Recent content by cbw

Congratulations! Delayed gratification pays. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Attempting to catch a bobcat in a couple bucket sets. So far, three possum and this nice smelly thing. 🙂 So, gonna try using it as bait for some coyotes snares. Don’t know if it will attract them or not. Anyone else found a use for skunk? :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

100% agree. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great writeup! Tough season with the deer numbers. Any thought to why? I know in our area a few hours north, EHD has definely been a factor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ditto. It’s fresh seed. TMax, when Rob mentioned spraying simizine/atrazine, did he give any wait time with it being residual? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just confirming the impressive growth of RC big rock in the first year. I first planted it two years ago on a spot that we had just leveled. So it was basically bare dirt. I hit it with gly just to get any straggler weeds and then drilled in June. By August, it was 4 feet tall. I was amazed. And...

161 days. In a full canopy timber. That’s how long my cameras ran without any batteries in them this year. Cuddeback’s latest solar panels are amazing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I use EQIP when it fits our goals. Figure just as well get some of my taxes back. Def challenging to have a few more hoops to jump thru, but they have worked well with us when we’ve needed contract extensions. I just explain that we don’t do any work in the timber between Sept 1 thru Jan 10...

Grew up on a farm during the farm crisis of the ‘80s. One winter, we cut and sold firewood. I would help my dad cut and split wood by hand with a “monster maul.” Oak, hickory, walnut, elm. Elm was the worst for splitting for how stringy it was. We would load 3 cord into our farm grain truck and...

Agree with what all have said about HELOCs. We have several against our rentals. It’s a convenient way to access equity as cash. You may pay a bit more in interest—the price to pay for the flexibility. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I was thinking about this original question earlier this month… We have two farms that share a fence. Two different renters. We paid to leave some beans standing in both farms in spots that had great deer bedding close. One farm, the deer hammered the beans. The other farm, they have barely...

First yote!

Iowa deer season ended yesterday for our area. Had a buddy out and showed me how to set snares for coyotes. While I grew up trapping muskrat, coon, mink, I’ve never done dry-land sets. Also made a set for bobcat—tho I need to get the bucket notched. Well see how they go.

Pleased with how the new number plot is looking… this cam is facing the direction of my tree stand. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Our experience is nearly the same. We used our SxS so much my father picked up a second one several years ago. One was in the shop for several weeks this summer, and was surprised how much we missed it. It is def the most used equipment on our farm for all the reasons mentioned. Sent from my...