Recent content by Gravel Road

I cannot abide by the politics that have taken over this forum. There are several good people on this forum and I will say "thank you" to them for the camaraderie and information over the years. @Bill , feel free to delete my account. Thanks.

A good barbed wire fence is ridiculously expensive to have built around here. Since your ground sounds open and not rocky, you could build it yourself. It is a ton of work, especially by yourself. Catscratch had a lot of great info. Absolutely wear safety glasses. That coiled wire springs back...

Get rid of those beavers before they start tunneling into the dike. They nearly destroyed my neighbors large pond with their tunnels.

Great, another thing to try 😄

Sounds sort of like eastern red cedar. It starts off a purple and goes brown in the light.

No kidding. It's also on my list now.

Cool idea. A lucky charm for a big buck

Agreed. It probably would look better as a wall hanging, but not sure yet. Was going to do a long diagonal cut of hedge for a pedestal, but didn't think the wood color would work.

So, if you follow the Catscratch Land Tour thread you probably already saw his driftwood duck carving. I mentioned that it was really cool and looked similar to a 33,000 year old mammoth carving that had been in the news. Imagine my surprise when it showed up in the mail a few weeks later...

That Oregon sharpener looks like it works very well. I'm pretty good with a file, but it takes me a long time and the results vary. If it'll sharpen a chain after cutting old hedge, I'm sold 🙂

Wow, those are doing great! Only one of mine from 2021 had fruit for the first time (Road Kill). None of the 2022's had fruit yet either. I'm thinking next year should have quite a few first timers. I pruned mine probably harder than I should have, so maybe that's the difference.

How old is that deer? He looks like he has a bit of a gut and in the other pic he's really high in the back end like an older buck. I'm not used to looking at summer coat bucks, especially in the south areas, so curious if he is older?

I started with an ATV and added the SXS a few years later. Still have both, but the ATV has been relegated to driveway spraying around the house with a little spray tank. A half day spraying pasture with the ATV would wear my ass out trying to turn with one hand and holding a wand in the other...

Walked about 20 yards into some thick stuff to check out a paw paw grove and had a dozen or so tiny ticks on me. Ridiculous. Luckily I had on permethrin soaked clothes. Later, there were two that had attached under my shirt, but they were dead.

You might want to take a look at this thread about the documented success of the 223 on game. It's an eye opener. https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/223-for-bear-mountain-goat-deer-elk-and-moose.130488/