Recent content by ChadHable

Nice work! My FIL and I built this one last spring. Same concept as you. Only difference is It's 4 ft wide, used a 20ft stick of angle iron and 2 wheel bearings. My total cost was about $150-$175. My 325 ATV pulls this just find, even in our sandy soil.

I planted some apple trees last year and now that those are still alive my wife's uncle wants help grafting the apple tree in the front yard at the family homestead. The tree is starting to show its age and I'm not sure how long it will survive due to damage from storms the past few years...

My father-in-law and I made a 4' pull behind ATV Cultipacker. During my research I found a posting on the Michigan Sportsman page. Material cost was under $200. We probably have about 20 total hours into the project. We used a double walled 10" culvert. It only comes in 20' rolls. Below...

Thank you! Do you happen to have a picture of how you use the poly chain?

Thank you! This planting was stage 1. My overall goal is make sure these trees survive. Stage 2 is to add trees to this location and expand to other locations on our 90 acres. There is only one nursery around where I live (I like face to face interaction rather than buying online) that has...

Thank you! I do plan to document how things turn out. If everything turns out well, I will probably be adding to the orchard next year. I already planted the seed with my wife that honey bees might be in our future as well. :) All of the trees came from Bailey's Nursery and except for the...

Thank you for all of the great suggestions. I just added on to my Menards shopping list.

Yes, this is fiberglass window screen. I didn't pay attention to what I grabbed at Menards. I will be heading back to the land to check on the trees in a week or two. I will be making the switch to aluminum window screens.

This trees came from a local nursery's bareroot sale. They get their trees from Bailey's Nursery. Chad

This past weekend I was able to get out and plant the apple trees I ordered. I planted 10 total trees and 8 varieties to see which ones take off. The ones I purchased are: (2) Honey Crisp, (2) Honeygold, Chestnut Crab apple, Wolf River, Snow Sweet, Frostbite, Zester, and Red Regent. The...

Not the greatest picture, but I had similar results. I put out 3 exclusion cages around our plot and each cage had similar results. The cages helped temper my emotions by proving the soil isn't complete garbage and is truly capable of growing something other than quack grass and clover. Due...

See picture below from Reits Garden Centers Facebook page from the 2019 bareroot sale and they appear to be apple trees from what I can see of their tags. I will be checking our Albrechts nursery. They are located just down the road from my dads house. If anyone gets a pricing sheet please share.

Weston, not sure how far from Stanley you are but I’m planning to purchase trees from Reits Garden Center. http://www.reitsgardencenter.com/. Based on what I’ve seen they have trees for the 4b/4c zone. I also found out they have a bareroot sale near the end of April for $27(2019 cost) per tree...

Thank you all of the great tips so far. Please keep them coming. I'm definitely going to be changing the notes that I have so far.

I'm starting to put my thoughts and ideas together of what types of apple trees I'm going to plant as well as the materials I'm going to need. I've based on the materials list on discussion posts from this website, articles, and YouTube videos. Is there anything significant that i'm missing...