Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Beautiful pic of your surroundings and that sunset! Plan came together. Great buck too - lots of character on that one. He'll make a nice wall-mount.
The Little Woods
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H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Quick update on this property
Deer along side of woods the other day.
Nice buck along back of woods last month.
Getting daytime pics of yotes on backside of woods, going to have to thin them down very soon.
A very dark yote backside of woods, only the second I’ve ever seen this black. Shot one like it ten years ago and made a nice wall hang out of it.
Youngest son did a little ice fishing on the pond a couple weeks ago, I was pleased at the growth on the fish.
Darcy pointing a bunny under one of the black hill spruce along pond.
Had our annual bunny hunt here today, ran two beagles it was crazy. Bunnies everywhere, could have shot twice as many easy.
Pic of two of my long time hunting buddies with a tailgate full of bunnies, the dogs were in beagle heaven this morning. This woods has always been great for rabbits for some reason.
I think it was good to thin them down, saw a lot of chewed up small trees.
Deer along side of woods the other day.
Nice buck along back of woods last month.
Getting daytime pics of yotes on backside of woods, going to have to thin them down very soon.
A very dark yote backside of woods, only the second I’ve ever seen this black. Shot one like it ten years ago and made a nice wall hang out of it.
Youngest son did a little ice fishing on the pond a couple weeks ago, I was pleased at the growth on the fish.
Darcy pointing a bunny under one of the black hill spruce along pond.
Had our annual bunny hunt here today, ran two beagles it was crazy. Bunnies everywhere, could have shot twice as many easy.
Pic of two of my long time hunting buddies with a tailgate full of bunnies, the dogs were in beagle heaven this morning. This woods has always been great for rabbits for some reason.
I think it was good to thin them down, saw a lot of chewed up small trees.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Lookin' good on all fronts. Rabbits seem to like your place!
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Was just looking at Google Earth to see if the Gulf of America thing was real…(it is).
Went ahead and looked at our home place and the update shows the pond and barn now!
We are living in the barn, it has an 1800 sq ft loft apartment in it.
Our house will be going in between barn and woods facing pond, we will start building next spring. We have our contractor and house plans all lined up.
So this is what it looks like from above, I also have a lifetime lease on the hunting rights to field on the right, deer bed quite a bit on south end of the field in CRP.
Three different groups of townies deer hunt the left side of the creek to south. That is why I leased the field up to keep them plenty far off me.
And the CRP has potential.
Went ahead and looked at our home place and the update shows the pond and barn now!
We are living in the barn, it has an 1800 sq ft loft apartment in it.
Our house will be going in between barn and woods facing pond, we will start building next spring. We have our contractor and house plans all lined up.
So this is what it looks like from above, I also have a lifetime lease on the hunting rights to field on the right, deer bed quite a bit on south end of the field in CRP.
Three different groups of townies deer hunt the left side of the creek to south. That is why I leased the field up to keep them plenty far off me.
And the CRP has potential.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Rented eleven thousands pounds of skid steer with a bush hog attachment yesterday to push the front of the woods back 20’-30’.
Was getting way to many little dogwoods and various trees, shrubs/briars creeping out into what used to be a CRP strip ten years ago.
The wife also wants some variety of hard maple trees planted along the woods like sugar and red to add some nice fall colors to the browns of hickory/oak/walnut/cherry that are just pretty much brown in fall.
The skid steer was a beast! Quite the learning curve for me being used to our old skid loader at the farm thirty years ago.
This new one was full of computer gadgets and controls.
Seeded grass in when I was done, supposed to get some rain the next four days.
Now it just picking up sticks, planting mama’s trees and mowing this area.
Was getting way to many little dogwoods and various trees, shrubs/briars creeping out into what used to be a CRP strip ten years ago.
The wife also wants some variety of hard maple trees planted along the woods like sugar and red to add some nice fall colors to the browns of hickory/oak/walnut/cherry that are just pretty much brown in fall.
The skid steer was a beast! Quite the learning curve for me being used to our old skid loader at the farm thirty years ago.
This new one was full of computer gadgets and controls.
Seeded grass in when I was done, supposed to get some rain the next four days.
Now it just picking up sticks, planting mama’s trees and mowing this area.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Oh no!!!!!!!
I want to hear the story on that, how did you even get him out of it?
Did he get hurt, or the machine?
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
It looks like that brush cutter is buried all the way to the arms!
T-Max
5 year old buck +
We have a 242D. I always wondered what the bottom looked like…
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marlin
5 year old buck +
He’s a lucky man. My first thought was what if it would’ve caught fire while he was trapped inside. I’m not trying to be mean I know everybody has seen a person that is not smooth with hydraulics. He had the machine for a week and I saw him doing some work and every movement was jerky. He was on a little bit of a down slope and raised the cutter too high. He was trapped inside for over two hours. Finally after multiple attempts I called a tow truck and it pulled upright fairly easy. Machine was fine. He was bruised up on his ankle and arms and would not get back in the machine to take it to his house. I drove it to house for him and he called the rental company and had it picked up.
Howboutthemdawgs
5 year old buck +
That’s wild and scary. Im pretty sure the back glass is an emergency glass that can be taken out for issues like that. Mine does but it’s a bigger machine, not sure if that matters
I knew a guy who slid into a lake in a cabbed tractor. Luckily kicked the glass out
H20 that’s cool you set back that woody vegetation. I’ve been wanting to rent a disc mulcher for a long time and take a week off and go to town!
I knew a guy who slid into a lake in a cabbed tractor. Luckily kicked the glass out
H20 that’s cool you set back that woody vegetation. I’ve been wanting to rent a disc mulcher for a long time and take a week off and go to town!
