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Surfactant lowers the surface tension of water. It makes the water (and herbicide with it) flatten out on the waxy leaves instead of rolling off the leaves like the waxy surface is repelling it. image is swiped via google, showing what a surfactant does. You'll find coments like "a...

thanks! At lunch I went and got a couple jugs.

Perhaps we could build unity around acknowledging that neither the first black nor the first orange president helped unite the country? (just keeping it snarky for the meme thread 😉)

Which chipper did you get? Does it have hydraulic feed? We got one with hydraulic feed a few years ago. It works ok on my little tractor but I wouldn’t mind more power.

Clearly yes, because we got pictures of it!

union cat?

(Saturday) I got a Komatsu D21S dozer. More specifically its a "track loader" - a dozer with a scoop on the front.

They still have them in stock, shipping now. (link) Hazelnuts are $1.17 per plant in units of 10 plants, $0.70 each if getting 25-75, and $0.58 if getting >100. That's typical pricing for them, though some plants are more or less. Plan on getting either 10 of something, or a multiple of 25...

for some reason Misouri cons. dept left a couple things out of last week's order, so they sent them this week. Last night we went down after work & planted the rest of the order: 10 hazelnut (with short tubes & cages), 10 buttonbush (in the creek for erosion control)

It is a long term work in progress. I've had ideas in mind for a couple years or so. I'm progressing inrecementally as I prove various ideas as good or bad. Last year a lighting strike fried some of my cat6 network cable going from the blind to POE cameras I use for trail cameras. While...

Another thing I did yesterday: installed a WiFi connected smart switch in my deer blind. It powers a sump pump in the creek to irrigate the clover by my blind. So now on sunny days when the batteries are fully charged I can use my phone to turn on the water for a few hours

Here's these cheap fiberglass rods cut in half (24") to support short tubes, and full length to support a fence wire cage. If the deer want to remove the cage they can. Each year I have 1-3 lifted off the stakes and tossed around when the bucks are rubbing. Other than that, they leave them...

Today we planted: 10 pitch/loblolly pines (replacing dead ones in existing cages; its a 2' hardware cloth rodent cage + 4' fence wire deer cage) 50 eastern red cedar (no protection, for screening property lines) 25 sandhill plum (1.5' drain pipe tubes + cages) 25 smooth sumac (2' tubes, no...