The Little Woods

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.
 
Quick update on this property
Deer along side of woods the other day.
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Nice buck along back of woods last month.

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Getting daytime pics of yotes on backside of woods, going to have to thin them down very soon.
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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.
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Youngest son did a little ice fishing on the pond a couple weeks ago, I was pleased at the growth on the fish.
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Darcy pointing a bunny under one of the black hill spruce along pond.
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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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Lookin' good on all fronts. Rabbits seem to like your place!
 
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.
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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.

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My neighbor also rented a machine a couple weeks ago. I got a phone call from him stuck inside the machine. This is what it looked like when I got there…….

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?
 
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My neighbor also rented a machine a couple weeks ago. I got a phone call from him stuck inside the machine. This is what it looked like when I got there…….

We have a 242D. I always wondered what the bottom looked like…


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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
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.
 
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!
 
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.

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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.
 
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