill for $100. Renting it multiple times becomes costly. I would do a broadcast at a later date...

Good morning everyone! Pretty soon I will be planting a couple acres of food plots. I’ve decided I will for sure be planting it all at once. I am doing a mix of Winter Wheat, Winter Rye, Buck Forage Oats, turnips, maybe some radishes, and will seed a mix of clovers with it. I like...

Thanks for the replies. I’ll look at the suction tube when I get a chance. I clean the sprayer out after every use. I pull each piece apart and clean it well, let it dry, then put it back together. Hopefully it’s just a cracked tube. I might exchange it for another one of the same model. If that...

Thanks for the input. If it sprays the first 10 gallons just fine do you still think there’s a hole in the suction tube? Is the suction tube the part that angles toward the bottom of the sprayer tank? I feel like it could just be the design of the tank? Our ground is not very flat and smooth. It...

Good morning everyone! This site has been a tremendous help to me over the years. I read a lot of great information here. I don’t post much but I visit often and have found the information here to be valuable. Thank you for that! I currently have a 25 gallon boom less Fimco ATV sprayer. When...

Thanks for the tip! I am always thinking of fawns and turkey nests. If I mow it in May I’ll be sure to do so before it’s tall. Actually, as soon as its above 12” I’ll knock it down and then continually mow so that it doesn’t reach a height of fawns being able to hide in it. If that means mowing...

Your description of the situation is well stated and you present a picture of immediate superiority - I can't think of another word less sensitive. Sorry. I have no doubt about what you said, but I want to ask "why" at the end of most of your assertions only to better understand how it is you...

I plan to either rent the county no-till drill in combination with my tractor or pay my neighbor to use his large planter. I realize the beans aren’t likely to last. I’m guessing they’ll be browsed down fairly quickly. I like the thought of having standing beans in January and February but on...