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Just a tip here if you don't want maple "helicopters" spreading all over your strips / field / home area. There are several male-clone seedless types on the market. They're red maples. "Sun Valley" and "Autumn Spire" are 2 really good ones. Autumn Spire originated in Minnesota, so it'll take cold. I have one in our front yard for about 9 years now - no helicopter seeds, and spectacular fall color - bright red. We have several Sun Valley red maples at camp in the lawn there. No seeds and brilliant orange-ish red fall color. There are other red maple varieties that are seedless that can be found in a search bar typing, "Seedless Red Maple varieties."
If seeds & rogue seedlings don't matter, "Red Sunset" is tough to beat for color. It makes lots of seeds.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Thanks for tip Bows!
I’ll look into a couple of those varieties, I’ve already got fifteen nice 4’ sized whips here in a box from ColdStream out of Michigan.
Where I’m planting them the spinners should be an issue they will be fifty yards or better from our actual front yard and thirty yards or more from the pond.
Them self seeding into the woods would be fine and add more nice fall colors.
The seedless varieties would be good if she decides she wants any trees close to the house or barn. She is all about the fall bright reds, oranges and canary yellows that maples get in fall. Everything in our woods here is pretty dull, mostly just varying shades of brown.
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
A few pics of this summer’s progress.
Backside of the spoil pile along back of pond from woods to road We over seeded native grasses in between hill and property line, have planted nine chestnuts, four persimmons, three pecans and then back behind bee boxes a couple dozen of each of native plums and hazelnuts.
I didn’t want to just have a barren mowed area, goal is to have it attach to woods and be thick providing some wind block and place for wildlife.
View from the road to east of us. Next year this time our under construction house will be sitting between the woods and barn facing the pond. The area the barns sits on and house will was built up four feet higher than surrounding area with dirt from the pond project.
Panoramic of the new home orchard between woods and pond. I will be mowing all the way up to the woods next year, still need to clean up some from the bush hogging this spring.
Backside of the spoil pile along back of pond from woods to road We over seeded native grasses in between hill and property line, have planted nine chestnuts, four persimmons, three pecans and then back behind bee boxes a couple dozen of each of native plums and hazelnuts.
I didn’t want to just have a barren mowed area, goal is to have it attach to woods and be thick providing some wind block and place for wildlife.
View from the road to east of us. Next year this time our under construction house will be sitting between the woods and barn facing the pond. The area the barns sits on and house will was built up four feet higher than surrounding area with dirt from the pond project.
Panoramic of the new home orchard between woods and pond. I will be mowing all the way up to the woods next year, still need to clean up some from the bush hogging this spring.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Dandy place, H20. Lots of great things growing there. Be tough to look out from the new house on all that property .......... 
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Some of the fruit trees on this farm.
Briar Lane on antonovka rootstock, I’ve got a few of these over at the other farm. Nickle size apples with a slow drop all through winter into March.
Noticed this variety a few houses down from me at our old house. It was loaded every year, good DR, dropped fruit steady all winter long and every rabbit in the neighborhood was under it daily along with ducks and birds all through winter.
The street the mother tree is on is Briar Lane hence the name.
Have it planted about thirty yards from where our bedroom window will be, looking forward to the winter action under it.
30-06 in front orchard also on antonovka rootstock
First Winter Banana, family is looking forward to trying this one.
First ever Pink Pearl, very tasty apple
Zumi crab is loaded in back orchard
One of my original 30-06 in back orchard loaded
The back orchard does not get the love the other two orchards get. Gets some attention in spring then it’s on its own. Just not that accessible to get to during summer. The raccoons really work it over, but the thirty or so fruit trees there are thriving.
A lot of milkweed along the back of woods, will collect pods and spread seed behind the hill on backside of pond in the native grasses this fall.
Also plenty of wildflowers all along outside edges of woods to keep the bees busy.
Briar Lane on antonovka rootstock, I’ve got a few of these over at the other farm. Nickle size apples with a slow drop all through winter into March.
Noticed this variety a few houses down from me at our old house. It was loaded every year, good DR, dropped fruit steady all winter long and every rabbit in the neighborhood was under it daily along with ducks and birds all through winter.
The street the mother tree is on is Briar Lane hence the name.
Have it planted about thirty yards from where our bedroom window will be, looking forward to the winter action under it.
30-06 in front orchard also on antonovka rootstock
First Winter Banana, family is looking forward to trying this one.
First ever Pink Pearl, very tasty apple
Zumi crab is loaded in back orchard
One of my original 30-06 in back orchard loaded
The back orchard does not get the love the other two orchards get. Gets some attention in spring then it’s on its own. Just not that accessible to get to during summer. The raccoons really work it over, but the thirty or so fruit trees there are thriving.
A lot of milkweed along the back of woods, will collect pods and spread seed behind the hill on backside of pond in the native grasses this fall.
Also plenty of wildflowers all along outside edges of woods to keep the bees busy.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Great idea with the milkweed!! We baby 'em here too. Monarchs need them big-time.
You're gonna have so much critter activity there. Looking out the windows will be a treat all year long, I'd say. You have mega-variety in all your plantings, H20. Good opportunities for pic-taking ...... even in the winter. Are the young ones taking all this in??
H20fwler
5 year old buck +
Thanks Bows
They sure are!
Had them over this afternoon and they really enjoyed the pond. Went over to the other farm and picked all the peaches they could reach also two pear trees are ripe so picked a bucket full of them too. No shortage of taste testers today.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Heck yea! Looks like a great place to spend a Summer's day (the pond that is). You will be able to enjoy all of it all year round.
